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• Cocktail - Overview - another maintenance program for osx with more features than Maintenance, and more cocoa-y
• Arcana Research - tone down or silence the startup sound, NICE
• Radical Math - integrating social and economic justice into the math classroom; lesson plans, articles, charts, graphs, and more

• del.icio.us tools - check urls to see which are dead, and sync with google
• FreeCovers.net - The Universal CD Cover Source! - via j, full text!
• racquetball racket - Google Search - many links for how to choose and where to buy

• Relationship Completer v1.1.0 « tl.software - don’t use this feature of address book, but if you do, this is handy
• Is Growl available for Leopard? - Growl Discuss | Google Groups - it’s back! yay!
• Easy text messaging to offline buddies in iChat - at macosxhints.com
• Navigating Mac OS X with only the keyboard - OS X Daily - a handful of key combos
• Anxiety - Lightweight To-do Management - synchronizes with iCal and Mail. Its aim is to provide a streamlined, easily accessible interface to add and check off your tasks, while remaining poised to melt into the background at a moments notice.
• 100 Mac Keyboard Shortcuts for Creating Symbols - from Usingmac.com
• Guide for getting third-party apps on the iPhone 1.1.1 under Mac OS X (new and improved) - iPhone Atlas - it was fun under 1.0.2, but this must take hours! i think i’ll wait til february, thanks.
• 100Fires.com: Extraordinary Books (and More!) for a Healthy Planet - Thousands of titles on creating an ecologically sustainable, socially just and democratic world. Dozens of independent, non-corporate publishers and non-profit groups.
• Many-to-Many: - group blog on social software
• gReader 1.31 // journal // hicksdesign - latest as of 12/19/07
• I Bought a Mac - answers for new users
• NIXANZ - home of yum, the free Recipe book application for storing, managing, printing and searching recipe collections.
• BetterZip Quick Look Generator - Lets you view the contents of compressed archives through Leopard’s Quick Look. found at Apple - Downloads - System/Disk Utilities
• iSmiley - Download - where you find tons more ichat (and photobooth) effects
• Murphy Mac - mac screencasts from murphy an IT pro and mac switcher of 2004
• Productivity Cafe - by susan sabo
• iBackup - simple backup/restore for osx
• Why Crunch Mode Doesn’t Work: 6 Lessons - from igda - loss of productivity in overtime

• 85 Great Photography Blogs, Galleries and Sites You Can’t Afford to Miss - from DIYPhotography.net - wish i had the time
• View the Contents of a Folder in Quick Look - quick how-to from mactips, nice feature
• Retroactively, Panel Reduces Drug Sentences - New York Times - wow. a sea change.
• MacTips: OS X Tips & Tricks - primary focus is to improve your Macintosh relationship by providing frequent, relevant and intelligent tips.Our secondary focus it providing a structure so that a free and open Mac community may flourish.
• Introduction to Cap-and-Trade Carbon Policy: Using Musical Chairs as An Illustration of Managed Scarcity - mac & pc versions of a slideshow overview “for The Curious & Concerned, a growing number of people who understand the importance of a federal climate policy but are confused by the framework of the current proposals.”

• Get the IRS to Pay for Your Mac | the Lease Guy - tax code section 179 lets businesses get $900-$1600 back
• Counseling - SCORE - Portland - “SCORE, Counselors to America’s Small Business, is a non-profit, all volunteer organization, whose mission is to help small businesses and small business entrepreneurs become successful.”
• Hopworks Urban Brewery - at 29th and powell
• When Pigs Fly: The Death of Oink, the Birth of Dissent, and a Brief History of Record Industry Suicide. - from demonbaby blog

there’s a new organic brewery on powell and 29th. looking forward to trying it out.

the supergreat missing manual series covers apple’s iwork, but only the ‘05 version. if you are new to the iwork collection of apps or want to increase your proficiency with them, here’s the basic (apple-made) places to go to to get deeper in and get better at them:

• all the iwork tutorials
• there’s “hot tips” sites for each: pages, numbers, and keynote.
• and each has a site devoted to their respective keyboard shortcuts: pages, numbers, and keynote.

then if you want to pony up the $, there’s a few screencasts at screencastsonline.com.

that said, i betcha DP is hard at work on an updated version of an iworks missing manual as we speak. Professor Pogue? care to comment?

Here you will find helpful and interesting posts related to Mac OS X and Eli’s ongoing training in Mac productivity. Eli works as a trainer with Brightstone (Expert Apple Technical Consulting and Support for the Portland Oregon Metro Region).

These posts supplement Eli’s workshop “Get Your Mac Act In Gear: Helping You Increase Productivity by Working More Efficiently and Effectively on Your Mac”. You’ll also find links to many of the tools, tips, tricks, and good information on his del.icio.us mactraining page. Eli is also available for individual and group mac productivity training sessions. For more information contact Eli at 503.258.7787 or eli AT brightstone DOT com. Thanks!

• Apple - iWork - Tutorials - learn more here
• Apple - Downloads - Automator Actions - Do-It - this may or may not be easier/quicker than the quicksilver action, we’ll see.
• macosxhints.com - 10.5: Add useful toolbar buttons to Screen Sharing -
• xiombarg’s bookmarks tagged with “gaming+SF” on del.icio.us - i miss traveller! when i’m ready, xiombarg has 98 links and growing.
• Simple business card iPhone / iPod stand - The World’s Biggest Show & Tell - life, diy -
• Usingmac.com - Leopard Tweaking - Another Terminal Commands - via jb, some fun & useful tweaks

• iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme by ContentRobot - your wp blog optimized for iphone, nice
• macosxhints.com - Create Growl notifications from iCal events - the script in the comments does it without messing with app files, and unlike the original, works in leopard. HUZZAH!
• Mactracker - get info on any Mac - detailed information on every Apple Macintosh computer ever made, including items such as processor speed, memory, optical drives, graphic cards, supported Mac OS versions, and expansion options — and more
• 10.5: Link to any specific message in Mail - from ical or web browser
• iPO Quick Tip - Fixing the Post-Leopard iCal Sync Blues || The iPod Observer - Now Playing - didn’t work for me yet but maybe helpful
• Serving Life for Providing Car to Killers - New York Times - nyt article on draconian felony murder rule

well, that was easy. this blog is now optimized for iphone. no sidebar or images, but it’s fast and easy. perhaps someday i’ll customize it to add images in posts, but for now it’s nice to not have to zoom in and out and have it just right for the iphone screen. enjoy, all ye iphoners.

• Brightstone - expert apple tech consulting and support since 1990
• RECYCLED / RECLAIMED WOOD PICTURE FRAMES - local biz, nice frames, as seen at mirador
• Erica Simon Jewelry -

• Post-Conviction Investigation in Death Penalty Cases - by Russ Stetler
• Hidden AirPort Information in Leopard Menu - from TidBITS Networking, nice new feature
• Show full directory path in Finder window title bars - OS X Daily -
• Visual Dictionary Online - “all-in-one” reference
• portland ground: Portland Oregon Pictures - Fresh Images Daily - A Virtual Tour of Urban Oregon - Photos - Photography - Portland Oregon Photography - Images and Dreams from the Oregon Street - A Photographic Landscape of Urban Oregon