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Today's News by Cletus™  SuperCal 1.1.3 has been released. This is very well done utility that will give you access to many controls for setting up your monitor. It works equally well for CRT's and LCD's. SuperCal doesn't require any hardware measurement devices - only your eyeballs as it uses a visual display calibrator for helping you setup your monitor.
The whimsical Eyeballs is now at version 2.4.1. This is a program that will watch the cursor from the desktop or menu bar with a set of eyes. This program features a brand new icon and several language fixes and localizations.
The popular HotApp program allows you to assign program launches to keys. Now at version 1.7.1, it provides a minor improvement for the quick search in the Address Book.
Everyone seems to like FuzzyClock. It has just been updated to 1.1b2, so pop over and pick up this new version. It is an alternative menu bar clock which displays the current time e.g. like "five past ten" in the menu bar. Currently available in about 35 languages and idioms, version 1.1b2 adds the following: - Special times are now sorted by start time
- Preferences window is now resizable
- Added Romanaccio - a Roman Italian slang
- Added a switch for font with shadow or font without shadow
- Removed wrong language tab from Preferences which came with the last beta
- Added a menu item for the current time
 StarfishX 1.1b1 is out for beta testing. It allows you to create desktop patterns. It is based on Mars Saxman's original Mac OS 9 implementation of Starfish. Version 1.1b1 adds the following according to the PR:
- Added timer options to automatically generate new patters after specified time period.
- Added Dock Menu with option to start/stop pattern generation.
- The position and size of the main window are now remembered between launches.
- When the main window is minimized, the dock icon for the window shows the current progress of the image being generated (or the last complete image generated).
- Added option to minimize the main window at startup.
- Added popup menu to control how the pattern is installed on your monitor (using the same options available in the Desktop preference pane). The default it "Tile".
- Added a numeric prefix to the display names in the "For:" monitor popup. This should restore secondary monitor(s) to the menu when there were matching names (such as "Apple Studio Display").
A favorite utility of mine is Memory Usage Getter and it has just been updated to version 2.2. Have you every tried this? It provides detailed information in the familiar Mac OS 9 format. Version 2.2 includes several new features, including the ability to kill processes from within MUG, a true Cocoa toolbar, and French and Spanish localizations. Really, I am serious, give this one a try!
Restore Desktop 2.0 will position your icons back where you had them prior to changing resolutions. This program of course works with Mac OS 8 through Mac OS 9.
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
 Icons - Desktops: Yo! We've got another great selection of icons and desktops to feed your need for desktop decoration. Starting off with (6) New Desktops, (3) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a piece of cake!
- Color Characters by Lisa DeBruine is a cool looking set of 26 alphabet icons layered on multi colored glassy ovals.
- I have no idea who this grouping of bad hombres really are. Maybe you do? Jimmy and Friends by Gabriella F. Scelta is a set of ten unidentified character icons for OSX
- Giulio Gravinese sends us a devilishly cute little character icon titled TIPB+BSD.
- Yup, another desktop of a gorgeous babe! Rachel X by Matt N features the sultry Rachael Leigh Cook in 1024x resolution. This one comes with three variations on the theme.
- Purple Sandstone by Peter J. Sucy is another set of desktops inspired by the Gravity Well image from the BBX theme created Max Rudberg. The download includes two desktops @ 1280 x 1024 resolution, one with dock areas the other without.
- The kind folks over at Digikitten keep on sending us loads of great desktops to share with ResExcellence readers. By way of introduction, one of Digikitten's missions has been to provide a free place for digital artists to display their work without having to pony up for a server. Bottled Diva by Simonok is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- AmbitousLemon sends us a gorgeous photograph of a Sailboat gliding along a tropical reef. Comes in 1200x resolution.
