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When you download a .dmg that contains an application, Safari ((I'm using the 3.0 beta on 10.4.10)) warns you that it "may contain an application." You're given two buttons: "Cancel" and "Continue".

It annoys me that, when you choose "Cancel," what appears to be a worthless ".download" file remains in your Downloads folder. You can double-click it to "complete" the download ((It's actually already completed; if you look inside the .download package, the full .dmg file is inside.)).

This strikes me as both a potential security risk ((I clicked "Cancel" for a reason, after all - It shouldn't be so easy to "get" the full .dmg again.)) and a clutter issue: why keep stuff I've "canceled"? I didn't "stop" or "pause" the download - I canceled it. Delete the stupid ".download" file too!

Which of the 300 new features in Leopard do you care about more than the others?

Woot! Steve speaketh.

Today I accidentally hit shift-cmd-U. Opera - yeah, that Opera - launched.

I quit Opera and looked in my Applications folder for a copy. Failing to find one, I performed a search. I threw away a few Opera preferences folders but found no Opera application.

So I hit shift-cmd-U again… and used the dock menu to locate Opera. Here's where I found it:

/Applications/Adobe Bridge CS3/Bridge CS3/Contents/MacOS/Opera

WTF?

This is part of why, by the way, I hate the Services menu in its current form.

I pre-ordered Leopard on June 20, 2007 at Amazon.com. Today when I saw the price had dropped to $109 from $129, I checked my pre-order. It still said $129 and that it would ship on November 1-3.

So I cancelled my long-standing pre-order and ordered again - at $109 and with shipping on or before October 31.

Have you pre-ordered Leopard?

A few days ago our "new" dishwasher was installed. Today we had the proper model installed. 🙂

It turns out Lowe's sent the wrong one. It didn't have the "fancy" silverware tray, the adjustable-height top rack, the pot scrubber, the fancier styling (a handlebar front), and a few other features and whatnots.

When the refrigerator ((And why is it "fridge" but "refrigerator"? Where does the "d" come from?)) and range are installed I'm sure we'll be a lot more careful to check the model numbers. 😛

I mentioned a few days ago that Scorecard 1.2 was available. One of the new features is a web export that will automatically export your rounds to HTML. I export mine to my iDisk, which automatically synchronizes with my .Mac homepage: http://homepage.mac.com/iacas/Scorecard/.

Also, for a limited time, forum members at The Sand Trap can use the coupon code "SANDTRAP" to save 20% on Scorecard.

Our Windows version is coming along, and we hope to be in beta early next month.

With the release of TextExpander 2.0, I've made the switch from TypeIt4Me. I hung with Ti4M for its entire lifetime, but the developer is unresponsive at this time and TextExpander's feature set has surpassed TypeIt4Me's. They've made my previous comments about TypeIt4Me outdated.

Turns out TextExpander still can't do some of the things TypeIt4Me has done for quite awhile. Things like typing delete characters, moving the cursor, and so on. I use these features in TypeIt4Me just a little more frequently than I use the %selection% or %cursor% commands in TextExpander, so I've switched back to TypeIt4Me.

I'd never heard the song "Online" before but someone pointed it out on The Sand Trap forum. It's pretty funny.

That's all I have to say about that. 😉

Scorecard, a golf statistics program for Mac OS X, is now available at version 1.2.

Feature Highlights in Version 1.2:

• HTML export of rounds for displaying on the web.
• Deactivation of rounds for the statistics window to allow the user to focus on a time period or set of rounds.
• Printing of the statistics screen.
• Smart selection of the course when adding a new round based on play history.
• Statisics can now be based on all tees for a course.
• Undo support in the round and course entry sheets (Leopard only).

Various Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes:

• A possible crash when printing scorecards.
• Fixed an issue with registering if a previous registration failed.
• Fixed a bug that only occurs with the Safari 3 beta installed.
• Fixed a couple stat display errors.
• Fixed an issue where rounds were not updated correctly if the tee is edited.
• Miscellanious bug and performance issues.

More information on Scorecard is available at Cynical Peak.

I dislocated my shoulder in college playing racketball. I should dig up the X-Rays - they're kind of bizarre, what with my right arm coming out of my sternum and all.

So what's the general consensus on Heroes, season two?

I said after last season's conclusion that I wasn't sure I was going to watch this season.

I don't care about the Guatemalan people, Sylar, "the company," or any of that stuff.

Just recently, rather than sending my DVDs from NetFlix back to Pittsburgh, I've noticed that they instead go to PO Box 13001, Erie, PA 16514.

Cool.

WireTap Studio has been released. I competitively upgraded from Fission, which I never use, but will likely still use Audio Hijack Pro to continue to record the Golf Talk Podcasts. I've finally got a pretty good setup wherein I can record myself in one channel, the other hosts in another channel, and adjust the gain on each separately. It works quite nicely.

Until I figure out how to do that in WireTap Studio ((It may be quite easy. All I know at this point is that there's no tutorial for this specific purpose yet.)), I'll stick with AHP.

Oh, and I do almost all of my editing in SoundTrack Pro before using GarageBand just to add chapter markers and artwork and to produce the final AAC file. I'm not sure that'll change, either… Maybe?

I tend to use my PayPal account as "petty cash." If I do a quickie job for someone that pays $100, I'll dump $50 of it to my bank account from PayPal and leave the rest there to pay for some software or some iTunes or other things like that.

I'd like to set up my AdSense account so that it dumps money into my PayPal account rather than to my bank account, but that doesn't seem possible. Is it? Have I overlooked something? Can it be done?