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I use the really great macFUSE to mount several server directories via SSH on my work computer. One programm that makes this process really easy is Macfusion which offers a menu item and a standalone application to configure your mountpoints and mount/unmount them.

After upgrading to Snow Leopard recently Macfusion & macFUSE stopped working, so I was searching for a solution and luckily found one at Racker Hacker - Fix MacFusion on Snow Leopard.

Now I’m happily developing my PHP projects again in Netbeans with my remote dirs mounted via SSH

GrowlMail no longer works under Snow Leopard.
Here’s a work-around:
http://www.cupcakewithsprinkles.com/growl-notifications-for-apple-mail-on-mac-os-x-snow-leopard-10-6/

Finally! Colloquy, my IRC client of choice for Mac OS X came out as a mobile version for the iPhone. For a mere 1,59€ (in the Austrian App Store) you’ll get a full featured, slick IRC client on your handheld device.

via First Look: Mobile Colloquy - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).

Either I’ve never recognized it before, or Apple published this new feature with their latest OS X update.

There is now a Media category in the standard OS file chooser that lets you choose movies, pictures and music, pulling it straight from the respective iApp’s library (iTunes, iPhoto etc.). I think this is a really helpful addition. Thanks Apple for making OS X a bit better again

The Media category in the OS X file chooser

Apple Mail under OS X Leopard doesn’t support the GrowlMail Mailbundle which comes as an extra when installing the Growl notificaiton framework. Since I really missed that feature, that has been with me as long as I own a Mac, I searched around the WWW to find a solution.
Luckily there is a way:

• Quit Apple Mail
• Download the Growl .dmg from its website and install GrowlMail
• Launch the Terminal
• Enter the following two commands
  defaults write com.apple.mail EnableBundles -bool YES
  defaults write com.apple.mail BundleCompatibilityVersion -int 3
• Start Apple Mail and enable the GrowlMail plugin
• Be happy ever after

via: blimps are cool

Wow, I guess I never got so many comments on one of my posts in such a short time. Thank you for participating and especially thank you for pointing out how to get rid of some of the points I listed in my previous post about Leopard quirks.

Here are the amendments:

• Cmd+Shift+Tab still works - Apple merely removed the ability to cycle in the task switcher with the arrow keys. The other way still works the same. Thank you to all of the people who stated that!
• Mounted network volumes on the Desktop - Those can be enabled in the Finder’s preferences under “General”. Thanks to John and Bruno Rodrigues for guiding me in the right direction.

Also re-read the previous post, I just added one more bullet concerning the iTunes Artwork screensaver.