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Cage Fighter restores Mac OS X Mail to its former glory.

Daring Fireball: Translation from PR-Speak to English of selected portions of Adobe’s ‘FAQ’ regarding their acquisition of Macromedia.

register by june 10, 2005 and get a free exhibit hall pass to macworld expo. use priority code B0401.

forget pimp my ride, check out pimp my safari. i’ve already beeng using fiwt and PithHelmet. good stuff.

Paul Thurrott of WinSuperSite reviews Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger. He concludes (emphases mine):

The marketing that accompanies Tiger’s release is no different: Described by Apple as “a super-modern operating system” and “the newest major release of the world’s most advanced operating system,” Tiger will, in Apple’s words, “change the way you use a computer.” That, of course, is completely untrue. Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” is, in fact, a minor upgrade to an already well-designed and rock-solid operating system. It will not change the way you use your computer at all, and instead uses the exact same mouse and windows interface we’ve had since the first Mac debuted in 1984. That isn’t a complaint about Tiger, per se: It’s a high-quality release. My issue here is with marketing, not with reality.

i was upgrading a friend’s iMac G3* to Mac OS X 10.3.9 today. after we rebooted, he was stuck in open firmware. after i typed mac-boot at the prompt, it said default catch and refused to proceed any further.

the usual trick of
>set-defaults
>reset-all

did not help.

what did fix the problem was booting off the mac os x installer CD, selecting his hard drive in the startup disk application and restarting the machine.

* with a 20 GB hard drive, partitioned in to 8 and 12 GB partitions, as required.

Molly has a really good explanation of the legal issues involved in the Apple-vs-web sites (not really “bloggers”) suits:

The violation of non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) is - read this carefully - not a criminal act. This is why comparing the actions of those who might have violated a NDA and those who published the information to murderers and thieves is erroneous by the standards of U.S. law.

What may exist if a NDA is proven to have been breached is what is known as a tortious interference with business. Breach of a NDA may result in fines, or other civil ramifications, but most decidedly not criminal ones.

You see, here in the U.S. we aren’t supposed to mix our business interests (which are heavily regulated by the government already) with those civil liberties granted us via the Constitution and its amendments.

burnout menu 2 looks sweeeet.

cool hack that uses the motion sensor in your new powerbook to control iTunes.