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Today's News by Cletus™ LaunchBar 3.2.8 is the newest version of Objective Development excellent launcher program. This newest release only adds to the great functionality of this program. If you have never used this launcher, you simply type in a short abbreviation and off you go. Here are the changes: - LaunchBar now supports localized filenames. Applications, Preference Panes and folders can be searched by their localized names.
- index.html files can now be searched by their parent folders name.
- The default configuration has been extended by a couple of new developer documentation entries.
- The "Open with Application" setting can now be applied to bookmarks and email addresses as well.
- Scanning for files has been further optimized (it's up to 25% faster)
- Fixed an incompatibility with the latest version of Path Finder.
- Leading space characters in filenames are now properly ignored to gain better search results for these items.
Reinhold Penner has released version 1.3.1 of Safaricon. SafarIcon allows you to change Safari's user interface by installing icons and other interface resources. A small set is included. This release fixes a problem with Safari's version checking ability.
An increase in speed is the primary change in Trash It! 2.9. Trash It! is an AppleScript that force-empties your Trash. It's especially useful if you have files or folders in the Trash with permissions set incorrectly. Also changed in this version are: Dragging items onto Trash It! is much more effective for stuck items. Viewing trash contents has been streamlined to work more efficiently. Significant code enhancements plus fewer dialog boxes help to top out this releases features.
Use the keyboard more efficiently by adding Key Xing to your system. You can launch applications, run Apple Scripts and other items. Nice addition to ones application arsenal.
StarfishX 1.2b1 had a huge memory leak, so a new version beta 2 was released to fix this. This program allows you to generate Desktop patterns. Except for the memory leak fix, everything else is the same as beta 1.
Several nice changes have happened to Safari Menu version 1.2. Safari Menu let's you view all your bookmarks from the Safari web browser system wide. Here are the changes: - Added preferences which enable to do the following: add Safari Menu to the login items, show/hide the icons in the menu, show the person and/or the URL of an Address Book entity, and show the computer name and/or the IP of a Rendezvous entity
- Added localizations in Dutch.
- Safari Menu now uses less CPU %
- Added icons to Search Google, Go to URL and Preferences menu items.
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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!
- Homeland Insecurity Icons by Bob Booten are his own brand of pixelated political satire. His only comment on this set of eight OSX icons is that he wishes it really was a joke.
- ProTools Icons by William Lindsey Cochran adds two new icons to his collection of Audio Gear Icons. ProTools, an industry favorite in digital audio editing software, now works under OS X. But only with Digidesign’s Mbox hardware. Here are a pair of icons that’ll help you keep it sorted out on your desktop.
- Samurai Spirits Neo Geo Pocket Icon set 1.0 by Tsuki is a set of fourteen OSX icons originating from the popular video game Pocket Fighter.
- Apple to the Core by Daniel Schutzsmith is a simple yet elegant looking Apple centric desktop created using Photoshop only. This one comes in 1280x 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. Campus by Simonok is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Bradford Wiles of Macmonkies sent us a striking 3-D Bryce rendered composition titled "Forced Perspective". This one comes in 800x and 1024x resolution.
- If my aging memory serves me, The Prisoner starring Patrick McGoohan's began airing in the late 60's. This somewhat bizarre techno sci-fi television series gained some level of cult status during it's run time. Ken put together a nostalgic desktop collage dedicated to the show, available in several different resolutions.
- A computer without an operating system is like a dog without bricks tied to it's head! Paul Probert presents a little more anti Microsoft Humor in 1024x and 1280x resolutions.
- Not only does Bob Booten make great icons, but you never know what he's going to come with next to hang on your monitor. Tetra is the latest stylish creation from iBobunot, and is available in 1152x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Hoeslyvista updates with seven new pictures! An RSS news feed has also been implemented to announce updates to the site, allowing frequent visitors an easy way to keep informed of the latest developments. Icons.cx updates with two new icons sets: Badged Folders and Developer Tools Icons. Here we go again with another odd update at the Burntcanvasdesign Studio. With a whole load more mobile graphics for most mobile madness and at last the release of his first icon set called 'another blue folder set.' hop on down to bcd. DV Graphics today announces a brand new icon set available for immediate download. The new set, called "Everything But the Kitchen Sink", offers 10 brand new icons to represent everything from word processors to virus protection software. Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new desktop titled Christy/Café and once again, Christy Smith of CBS’s Survivor: The Amazon inspired it. Live Pencil updates with SINGING ANIMALS from his 2002 Advent Calendar, Bars to place on your e-mails or on your personal web site. Emoticons: Space Spiders will invade your e-mail messages, and much much more to make you smile. 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. 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 Since I no longer have Linux/PPC installed on my Powerbook, I don't have a backup computer incase the ResExcellence Linux/PPC server goes down. I keep a recent backup on my HFS+ drive, but most recent backups are on other ext2 partitions. This could leave me in a pinch if the server goes down. That's why I'm happy to see that Brian Bergstrand is heading up an effort to bring an ext2 driver to MacOS X. While the newest version is 'read only', it would allow me to quickly copy the ResExcellence Linux partition to MacOS X and get the site back up in a few minutes. Brian confirms the driver will Automount the ext2 partition, so no more hacking an fstab file! Watch for more on this project next week. If you have used this driver, drop me a line with your comments.