- Microsoft knows what's best for you, so keep quiet, open your wallet, and be a team player! Paul Probert presents a little anti Microsoft Humor in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- David McNeill sent us a collection of great photographs of the Yellowstone River in Wyoming, taken during the summer of 2002. The first shot from this series is of the rugged terrain of Yellowstone Canyon surrounding the river itself. These are available in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
News From Around the Web: Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new Vector-based desktop is titled Christy Deux and this is another desktop inspired by Christy Smith of CBS’s Survivor: The Amazon. MacMonkies adds warmth to your weekend with 4 New Icon Sets! Featured this Friday are works from latest contributor Steven Ansell, along with Agrapha Icons, miX the piX, and WatiWorks. All this and more this Friday at MacMonkies.com. Get your mouse in gear and check 'em out! Timeoutofmind.com updates with three new desktop pictures. The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0 of our professional icon construction filter for Adobe Photoshop, IconBuilder Pro. Rampant Mac updates with four new desktop pictures: Falling Into Nowhere, ArtDesk #12, MacDesk #4 and RGB. Live Pencil updates with new singing live animals, bars to place on your emails, hidden images and much more to make you smile. Hey hey, looky looky, burntcanvasdesign has done it again. Alan has yet again put up an outstanding update filled to the brim with a total of 11 new desktops. MiXthepiX has updated the site with 2 NEW icon sets. One is a Star trek set and the other is a server icon set! Longhair's Lair finally finds a new home: New desktop images were added recently, and more are due to be posted sooner or later. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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 Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle I can't take it anymore. Not one more time do I want to stand on my driveway in the dark before dawn and scrap a layer of thin ice off my windshield; or stick ear plugs in as I pull the cord on the noisy snow blower. Most mornings my eye lashes freeze together as my breath escapes from under a wool scarf. I picture Ilona Melis making her icons in the Florida sunshine and I'm green with envy, or is it grey with frostbite? I picture Peter McHugh hacking an old copy of MacOS 8.1 during an Australian summer. I need a "Pick Me Up" and you're the one who is going to help me. Some of you gentle readers must live in climates where the smell of palm trees and the crashing of waves greet you in the morning. Please go outside today and snap a digital picture. There is no need to tweak it in Photoshop, just send me a photo evoking waves and warmth. No cheating by pulling out a picture from last August. I need to know that people somewhere on this planet are warm RIGHT NOW. I'll post my favorites on Monday.
Change the Default Safari Bookmark Icon My goodness, isn't the Globe icon that's used in Safari a little bright? I like to use Max Rudberg's Brushed Metal Theme on my computer, so those little spheres of bright blue make me dizzy. After a fair amount of digging, I found the location of the image file (see below). Surprise! It's not an icon file but a TIFF image. Show the package contents on a copy of Safari. Under WebKit.framework work your way to the Resources folder. The default bookmark image is titled url_icon.tiff. You can replace this with an image of your own, but if you use Photoshop to create it, you will need to tell that graphic app not to "maximize compatibility for Photoshop files". It's a preference of File handling which adds a lot of extra crap (can I say that?) to the image file size.  Once you have replaced the TIFF image, launch the copy of Safari and admire your work. If you're not too handy with those new-fangled graphic programs, download my set of three premade replacements.
 My buddy Russ IM'ed me with a link to WiebeTECH where you can get some cool solutions for interfacing ATA drives to a Firewire buss. They also have some huge, fast drives that are buss powered, so they are perfect for location recording of audio (Russ and I are both audio engineers).
My favorite item from their web site is the 1G Firewire drive on a keychain!
User Contributed Splash Screens. by Michael Coyle It's easier than ever to contribute using the new Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth $50 ! (How?) - Another five Mighty Mouse Cursors have been added to the archive!
- Gabriella F. Scelta from Intelligirl Design created a Boot Image that admits it's happy to serve you.
- This larger than usual Mozilla splash from Ryan Martinez features a stylized Moz!
- Oscar the Grouch is using his Lime iBook in this Boot Image from Emily Grae.
- If you visit Apple's web site, you'll notice it detects the Safari browser and displays a welcoming icon. Servaas Doornberg wrote a little javascript so you can do the same on your web site. It includes images and instructions.
- A character from Invader Zim made it onto this Boot Image from G.J. Martin.
- A nice animated Safari badge was created by David Vincent.
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Today's News by Cletus™  Cache Out X 3.2.2 is a cool little utility that I have just started using. "It clears out the System cache entries on your machine and bloated swapfiles, helping you recover valuable disk space on your machine and making it more stable. This removes the caches in System, Users, and Library, along with virtual memory swapfiles. You can now clear the caches and histories of all the major browsers, or select to clear them individually, including Safari. French localization included."
- Japanese localization added.
- Code optimization.
- Attention iCeCoffEE users : There's a conflict between Cache Out X and the Services menu of iCeCoffEE. If you want to keep this menu activated, please add Cache Out X to the iCeCoffEE Exclude List.
