I came across a very interesting geek debate on Digg, related to this story on BBC News.

More than 150 passengers and crew have been rescued from a stricken tourist ship after it hit ice off Antarctica. The M/S Explorer is now lying on its side close to the South Shetland Islands, in the Antarctic Ocean.
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If you are happy to do a little code editing, you can modify the labels in the sidebar of your Finder (Leopard only). You can change the labels to the lower case, e.g. from PLACES to Places, or you can completely rename them.

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If you don’t like the aqua style scrollbars in Leopard, there is a nice and easy way to change them to iTunes style, so they look like this:

Pierre Breteau of abitbol.org describes (via MacThemes) exactly how to do it. All you need to do is to replace the Extra2.rsrc for Intel Macs (or Extra.rsrc for [...]

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While Stacks are cool and easy to use, many Mac users feel robbed by not having an option of Applications folder being placed in the Dock. This is where Ross Carter comes to the rescue.
Ross has put his heart, soul, brain and, of course, his fingers to work together, and came up with an [...]

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Have you used Help in Leopard? Not yet? Well, I think you should, because it’s so cool. Go and try it now, it’s really fun.
Open Safari and, let’s assume you have no idea how to view the source of the web page, click on Help and type ‘view source‘

All other operating systems, including OS X [...]

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I just figured out how to move an application from one Space to another in a very easy way.
Let’s say you are working in Firefox in Space 1. You need  to drag and drop an image from iPhoto to Firefox, but iPhoto is in Space 2.
Simply click and drag your Firefox window to the right [...]

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