Pure Cheesecake -- Wonder Woman Galleries

Joel Thingvall's WW Gallery (many contributors)
Al Rio's WW art.

Spotlight (OS X Tiger's Search Utility) Tips and Tricks

Tips and reviews for using the OS X Tiger Search Utility.
MacInTouch

NEW as of May 23rd: Advanced Spotlight tips
ScribeNT

Weblogs I occassionally read...

• Chris Pirillo: Windows enthusiast. Bought an iMac. Otherwise, he's a smart guy.
  
  
• Erik J. Barzeski: Gun nut. Mac nut. Continues to obnoxiously replace his homepage with an illustration of an orange. But at least he appreciates beautiful things.

Spammers are evil: Volume I

Why is Sober so successful?
Here's the analysis!

And how they're trying to thwart anti-virus & anti-malware utilities.

Useful Mac Tip -- Free Widgets from Purgatory

In the hundreds of thousands of posts web loggers have logged about Apple, it's damn difficult to find actual useful and interesting information. More often than not, it's kindergarten-stle taunts against Microsoft or folks who use Windows PCs, or near delusive hope that the white knight Apple will topple the Microsoft-Intel kingdom. But if you dig hard, you can find useful information. Search developer blogs.

For example, here's one that brings Konfabulator-style functionality to Dashboard (which if Apple is honest, they'd admit that Konfab was their inspiration to Dashboard). Currently, Dashboard widgets are confined to a special purgatory that is enterable by pressing F12 (or whatever you configured your Dashboard key to be). If you want to raise Dashboard widgets to the level of the living (where all the other desktop applications lie), follow these instructions which I pulled from MacDevCenter.

Want to move a widget to the main window layer? Of course you do. Here's how: go to Terminal and type the command defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode YES. Still in Terminal, type killall Dock to restart Dashboard (and the Dock). Activate Dashboard (by default, you do that by pressing F12). Find the widget you want to put on the main layer and drag it a bit, but don't let go of the mouse button. While you're still holding the mouse button down, press the Dashboard keystroke again and release it, then release the mouse button. Your widget should now be floating above the Desktop and windows.

This is a scratch blog. Yet I have a backup scratch blog. Why don't I just use pen and paper?

This here is a scratch blog. It is just a dumping place for links I found, but I don't feel like wrapping around paragraphs and paragraphs of explanation, opinion, background or further information. In other words, it's a web log in its barest form. Yet, I have discovered Blogger is occassionally unreliable. Understand, it's huge and it is the favored home for "zombie-blogs", web logs produced with some automated tool, that only contain links either spidered off of other search engines, or links to some master blog. These are usually attempts to scam Google's page rank algorithm -- which helps them get higher page view numbers to scam ad sellers -- or they scam AdSense directly. So Blogger will go down occassionally.

Thus I have a second scratch blog with a similar title as this one, "Still Doing This on Tuesday".

Over there, there's one post, a link to an investigative report by Michael Bell on Maui X-Stream, the company most famous for claiming they've built a PowerPC emulator in four months, but pulling the product three or four times after people found evidence that they plagerized code from the Open Source project PearPC. It appears Maui X-Stream's other products have similarly plagerized code from other open source projects.

Now, I have five weblogs to my name, three of which I update regularly, one which I've abandoned. No wonder I feel burned out.