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Spot The Difference
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To celebrate the 20 years of the Macintosh, Apple have released a very
slightly different version of everyone's favourite Superbowl
commercial.
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Small but Useful
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Raging Menace has a bunch of little
Mac OS X programs by Alex Harper, and very useful they are too. SideTrack is a replacement
driver that lets iBook and PowerBook users reconfigure the trackpad to provide
scrolling areas, tap-to-right-click and on. MenuMeters provides a set of
neat meters for memory, CPU usage and so on, that don't take up much screen
real estate; I've found it particularly useful to confirm that it is indeed
more memory that I need, not a faster processor (when the paging indicator
goes off the scale, that's a hint). I'll probably have a look at SleepTight at some point
too. It gives Jaguar the Panther-like functionality to lock the screen when
the machine sleeps. Handy when you're carting the machine round, but I'm only
using the iBook at home at the moment, so I don't really need it just yet.
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Mmm... Blowfish...
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After looking for ages, I've recently found
SSHKeychain, an
Aqua-integrated ssh-agent thaat works the way I want it to. Other agents have
done the job adequately, but SSHKeychain has a bunch of little features that
make it stand out from the crowd. It'll run in the menubar (so it doesn't take
up space in the dock), but more importantly it makes use of the Keychain. Not
only can you store your passphrases in there, but the agent can forget keys
when the machine sleeps, and ask you for the (Keychain) passphrase on wake, or
the next time the agent is accessed.
Now I just need to get round to sorting out an on-demand wrapper for SSH
tunnels...
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Yikes
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Follow the links in a MacSlash
story about web badges, I ended up skimming Apple's
Guidlines for Using Apple Trademarks and Copyrights, and noticed
the following, fairly broad, prohibition:
3. Variations, Takeoffs or Abbreviations: You may not
use an image of a real apple or other variation of the Apple logo
for any purpose.
"Any purpose". Thousand's of unimaginative still-life painters must
be quaking in their boots.
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