A new Mozilla theme called Bluecurve should look nice on your desktop (pictured below). Another new release is Pimpzilla, but it's a little too funky for me! While not exactly a new article, Donald Larson's tutorial on building a Cocoa application using Applescript Studio and Interface Builder is still very relevant Check it out.
If you think themes under MacOS is a hot topic, it's downright sizzling on the KDE and Gnome mailing lists. There is a contingent of users that believe those Linux desktops are customizable to the point where they're unusable. In an audio interview, Amy Reynolds offers her perspective on the current state of skinning one's operating system. As an interface designer, her opinion is an interesting one.
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?) - Perhaps things are cooling down after the hot release of Mighty Mouse. Today I'm posting only three Mighty Mouse Cursors .
- Another beautiful Photoshop splash has been created by Chris Button.
- Our own Jeremy Hoesly sends this MOSS of a towering mountain peak. Jeremy took the photo on a resent trip out west. To see more of his work visit his site.
- A Ghostly Green Progress bar for Safari was scared up by Tom Hackett.
- A big Star Wars fan, Emily Grae created a Boot Image of the Mandalorian insignia worn by Boba Fett and his father. (How do people remember these things!!)
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Today's News by Cletus™  There are a lot of individual utilities around for dealing with Mac OS X. If you want to try a new one that incorporates a variety of functions into just one program, give Cocktail a try. Everything you need to do from Prebinding to Permission repairs to removing cache files are found in one interface. Changes in this newest release include:
- Changes to the interface.
- "Password (1)" bug fixed.
- Various minor bug fixes.
- "Use the Desktop" setting replaced by "Scroll arrows together at both ends"
- Mac OS X 10.2.4 compatible.
- Donate button now opens default web browser .
If you get that darn error saying you can not delete "this or that" file, give Delete It 2.0 a try. It deletes files that can't be trashed initially. It is described as working this way: "This program is written in REALbasic and uses the "sudo rm -R" terminal command through a shell interface to delete stubborn files. It requires that the current user is an admin." A streamlined interface is new in this version, as is the addition of the following buttons for Home, Trash, Desktop, Documents and Public Folders. You can now hide hidden files and auto check for new versions.
iClock by Script Software, is a menu bar replacement clock for Apple's default clock. Have the day, date and time in different fonts and colors in the menubar. iClock is also a kind of centrally located time hub from which many time related functions can be controlled. It also includes a customizable calendar. Pretty cool!
YazSoft has released version1.9.6 of their download accelerator utility Speed Download. Changes include: Updated SD PLUGINS for better performance and compatibility. Improved support for .zip and .gz extensions, and several other internal enhancements.
Synergy is the popular program that places three buttons in your menubar, that allow control of iTunes. The description goes on: The Synergy controls, together with the ability to control iTunes via system-wide Hot Key combinations, mean that Synergy provides the fastest way of skipping between songs when using the keyboard or the mouse; all this without having to switch to iTunes, or access its Dock menu.
The March issue of About This Particular Mac is now available. ATPM includes an Part 1 on how to transfer LPs to CDs. Another article deals with how to make customizable boot disks. Then there is Cortland, their monthly cartoon strip that pokes fun at the computer world in general. Very interesting reading and well worth the download. Available as either a PDF or offline ezine with your web browser. Check it out!
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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, (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!
- Just when I thought no one was going to make any more Classic sized icons, along comes Super Heros by Totto Renna. This snazzy little set of pixels features twenty six faces of your favorite fantasy characters.
- Designed by Isabelle Laffy, Big Band Icons are an ensemble of thirteen musical wind instruments designed for use with OSX
- Looking for something with a some flair to brighten up your desktop? Check out some hot rod style Flames from iBobutnot Bob Booten. This one comes in 1152x 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. Orange Crush by Midnightz is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Bradford Wiles of Macmonkies sent us a beautiful 3-D Bryce rendered composition titled "On Your Own". This one comes in 800x and 1024x resolution.
