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Fruitcake Dashboard

I really really love my wife. When she pulls up the dashboard on her computer, there is a fruitcake widget. 3 years ago, she downloaded it in honor of her computer’s first Christmas. We had been interacting with the dashboard widgets, including the whoopee cushion one, and we sat there for a few minutes trying to click the right part of this fruitcake-in-profile. Then, we realized that the fruitcake doesn’t do anything. It just sits there. Like a fruitcake. A big, heavy, dense fruitcake… that never expires. So that’s sitting there, and every time I see it, I’m happy.

KeyCue

KeyCue - Now this is brilliant: an application that shows you all the keyboard shortcuts for your current application. It’s like a little training program to help you use your computer faster … no more searching for shortcuts.

A very nice OS X theme

A very nice OS X theme - As usual, for when (if ever) I get a Mac.

So Leopard’s Delayed

I’m incredibly unconcerned that Leopard (Apple’s upcoming point revision of its OS X operating system) has been delayed. As long as they fix the finder (!!!!), I’ll have nothing really important to criticize in OS X.

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Make your Mac know when you return and leave

Make your Mac know when you return and leave - Here’s a nifty thing for those Mac users out there to try (not me, darnit). Anyway, using this nifty little hack, you can make your Mac pause your iTunes, set your iChat away status, turn on the screensaver, etc. when you walk away. This is done by detecting when your Bluetooth enabled phone is out of range.

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Watch the sun move over the earth on your desktop

Watch the sun move over the earth on your desktop - The great thing about this is how much information it conveys without any explanatory text. Everyone understands what’s going on, intuitively. Plus, it provides support for weather patterns. Gorgeous. I’m sure I’ll get this when I finally get a Mac.

Justification for tumbledry version 15 design decisions

Computers are most useful when they get out of our way. I recently realized that when I say I work with computers, people automatically peg me as that computer geek who loves hardware, spec sheets, and processors. Thing is, I only know about them in order to get these blasted machines to do what I want to do. I spend an inordinate amount of time shoehorning machines into working the way I think, so (pardoxically) I can stop worrying about shoehorning the machines into working the way I think. I’ve always seen Windows as a respectable software tool to deal with, but I must liken the experience to taming a wild stallion (without any of the glamorous trappings inherent in the animal analogy). Windows has to be poked, prodded, altered, trimmed, augmented, and examined from the top to the bottom and up again, to get it to do what you want it to do … when you want it to do it.

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Justin, do you understand this?

Justin, do you understand this? - There’s some humor here, but I think it’s over my head. Wait, I found some: there’s actually an application called “Chicken of the VNC.”

You know … Chicken of the Sea.

Tweak OS X

Tweak OS X - Mental note for when I get an Apple.

Docktopus

Docktopus - Stats on your dock. This is cool and I don’t even own a Mac!

Best OS X Third Party Software

Best OS X Third Party Software - What-a-list. I’ll be referring to this if I ever get a Mac.