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AppMenuBoy: "By David Phillip Oster, Google Mac Team

Back in the days of Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), you could drag your Applications folder to the Dock and get a nice menu of your applications there. If you had any folders in the applications folder, you'd get hierarchical submenus in the Dock's Applications menu.

Apple turned this feature off in Leopard (10.5), replacing it with a simpler, less capable version. It came back partially in 10.5.2, when Apple added a list view for the Applications menu and other folders you add to the Dock.

My application AppMenuBoy restores the Tiger behavior plus a little more: it shows only applications, follows aliases, and if a folder contains only an application, it silently 'hoists' that application in the menu so you don't have hierarchical menus that contain only a single icon.

The AppMenuBoy application is now featured on the Google Mac Developer Playground.

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(Via Official Google Mac Blog.)

OSX's Hidden Suck Animation: "

Taylor McNeil from www.mediapresstv.com shows you how to use OSX's hidden minimize animation called 'Suck'.

To enable the suck effect, enter the following commands in the terminal:

defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect suck

Killall Dock

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(Via MacMegasite.)

Gaiman on fair use: "Weighing in on JK Rowling and Warners' lawsuit against a fan-compiled concordance of the Harry Potterverse, Neil Gaiman (whose first two books were unauthorized nonfiction and relied heavily on fair use) describes the creative importance of the freedom of rip each other off in fantasy lit:

Back in November I was tracked down by a Scotsman journalist who had noticed the similarities between my Tim Hunter character and Harry Potter, and wanted a story. And I think I rather disappointed him by explaining that, no, I certainly *didn't* believe that Rowling had ripped off Books of Magic, that I doubted she'd read it and that it wouldn't matter if she had: I wasn't the first writer to create a young magician with potential, nor was Rowling the first to send one to school. It's not the ideas, it's what you do with them that matters.

Genre fiction, as Terry Pratchett has pointed out, is a stew. You take stuff out of the pot, you put stuff back. The stew bubbles on.

Link

(via Copyfight)

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(Via Boing Boing.)

Good Spaces Tip: "

Good tip from Nat Irons: Shift-drag a window in Spaces mode to consolidate all windows from that app in one space.

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(Via Daring Fireball.)

Is Vista dead in the water?: "Analysts from Gartner said earlier this week that Windows is collapsing under its own weight. Talk in the blogosphere keeps pointing to a Windows 7 release date earlier than 2010. Is Vista already a lame duck?"

(Via BetaNews.Com.)

Where by Cutting, They Mean ‘Increasing’: "

From an entry titled ‘Apple Cuts Expected Flash Memory Spending by $200M’, CNet’s Tom Krazit reports:

In February, iSuppli reported that Apple was slashing its orders
of flash memory amid a weakening economy, but iSuppli wasn’t sure
exactly how far the cuts would go. After crunching the numbers,
iSuppli now expects Apple to spend $1.4 billion on flash this year
for iPods and iPhones, up 12 percent from $1.2 billion last year.
But the analyst firm, and the flash memory industry, had been
expecting much more purchasing out of Apple, at least $1.6 billion.

And:

Plunging flash memory prices are expected to dent Intel’s first
quarter, among other companies likely to be affected.

So, component prices for flash memory are ‘plunging’ and Apple is still spending 12 percent more on flash memory than last year, and yet this somehow constitutes a ‘cut’ because the increase is less than the number iSuppli — whose track record regarding Apple component analysis wavers between ‘wrong’ and ‘really wrong’ — simply made up out of thin air a few weeks ago. iSuppli’s original report in February claimed Apple was outright cutting flash memory orders — not just spending — year over year.

Krazit and CNet should know better than this. When has iSuppli ever reported something interesting about Apple that turned out to be true?

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(Via Daring Fireball.)

Arthur C. Clarke: "'The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.'

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(Via Motivational Quotes of the Day.)