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TOPICS: Admin, Elsewhere, Tips

Sleep apnea and attention deficit

Sleep apnea and attention deficit

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Tinderbox Weekend talk: Slides and links posted

Tinderbox Weekend 2005

I've posted the slides from my talk today at Tinderbox Weekend along with links to some of the posts and cool applications I mentioned.

Thanks to all the participants for great questions and conversations.

Collection of our MacBreak Weekly application links

Oh, man, I'm so glad someone is doing this. If you want to see the apps we recommend each week on MacBreak Weekly, now you're good to go:

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43F Board upgraded (big time)

43 Folders Board - Powered by vBulletin

This is just a quick programming note to let you know that the 43 Folders Board just got a posh new upgrade to vBulletin. In addition to being much easier for me to maintain (and much more scaleable, searchable, AJAX-inated, blah blah blah), vBulletin's also got some spiffy features for users. For example, it should now be much easier to navigate threads and keep track of where new and interesting stuff is happening. (Like it needs my endorsement, I'll just say vBulletin is far and away the most powerful and feature-rich messageboard I've used).

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TOPICS: Admin, Elsewhere

Finally... a Finder replacement even I can love!

http://www.ironicsoftware.com/leap/index.html

Wow... trust me, just stop what you are doing, download the Leap Beta and spend 15 minutes playing around. Not sure what the performance will be on older machines, but it works great on the MBP 2.2GHz with 2GB of RAM. With apps like this, Leopard's new Finder seems less necessary than it did before.

Tagging, a better Get Info that shows all metadata, Spotlight integration, great options in the right-click menu, etc....

Enjoy!

Peace, Todd Russell http://groovechickenstudios.com

LazyWeb: Library Book RSS Feed?

How about an RSS feed of my public library account? Books out, books overdue, and books on request.

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Hipster PDA Hack

How often do you find yourself at an office door, wishing you could leave a note to describe you've been there? There are many situations where having a post-it handy would be, well, awfully handy. With a simple hack of your hipster PDA, you can have this power at all times!

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TOPICS: Lofi, Hipster PDA

43 Folders @ OS X Con

Danny O'Brien and I will be presenting at O'Reilly's OS X Con in Santa Clara this month. “Life Hacks” and “43 Folders” taste great together.

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Blacktree 'account suspended'...anyone know about this?

A friend of mine just performed a clean install of leopard, and then went to get Quicksilver...but Blacktree is down....

http://quicksilver.blacktree.com

suspended acct. is the reason...does anyone know anything about this? thanks for the help.

 
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