Oliver just released his latest creation. A Mac OS X Dashboard Widget that displays the album covers of your latest played songs via Last.fm. What I love most is that, when you click on one of the cover pictures the Widget displays some more info about that particular song and also lets you send the song details to Twitter 🙂
Download the Widget:
I’ve never thought much about Virtual Desktops in OS X although I have used it frequently on Linux Desktops and at the beginning in OS X Panther.
My thought always was: why more than one Desktop, when I’ve got Expos?. After watching the following video I might have changed my mind.
Virtual Desktops and Expos? seems to be the way to got!
See Spaces and Expos??of the upcoming OS X 10.5 Leopard in action:
Herbert pointed me at i use this. It’s very similar to digg.com but instead of news software is it’s main focus.
i use this lists software and lets you klick on a button if you use this software. It’s very easy to find new cool software for your mac, try it!
It even has a neat “blog this” button that lets you feature software you love in your blog 🙂
After nearly a year, and a bunch of new developers, the Mac OS X passive wireless stumbler KisMac has produced another stable release. It now includes passive mode stumbling on AirPort Extreme hardware, is a Universal binary for the benefit of people with Intel Macs, does Google Earth exporting, has many bugs fixed and much much more…
On my iBook passive monitoring mode works out of the box – perfect 🙂
I discovered that in addition to the open, unprotected network named “Netgear” in my neighborhood, there is also an unprotected WLAN which hides it’s SSID. Whatever the advantage of hiding SSID but not encrypting a WLAN is…
For a long time Mac OS X was the one platform left out when it comes to developing MIDlets. There where soultions from SUN for Windows, Linux & obviously Solaris. There was no official build for the amazing NetBeans Mobility Pack for the Mac … well, there still isn’t one but I looked around a bit in the gathered knowledge of mankind which is the WWW and found the blog of Lukas Hasik. He has a fairly well written documentation of how to achieve a working development environment on Mac OS X.
In this post I’d like to summarize the nessecary steps as well as make a few annotations where I ran into difficulties while following the described steps.