SwitchRes 3.0 is out. This little utility, built around a menu extra that will allow you to switch the resolution of all your monitors. This version adds some features like the possibility to quit SwitchRes, or detect displays on-the-fly without putting your Mac on sleep. Corrections with some little bugs found on version 2.x while adapting the code to MacOS X.
MacCandy has sent PR about a new program called MacMaid. The description goes like this: MacMaid makes organizing your computer as easy as clicking a button. For people that keep everything they download on their desktop and dislike having to manually move and delete files each time will find MacMaid very useful. It will also be appealing to server administrators who have to category files from an uploads folder.
Tomasz Kukielka let us know that QuickAccessCM 1.4.3 is now available. QuickAccessCM is a plug-in for easy access to frequently used folders, documents and applications. Things that are new in this release include: The first version of the QuickAccessSetup application for managing menu items. This version should work with Mac OS 10.1.x, and provides the application with a new icon. QuickAccessCM plugin provides the following independent modules: - "Quick Access" with items for quick opening.
- "Move To" with folders into which you often move things.
- "Copy To" with folders into which you often copy things
Concept House released version 2.0 of their Fluid screensaver today. The PR states that Fluid is a realtime fluid-dynamics model and rendering engine that uses OpenGL to create the effect of flowing liquid on your screen. The original version of Fluid has been one of the most popular screensavers for the platform and the newest version adds incredible new features such as 3D liquid surfaces that have shadows and highlights and even reflections, contour line rendering, streakline rendering, and a killer particle system.
Startup Syringe 1.0.8 by Ryan Schmidt is now out. If you like to install Boot images—and we hope you do!, This is a little patcher program that will allow you to install any color table and boot image into your BootX file. Version 1.0.8 adds support for OS X 10.2.4. Grab your Boot images right here!
Safaricon 1.3 allows you to change Safari's user interface by installing icons as well as other application resources such as nib files localization files. Includes 9 high quality icon themes. - Now check for Safari version to avoid patching older or newer versions than the latest official release.
- Improved theme menu build when creating custom themes.
- Added Japanese localization.
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Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
 Icons - Desktops: Yo! We've got another great selection of icons and desktops to feed your need for desktop decoration. Starting off with (6) New Desktops, (3) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a piece of cake!
- Alphabet Icons #2 by Mary C. Brown is an ultra cute set of 26 icons based on the shareware font Abcdaire Enfantin found on www.fontmagic.com.
- Danger Girl fans will enjoy this sexy set of fifty seven comic book icons for OSX created by Bob Coogan.
- Despite the fact the Pepsi Twist tastes terrible, Brandon McCandlish whipped up some better flavored Osbornes Pepsi Twist Osmonds icons from one of the better Super Bowl Commercials.
- Yup, another desktop featuring a scantily clad babe! Actress Elizabeth Hurley stars in this new desktop picture sent by Sean Dean. Comes in 800x and 1024x resolutions.
- Safari Desktop by Flax Creations is based on the outstanding Photoshop template designed by Abahman found at Adobe's Studio Exchange website. This one comes in 1024x resolution.
- The kind folks over at Digikitten keep on sending us loads of great desktops to share with ResExcellence readers. By way of introduction, one of Digikitten's missions has been to provide a free place for digital artists to display their work without having to pony up for a server. Asian Techno by Mowgli88 is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 800x resolution.
- Bradford Wiles of Macmonkies sent us an awesome looking 3-D Bryce rendered desktop titled "Adumbration". This one comes in 800x and 1024x resolution.
- Grayson Hall sent us a collection of stylish looking creations titled Digital Res desktops. The second two from the series are titled Digital Flames and Green Digital, and come in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- Girl 3 by Tagline is an interesting looking piece, layering a comic book character over a cool looking free form backdrop. Comes in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Timeoutofmind.com updates with three new desktop pictures. MacMonkies erves up 7 New Desktops for your downloading pleasure. Your eyes will be amazed with the works of Stefan Poulos and Rick Weiss, the latest contributors to the Galleries, as well as EA Design, PlasmaDesign, Eye9design, Terraholic, and Michele Bugliaro. Get 'em while they're hot! Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new Technosis/Anthraxis desktop titled Guam and in addition, a new Money 2K2 named Australia. The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0 of our professional icon construction filter for Adobe Photoshop, IconBuilder Pro. Rampant Mac updates with four new desktop pictures: Falling Into Nowhere, ArtDesk #12, MacDesk #4 and RGB. Live Pencil updates with new singing live animals, bars to place on your emails, hidden images and much more to make you smile. Hey hey, looky looky, burntcanvasdesign has done it again. Alan has yet again put up an outstanding update filled to the brim with a total of 11 new desktops. MiXthepiX has updated the site with 2 NEW icon sets. One is a Star trek set and the other is a server icon set! Longhair's Lair finally finds a new home: New desktop images were added recently, and more are due to be posted sooner or later. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
REALbasic News by Erick Tejkowski  | REALbasic 5.0 Release
The big news for REALbasic users this week is the release of REALbasic 5.0. Check out all of the great new features! - OS X Support - Toolbars, Metal Windows, Drawers
- Internet - Send email and download web pages without 3rd party solutions
- New Compiler and Debugg er
- REALbasic for Windows (coming soon!)
