I bet you don’t care today about this small news as I’m sure, you’re all inline to get an iPhone, but I wanted to share this for the ones who are sad not te be able to run Uno since the 10.4.10 upgrade. While a fully compatible version of Uno is not yet available, I found in the mean time a workaround that works perfectly (I tested it successfully):

Just navigate to /System/Library/CoreServices/ and open up “SystemVersion.plist” and change the “SystemVersion” string from 10.4.10 to 10.4.9 and save the file. Then open up UNO and install it like before. Now just change the .plist file back to the way it was.

While I’m at it and nobody will care today about this news anyway ;) here is my latest screenshot (called playing with the cat;) ):

I must confess that I’m addicted to those little utilities for Mac that pop up pretty much every week and whose goal is to facilitate, or enjoy more your Mac experience. So, I have to try them all (or let say almost all..). Today I’ll talk about three of them that I discovered recently and who in my opinion stand out of the crowd. on top of that that they’re free or really cheap.

TabExposé:
How much do you love Tabs ? Anyone who experienced Tab browsering could not imagine for one second having to go back to a single-page windows surfing. How much do you love Apple Exposé - the feature that displays all open windows in a quick and clear way so you can access what you need in a snap ?
TabExposé is a Safari add-on that enables you to view all open tabs in Safari the same way Exposé displays all open windows on your Desktop.

Namely:
Namely is possibly the fastest way to open applications. And unlike some other launchers, it doesn’t require any learning.
You simply activate it using your preferred keyboard shortcut, start typing part of an application’s name and see a list of matches as you type. Most of the time, one or two letters are enough. In fact, Namely learns your habits and makes your most-used apps even quicker to access over time. It’s basically Spotlight for applications, only much faster, and highly addictive.

Witch:
Have you ever wanted to switch to a certain window — not just the application it belongs to? While you can use Exposé to switch windows, doing so can be very clumsy if you’re the keyboard-only type of user. And don’t all of these windows look just the same when they are scaled down? Witch lets you access all of your windows by pressing a shortcut and choosing from a clearly arranged list of window titles. Moreover, you can…
- Directly access minimized windows without using your mouse
- Close minimized windows without bringing them to front first
- Zoom, de-/minimize, and close windows on the fly

Newsfire has always been my default RSS reader since it came out. That was until NetNewsWire 3.0 was released. I gave it a shot and never went back. That is for different features that are still missing in Newsfire and one of them (that I really love) is the ability to choose the design of the story display. While there are quite a lot of default designs available, I wanted to have something a bit more personal and started digging in the ressources files to check how to modify the styles. And I found out that they are basic html files styled by CSS. I then decided to make my own. I started to mod an existing file, then created one and within 3 hours I was up to 7 new files!
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