- Anders Thorssell sends us a beautiful desktop calendar for March 2003. The image used for the background was taken during a holiday in Rangiroa, French Polynesia. This elegant piece is available in 1024x resolution.
- She's totally cool, she's a Mac user! X Cool Girl by Corey R. Shaud is a fun and funky black and white creation available in 1108x resolution.
- Anders Thorssell captures the delicate beauty of a February snow fall in Stockholm, Sweden during February 2003. The download includes five different black and white scenes, all available in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com has issued a new desktop: Fire: Bathild. Live Pencil updates with SINGING ANIMALS from his 2002 Advent Calendar, Bars to place on your e-mails or on your personal web site. Emoticons: Space Spiders will invade your e-mail messages, and much much more to make you smile. 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. 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!
Cropping Graphics with REALbasic by Erick Tejkowski  | Due to illness, I was unable to post the third part of the Cropping Graphics tutorial last Thursday. To help you catch up, we'll cover two tutorials this week. Instead of the usual REALbasic News, today we'll look at Part 3 of the tutorial. Then, next time we'll complete the project. These tutorials cover the basics of how to implement click-and-drag graphics selection and cropping, like you'll find in many popular applications (e.g.Photoshop, iPhoto, and the Finder). (Continued...) |
StuffIt - The Complete Compression Solution
Tools of the Trade by Michael Coyle Max Rudberg had a week off from school. He used that time to update all of his themes to include the latest feedback and to make them compatible (and safe) with 10.2.4. If you use any of the themes listed below, go to his site and grab your update! The list of changes is long! - BBX Mercury X 1.1.1
- Brushed 2.2.2
- Milk 1.6
- Classic Platinum 1.2.2
- Mac OS XP 2.0.1
- Rhapsodized 1.3
- SmoothStripes
- Aqua Extreme
 Josh Zerin has written a simple tutorial that allows you to set a default name in the Login Window of MacOS X. You need to have the Developer Tools installed since this will introduce you to the Interface Builder application.
As we approach Saint Patrick's Day, the luck of the Irish is surely with Grayson Hall! He is this month's winner of a $50 gift certificate from PowerMax! All he had to do to win was submit a creation to ResExcellence. Grayson sent a Desktop Picture.
Many months ago, ResExcellence readers drooled over a glowing mouse that was only available in Asia. Now, MacMouse sells a version of the Crystal mouse made just for Mac users. What's different about this 2 button mouse is that it tilts left and right to click the button. Here is a little info from the company FAQ: The MacMice Optical Mouse is manufactured for us by Adomax, a high quality Taiwanese OEM/ODM specialty manufacturer of mouse products. They make many different versions of their clear-top mouse, for dozens of different supply channels and brand name buyers, one low-budget version of which is being marketed in the United States as the "Crystal Neon" mouse. Another version, using higher quality parts is made for Samsung, for use with high-end PC's. And finally, three new sites have been added to the ResExcellence Links Page.
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?) - Repeat after me, "Another five Mighty Mouse Cursors have been added to the archive!"
- For all the Devil worshipers in the crowd, a Pentagram MOSS was contributed by John Jones (not relation to the Rev. Jim Jones). The text is in Latin, and Babelfish doesn't 'do' Latin. My best guess is that is says the usual cloven-foot mantra, "Hail Satan, Praise Satan". If you are somehow offended, do yourself a favor and click on any of the other fine links at ResExcellence instead.
- Lincoln Benedict sent a nice Boot Panel featuring a zooming Audi.
- Now I've seen everything (having also seen a Satanic MOSS)! This Safari Progressbar from Gengar pops up an image of Switcher Ellen Feiss! He cleverly increased the size of the Left Progress image so as not to interfere with the Site Icon.
- This Boot Panel, called Container, looks like the MacOS X logo has been placed in a steel oven. Looks cool. UniverseG also sent a Boot Image of the BSD Devil.
Today's News by Cletus™  This program is quickly taking on a life of its own. Konfabulator 1.0.2 has been released. The program allows the use of "widgets" that will provide the users with any number of informations telling desktop windows from weather to what their favorite stocks are doing at the moment. Several are interactive and a couple provide live ticker information about news headlines. Using the JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X you can easily create your own widgets. This update provides several fixes.
CoolBackground animates the desktop background in the Finder using your favorite screensaver. A reminder on the page states the (of course) such activity is pretty darn CPU intensive, therefore it is advised to use this application only with high-powered machines. Changes in this release include: - It is now a full Cocoa application.
- It can run in background.
- You can set it up to run at login.
- French, German and Catalan localization have been added.