- and lots more!
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Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle Yo, listen up. My homey Marshall emailed me after the Grammy's to say Fontosaurus has a new crib. After a year long Trading Spaces, the new digs are open and ready to rave. Two fazeeel cool fonts have been added to the collection: Laika and Ghetto Booty (Pictured below). Welcome back Dan! Charles Ludwig updated his Slick Orange theme to version 1.1. It is now 10.2.4 compliant. This release also fixes issues with using white menu bar items (thus the change to black on the menu bar).
The Astronomy Picture of the day is the beautiful Orion Nebula. Depending on when they update the site, you may have to follow the link to view older images.
The awesome coders from Unsanity have done it again. Today's update of FruitMenu adds two great new features. You can now turn off MacOS X Menu fades (This makes the OS much more responsive!). An old feature from FinderPop has made its way into FruitMenu. You can now click-and-hold to have Contextual menus popup. These are only two over a two dozen new features and fixes. It's a free upgrade to registered users.
Apple's lawyers have sent a Cease and Desist to the owners of Aqua-Soft. This is site that specialized in modifying Windows XP to look like MacOS X. All downloads have been pulled. Read more in their forum thread.
User Contributed Splash Screens. by Michael Coyle It's easier than ever to contribute using the new Browser Based Upload Page! If you contribute a file to any section of ResExcellence, you could win a PowerMax gift certificate worth $50 ! (How?) - After adding five new Mighty Mouse Cursors to the archive, you now have 25 ways to point and click!
- While Zapz has submitted these creations before, they were in separete downloads. Now you can get his Cats Eye Boot Panel and Boot Image in a single download.
- Robert Stanford didn't give his new Safari Progressbar a name, but to me it looks like a green alien vein (Hey, I've been watching Stargate all night!).
- This Boot Image, based on the legendary photography of Che Guevara, was submitted by Sonoman.
- It took Matt Chandler more than two hours to make this MOSS. He wanted it to look just right for you.
Calendar & Appointment Scheduler for Mac OS X
Today's News by Cletus™ Thanks to everyone who sent birthday wishes!
 St. Clair Software has posted version 1.6.6 of their terrific dialog box enhancer program Default Folder X. It is amazing how much more efficient this program makes life on the computer. Default Folder X 1.6.6 adds support for CocoaTech's Path Finder, corrects conflicts with AlphaTk and CopyPaste, and fixes problems with keyboard navigation. Stop over to their website and pick up this free update that they recommend all users move up to. They even have a special pricing for previous owners of earlier versions: Owners of Default Folder 3.x, St. Clair Software's equivalent product for Mac OS 8 and 9, receive a $15 discount when purchasing Default Folder X.
Safari Menu 1.1 let's you view all your bookmarks from the Safari web browser system wide. It has been updated and is a neat little time saver. e dot software says this Version adds the following: - Icons to the menu.
- An Address Book submenu has been added, as well as a Rendezvous submenu.
- Google searches from Safari are shown in the "Search Google" menu item
- "Go to URL" menu item has autofill.
BKeeney Software, Inc has announced the release of Ugly Dockling 1.2.1. It harkens you back to the days of the Favorite menu in Mac OS 9. Designed as a contextual menu in the Finder, you can add applications, documents, folders and even drives to the Ugly Dockling menu. A problem that no one wants— quitting on startup, has been fixed in this release.
Memory Monitor is the little "dockling" that displays your computers memory usage in the Dock. This versions adds Japanese localization. It is published under the GNU General Public License, and the source code is included in the download.
