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This looks awesome: SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad (touchpad) found on Apple PowerBooks. It brings many of the trackpad scrolling features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X. Most Windows laptops implement trackpad scrolling using drivers made by Synaptics. Although Apple PowerBooks also use custom Synaptics trackpads, the standard Apple driver uses […]

Great tip! cat /usr/share/calendar/* | grep `date +"%m/%d"` I've added that to my .tcshrc file. Good stuff. FWIW, my birthday is a pretty damn boring day: [10:51pm iacas@Gaia:~] % cat /usr/share/calendar/* | grep '03/23' 03/23* Maundy Thursday (3 days before Easter) 03/23 Pakistan Day in Pakistan

SpamSieve 2.0 is out, and it's got a loooooooooong list of changes. I won't go over them here - you can click the link for yourself. What I will say is "free?" This update is free to registered users of 1.x. Were I Michael Tsai, I'd have had a hard time deciding whether or not […]

I see that Xounds 2.0 is out. I was a big fan of the Interface sounds in Mac OS 9, and I used Xounds for awhile on X, but since removing all "haxies" I've got increased application stability and a tweak faster speed of operation. The only third-party stuff that shows up in my System […]

This script made short work of 58 "out of date" Adium log folders: property logsFolder : "Gaia:Users:iacas:Library:Application Support:Adium:Users:iacas:Logs" set cutoffDate to ( (current date) - (90 * days) ) tell application "Finder" set folderList to (folders of folder logsFolder) repeat with i from 1 to count of folderList set AliasPath to item i of folderList […]

Mail (the app) on Mac OS X uses standard mbox files to store its messages. Given this, how hard would it be to write a webmail client that literally served up your local mboxes. When I'm at a friend's house, how great would it be to log into my machine with a simple browser and […]

To quote codepoet: 20th Century Voyage is by far the best screen saver I've seen written for Mac OS X. Against a beautiful background of two translucent Earths spinning counter to each other, all the major events of the 20th century are displayed (war, music, movies, politics, inventions, etc.) with random quotations from various history-makers. […]

SimCity 4 has been shipping for awhile for the Mac, but is now available at local stores. I think I'd like to pick up a copy, but I've got four jobs right now, and I think I should really concentrate on those instead. What to do, what to do… I still haven't even opened the […]

From Bill Bumgarner I found this: the Magical Macintosh Key Sequences. Useful indeed.

Today I made an AppleScript application. Then I put that AppleScript in the Applications folder and added it to my Login Items. Next, I copied my loginwindow.plist, removed the script from my Login Items, and pasted my loginwindow.plist over someone else's. The AppleScript? ignoring application responses   tell application "loginwindow" to «event aevtrlgo» end ignoring Immediately […]

Heh heh heh: The human eye can only really see about 60 fps. I chuckle when I see things like this. Yeah, I know they're useful as "benchmarks" of some sort or another, but they're still pretty funny. Heck, some of my console games don't consistently hit 60 fps, and soon I'll have a machine […]

Not quite, but if you want every commercial release of BBEdit, you can have it for $249 on a special collector's item type CD-ROM (ad spied at MacMinute.com): So, not only is this text editor over-priced at $149 (or whatever it costs these days), they actually think they'll sell a thousand copies of a CD-ROM […]

Unreal Tournament 2003 is out now, and I picked up my copy today. There's already a bug fix… for the installer! Some QA they have going on there, eh? What's worse is that it took me fifteen tries or so to get the installer to run at all, because my installer was crashing just after […]

I got my copy of Final Cut Pro 4 yesterday when I returned from California. I've installed it, but haven't launched it yet. I have, however, launched Soundtrack, an app a friend of mine is working on as an intern with Apple this summer. I've played with it only a little, but so far I […]

Today I unstuffed (several hundred megabytes) of data from .sit and .sitx archives and rearchived them as .dmg archives. StuffIt Deluxe offers one nice feature that Disk Copy doesn't: the ability to extract a single file without expanding the whole archive (similar to "mounting" the whole DMG). I won't always have StuffIt Deluxe and sometimes […]