Entries from November 2006

Inquisitor 3.0 beta 2 released

Date November 28, 2006

Inquisitor 3.0 Beta 2 is Safari plugin that provides enhanced web searching experience by learning from your use of it over the time, and then tailoring the experience to suit you best.
Websites that you’ve visited before are flagged and prioritized and search keywords you’ve used recently show up ahead of the rest. Best of all, [...]

Say - a cool terminal command

Date November 26, 2006

Another jaw-dropping feature of Mac OS X when showing off to your friends - open the Terminal (~/Applications/Utilities/Terminal ) and type say command, followed by any text.

For example type: say I like silvermac and press return. Your computer promptly does what you asked it do do, it says I like silvermac.
[tags]OSX, terminal, cool, say[/tags]

Gmail interface updates

Date November 22, 2006

I’ve just set up ‘Google Apps for Your Domain‘ for my domain and noticed some changes in Gmail interface. I compared this to my ‘normal’ Gmail account and it looks different indeed. It’s not a great deal of changes but it looks very nice and it works great.
Firstly, there is a ‘Reply’ button on [...]

MacWorld San Francisco 2007 prediction

Date November 21, 2006

On the 8th of January 2007 Steve Jobs will open the MacWorld with one of his famous keynotes. He already promised that the next year will be one of, if not the most exciting year of new Apple products.
So what’s in the pipeline? Here is my prediction, based on a very unreliable source called world [...]

BSOD on your Mac

Date November 20, 2006

Don’t you ever wish that you could get your Mac to crash like a Windows machine? Of course not, but the guys from ParaMac Software have just created a screensaver for your ‘convenience’.

This screensaver will not crash your Mac. It will not give you Windows. It will not hurt your cat, dog, family member, or [...]

Hiding LaunchBar 4 in your Dock

Date November 19, 2006

I just helped a friend to install LaunchBar 4 on his Mac and he wanted to run it invisible, but for some reason it just kept coming back.
I searched the internet forums and the way to do this is to add a few lines to a plist.info
Close LaunchBar and then locate it in your Finder. [...]