Finder poppin' good.
Sweet mother of crap. After several years in software stasis (and quite frankly stating that he wasn't even working on Macs anymore...) the indubitably talented Turly has resurfaced with an OS X savvy version of FinderPop. This contextual menu extension still makes my life more pleasant during those regressions back to OS 9 and Classic mode. To have even a portion of FinderPop's functionality available in Tiger has me doing little happy dances around my desk. No, really... it's that useful. As Turly states: "... it's the mutt's nads." Download the beta, give it a whirl and then buy Turly a pint of Beamish.
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Oh, stop complaining.
Yes, I realize that the term 'week' means every seven days, not once per month. I promise to keep this in mind for future updates provided that you take special notice of the fact that the available domain name of the week is bitchnot.com
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Acronymoniously yours.
Government agencies are known for their innate ability to communicate the simplest bit of information as unabridged as possible - and Canada is absolutely no exception. Considering that all things within the mighty realm of the Canadian government must be bilingually represented, even the acronyms suffer from severe alphabetic overextension. For an example of how bureaucratic a public facing web address can get, look no further than the Tides, Currents, and Water Levels / Marées, Courants et Niveaux D'eau site run by the Canadian Hydrographic Service (CHS) / Service Hydrographique du Canada (SHC) branch of the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) / Ministère des Pêches et Océans Canada (MPO).
http://www.lau.chs-shc.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/
Simple to type. Easy to remember. And somewhere in Ottawa, a public servant just won the interoffice pangram pool. Fortunately, there's also a refreshingly plain-English address for this site, but guess which one shows up first in Google?
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Applesopht.
Stewart Smith (working under the canopy of the brilliant Stewdio) has taken two things I enjoy and mashed them together in a simply wonderful way. Frankly, this is one of those things you wish you had thought up yourself. This home-brew video for a song from Grandaddy's The Sophtware Slump album uses a vintage Apple II to animate the lyrics of Jed's Other Poem.
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Unsane, unsane again.
A happy belated number five to the kids over at Unsanity. Their dedicated w00tness has helped me keep my own sanity in check during the bumps and grinds transitioning to OS X. Keep them haxies rolling.
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I see London. I see France.
I see Newton's underpants. Well, perhaps not underpants. Underpinnings, maybe. Invigorated by this thread on the NewtonTalk mailing list, I somehow decided it would be good idea to post and annotate an x-ray image of a MessagePad. It's partly an exercise in technical documentation, but it's also pure, green-bleeding geekiness. Come on, admit it... you would've done the same thing.
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