Angelo Scicolone has updated IconCleaner to version 1.1.4. This file utility allows you to clean custom icons from files and folders simply dragging them on its window. 1.1.4 correctly cleans icon top-level folders.
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Polling Place by Michael Coyle  10% of ResEx readers have a vanity license plate on their car. The forum thread lists several humorous plates from readers. I have always been leery of getting a vanity plate. I'd rather travel anonymously as I cruise five miles over the speed limit!
Just as vinyl music records gave way to CDs, the DVD is rapidly replacing the VHS tape. What I love about DVDs is all the extra material you get: cut scenes, interviews, documentaries on making special effects; all these items make DVD rentals preferred over VHS tapes. How fast have you made the transition? This week's Polling Place asks, "Which do you rent more often, VHS or DVD?"
Icon & Desktop News: by Dan
 Icons - Desktops: Yo! We've got another great selection of icons and desktops to feed your need for desktop decoration. Starting off with (6) New Desktops, (2) New Icon Sets, and of course, updated "News From Around the Web". Take your time going, and hurry back!
In an ongoing effort to make it easier for you to send us your Icons and Desktops, we've designed a new Browser Based Upload Page for the task. Just follow the easy to use instructions, and you'll find submitting your artwork is a piece of cake!
- While this new set of twenty seven Invader Zim Icons by David Drayton doesn't have chicken legs, it's still pretty good! Unlike his other Invader Zim icon sets, this set seems to have a bigger focus on characters other than Zim and Gir. Invader Zim and all names, images, and sounds are copyright ©2002 Nickelodeon.
- Marvel Comic fans will enjoy this set of thirteen assorted comic book icons for OSX created by Bob Coogan.
- Stylish and understated, White on White by Corey R. Shaud is low impact backdrop available in 1024x resolution.
- Mark Kuder says that he has seen a few desktops for "Safari" popping up around the net, but none for "Keynote". So he decided to take care of that piece of business himself. The original photo was taken on his MacTable (yes there are tables design for Macs only). He used a CoolPix775 camera and Photoshop 7.0.1 to create the three different images included with the download. These are available in 1024x resolution.
- Blue Velvet by Peter J. Sucy is another set of desktops inspired by the Gravity Well image from the BBX theme created Max Rudberg. The download includes two desktops @ 1280 x 1024 resolution, one with dock areas the other without.
- The kind folks over at Digikitten keep on sending us loads of great desktops to share with ResExcellence readers. By way of introduction, one of Digikitten's missions has been to provide a free place for digital artists to display their work without having to pony up for a server. Digi Revolutions by Simonok is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Arm chair travelers and landscape buffs will enjoy this panoramic photograph by Craig Stanton of Lake Pukaki and Mount Cook, located in the middle of New Zealand's South Island. Comes in 1600x resolution.
- Have you ever seen anything so cute? AmbitiousLemon sends us a fascinating photograph of a colorful Crab on some Pocillopora coral. This one comes in an off size but scaleable 1920x resolution.
News From Around the Web: The Iconfactory is pleased to announce the immediate availability of version 4.0 of our professional icon construction filter for Adobe Photoshop, IconBuilder Pro. Rampant Mac updates with four new desktop pictures: Falling Into Nowhere, ArtDesk #12, MacDesk #4 and RGB. Live Pencil updates with new singing live animals, bars to place on your emails, hidden images and much more to make you smile. Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new sub-theme for the Giant Petals section titled Turning Leafs and it's first desktop set is Aidan. The desktop is available in Giant (1920x1200) and Dual Monitor setups. Hey hey, looky looky, burntcanvasdesign has done it again. Alan has yet again put up an outstanding update filled to the brim with a total of 11 new desktops. MacMonkies warms up your weekend with 3 new icon sets. This Friday's featured sets include some great icon work from RAD.E8's Sascha Höhne, Hein Mevissen of miX the piX, and James Cukr of cukr7 productions. News, UI's and Fun is what you'll find this Friday at MacMonkies.com. Grab a look! MiXthepiX has updated the site with 2 NEW icon sets. One is a Star trek set and the other is a server icon set! Longhair's Lair finally finds a new home: New desktop images were added recently, and more are due to be posted sooner or later. Timeoutofmind.com publishes three new desktop backgrounds. So what's up WWW? Icons? Desktop Pictures? News? Inform us! We'll post it!
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