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A survey of Dock substitutes and other launch utilities : Page 1 : Page 1
We’ll first take a look at four mainstream programs (Dock-It, DragStrip, DragThing, and Drop Drawers) and then an odd step-brother to these packages named Butler. All of these packages attempt to improve upon or replace the Dock in one way or another, so we here at Ars thought we’d give these options a good once-over. Let’s start with the most basic and progress to the most advanced, shall we?

winkflash ;)

– film quality prints from your digital camera – only 16? each!

Must. Send. Photos.

How to Use Alternative Roots – and why you should

How To Use New Domain Names
Got to check this out.

Taunt for Internet Advertisers
We know about your plans for the Internet. Although you won’t listen, we would like to point out how wrong you are now, so we can point out gleefully how right we were later.

According to a presentation given by Nicholas Negroponte at the Sheraton Hotel in downtown Toronto, called “The Information Age: Transforming Technology to Strategy,” here is what you Fat Corporate Bastards think we want:

1. Movies on demand (94% executive approval) 2. Home shopping (89% approval) 3. On-line video games (89% approval)

Here’s what you think we don’t want:

1. educational services 2. access to government information

Doug’s AppleScripts for iTunes -

ORSC Public Access DNS Nameservers

This seems as though it might be important, but I don’t know enough to be sure at this point. We’ll see.

TidBITS: How to Buy a Digital Camera

TidBITS: Sense & Sensors in Digital Photography

MacDevCenter.com: Fun iPod Tricks
An iPod is more than just a music player; it’s an Information device. Not only can you use your iPod to play music from your favorite singer or band, you can use it to listen to radio recordings, listen to “audio weblogs” (known as podcasts), and more. In this article I’ll show you some tips for getting the most out of your iPod. I’ll also explain how to manipulate the files stored on your iPod.

I’m showing off how to blog to this group of Doctoral Students. Ray Miller’s class, whom I see every two years or so, is always a challenging group. I get to rant and they think they’ve learned something. Everyone is happy.