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Some useful Mac OS X tweaks

In case you find it at all useful:

Make iTunes Music Store arrows search within your library, rather than going out to iTMS:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool true

Allow Dashboard Widgets to be dragged away from the Dashboard and onto the ‘normal’ layer you work on:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode -bool true

A different progress indicator in Safari 3:

defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator -bool true

Safari debug menu:

defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool true

Safari Web Inspector - not as good as Firebug, but pretty good:

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Wowzers: iPhone

Apple's new iPhone

I believe the phrase is “OMG”. Apple has announced the iPhone, surely the most eagerly - no, desperately eagerly - awaited bit of technology in the recent history of bits of technology.

Over the years, the “will-they-won’t-they?” debates became so extreme that it was impossible to trust anyone’s predictions; it was all just endless wishful thinking. But when even the best Mac blogger started guessing that it was going to happen, it all got rather exciting. Would they really try to reinvent the phone? Isn’t that a bit too amazing a prospect, even for Apple?

Nope. It’s real. And it’s exactly what I’d secretly been holding out for: pretty much a Newton-iPod hybrid, running OS X. But with a phone. And a camera. And a proper web browser. And everything else.Bloody amazing. Want one.

Autumn 2007. That’s a long time to be continuously hitting refresh…

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