- Italian and Spanish versions coming soon and they request help for the Japanese translation.
Safari XTra will permit you to do a couple of useful things right from the menu bar. First up, you can view all Safari bookmarks, and secondly, you can search Google. Both from the menubar. Changes: - Now you can organize your bookmarks as groups.
- Some aesthetic bugs were fixed.
- You can navigate inside the browsers history directly from the menu (the history url autocompletation feature remain available from the URL field).
- New monochromatic menubar icon
Default Folder X was updated once again to version 1.6.7 now. It quickly added the German localization and improves support for Path Finder which is CocoaTech's Finder replacement. It seems it suffered from a bug in the earlier release. It also corrects a bug in Default Folder X's rename command and fixes problems with keyboard navigation. It is recommended for all Default Folder X users.
 A new and really cool AppleScript for AppleWorks has been released called Sidekick. It resides in the menubar for AppleWorks 6. It states: Sidekick is a Cocoa-based application that creates a menu bar item for AppleWorks 6, providing quick access to recent documents, start Classic version of AppleWorks 6 or 5, search Google, online dictionaries or thesaurus, and launch companion applications including Address Book, Calculator, and Key Caps.
Safari Enhancer has also seen an update. Described as activating several hidden features of Apples beta browser software. The change in this version: Fixes a minor bug when trying to import IE favorites with the "Any HTML File" option instead of the "Internet Explorer" option. This could result in hiding your IE favorites.
Have a Press Release? Software or General News? Submit it here: Suggestions!
Polling Place by Michael Coyle  Talk about a fast acceptance rate! Over 72% of readers look for a DVD before a VHS tape. A common complaint in the forum thread is how easily a DVD disk can skip due to scratching. Of course, I can't count the number of times the picture on a VHS tape has distorted due to a wrinkle on the tape. Both formats have their weaknesses.
You can still find LP records thanks to audio purists and DJs, but it's hard to imagine anyone will miss the VHS tape. Before long, they will be as hard to find as 5 1/4 inch floppies! If rumors are to be believed (ha), we will have Apple computers containing an IBM Power 970 chip within the year. It's hard to believe we already feel the G4 is outdated! This week's Polling Place asks, "What chip is in your main Apple computer?"
"Thank You" to the many readers who sent photos from around the world of their warm weather. It elevated my mood tremendously, plus I listened to my first spring training baseball game on Sunday (Sox beat Diamondbacks). I was feeling so optimistic, I almost put gas in the lawn mover! Below, and in no particular order, are my favorite pictures: Omar Sanchez and his panorama from the Dominican Republic, unnamed pool at eye level, Tom Hackett has lunch on Waikiki beach in Florida, another unnamed photo where the lava meets the ocean, and Robin Avery's backyard in Petaluma, California.
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!
- Grey Characters by Lisa DeBruine is a cool looking set of 26 alphabet icons layered on grey glassy ovals.
- Video Game Icons by Ken is a well rounded collection of twenty for OSX icons gleaned from such games as Halo, Starfox Adventures, and Wind Walker.
- The Melancholy Collection by Sean Meyers features two excellent desktops with a unique look. Beast of the Soul and Ignorant Trust are available in 1600x, and are well worth the download.
- Turquoise 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. Whirley Ride by Kitten is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Bradford Wiles of Macmonkies sent us a fascinating 3-D Bryce rendered composition titled "Midnight Rain". This one comes in 800x and 1024x resolution.
- Timeport 1.0 by Carbon is a wallpaper inspired by the discontinued Motorola Timeport. This is a freehand mouse drawing Carbon did of his phone one day using the good ol' line tool in Photoshop. Comes in 1200x and 1600x.
- Does she look familiar? Mat N. sends us another set of wallpapers featuring the oh so hot Laura Prepon from 'that 70's show'. These two pics come in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Live Pencil updates with SINGING ANIMALS from his 2002 Advent Calendar, Bars to place on your e-mails or on your personal web site. Emoticons: Space Spiders will invade your e-mail messages, and much much more to make you smile. Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com as now made public the original PS files for Christy and Christy Deux in a 'sort-of tutorial' for public enjoyment. There are also a crop version of the desktops available. 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. 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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Today's News by Cletus™ This program is quickly taking on a life of its own. Konfabulator 1.0.2 has been released. The program allows the use of "widgets" that will provide the users with any number of informations telling desktop windows from weather to what their favorite stocks are doing at the moment. Several are interactive and a couple provide live ticker information about news headlines. Using the JavaScript runtime engine for Mac OS X you can easily create your own widgets. This update provides several fixes.
CoolBackground animates the desktop background in the Finder using your favorite screensaver. A reminder on the page states the (of course) such activity is pretty darn CPU intensive, therefore it is advised to use this application only with high-powered machines. Changes in this release include: - It is now a full Cocoa application.
- It can run in background.
- You can set it up to run at login.
- French, German and Catalan localization have been added.
- Italian and Spanish versions coming soon and they request help for the Japanese translation.
Safari XTra will permit you to do a couple of useful things right from the menu bar. First up, you can view all Safari bookmarks, and secondly, you can search Google. Both from the menubar. Changes: - Now you can organize your bookmarks as groups.
- Some aesthetic bugs were fixed.
- You can navigate inside the browsers history directly from the menu (the history url autocompletation feature remain available from the URL field).
- New monochromatic menubar icon
Default Folder X was updated once again to version 1.6.7 now. It quickly added the German localization and improves support for Path Finder which is CocoaTech's Finder replacement. It seems it suffered from a bug in the earlier release. It also corrects a bug in Default Folder X's rename command and fixes problems with keyboard navigation. It is recommended for all Default Folder X users.
A new and really cool AppleScript for AppleWorks has been released called Sidekick. It resides in the menubar for AppleWorks 6. It states: Sidekick is a Cocoa-based application that creates a menu bar item for AppleWorks 6, providing quick access to recent documents, start Classic version of AppleWorks 6 or 5, search Google, online dictionaries or thesaurus, and launch companion applications including Address Book, Calculator, and Key Caps.
Safari Enhancer has also seen an update. Described as activating several hidden features of Apples beta browser software. The change in this version: Fixes a minor bug when trying to import IE favorites with the "Any HTML File" option instead of the "Internet Explorer" option. This could result in hiding your IE favorites.
Have a Press Release? Software or General News? Submit it here: Suggestions!
Polling Place by Michael Coyle Talk about a fast acceptance rate! Over 72% of readers look for a DVD before a VHS tape. A common complaint in the forum thread is how easily a DVD disk can skip due to scratching. Of course, I can't count the number of times the picture on a VHS tape has distorted due to a wrinkle on the tape. Both formats have their weaknesses. You can still find LP records thanks to audio purists and DJs, but it's hard to imagine anyone will miss the VHS tape. Before long, they will be as hard to find as 5 1/4 inch floppies! If rumors are to be believed (ha), we will have Apple computers containing an IBM Power 970 chip within the year. It's hard to believe we already feel the G4 is outdated! This week's Polling Place asks, "What chip is in your main Apple computer?"
"Thank You" to the many readers who sent photos from around the world of their warm weather. It elevated my mood tremendously, plus I listened to my first spring training baseball game on Sunday (Sox beat Diamondbacks). I was feeling so optimistic, I almost put gas in the lawn mover! Below, and in no particular order, are my favorite pictures: Omar Sanchez and his panorama from the Dominican Republic, unnamed pool at eye level, Tom Hackett has lunch on Waikiki beach in Florida, another unnamed photo where the lava meets the ocean, and Robin Avery's backyard in Petaluma, California.
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!
- Grey Characters by Lisa DeBruine is a cool looking set of 26 alphabet icons layered on grey glassy ovals.
- Video Game Icons by Ken is a well rounded collection of twenty for OSX icons gleaned from such games as Halo, Starfox Adventures, and Wind Walker.
- The Melancholy Collection by Sean Meyers features two excellent desktops with a unique look. Beast of the Soul and Ignorant Trust are available in 1600x, and are well worth the download.
- Turquoise 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. Whirley Ride by Kitten is the next great desktop from this ongoing display, and is available in 1024x resolution.
- Bradford Wiles of Macmonkies sent us a fascinating 3-D Bryce rendered composition titled "Midnight Rain". This one comes in 800x and 1024x resolution.
- Timeport 1.0 by Carbon is a wallpaper inspired by the discontinued Motorola Timeport. This is a freehand mouse drawing Carbon did of his phone one day using the good ol' line tool in Photoshop. Comes in 1200x and 1600x.
- Does she look familiar? Mat N. sends us another set of wallpapers featuring the oh so hot Laura Prepon from 'that 70's show'. These two pics come in 1024x resolution.
News From Around the Web: Live Pencil updates with SINGING ANIMALS from his 2002 Advent Calendar, Bars to place on your e-mails or on your personal web site. Emoticons: Space Spiders will invade your e-mail messages, and much much more to make you smile. Mando would like to inform you that http://www.mandolux.com as now made public the original PS files for Christy and Christy Deux in a 'sort-of tutorial' for public enjoyment. There are also a crop version of the desktops available. 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. 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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