Linked List: July 7, 2005

Thursday, 7 July 2005

yDSF - Robust CSS Drop Shadows 

Six Apart’s Randy ‘ydnar’ Reddig has written up a technique for applying drop shadows using CSS. Nice.

ADB Keyboard Hacks for PowerBooks and iBooks 

I used this to remap the stupid Enter key on my iBook into an Option key. Much more of a lightweight hack than adding third-party kernel extensions; all this requires is changing a plist string inside Apple’s own ADB kernel extension.

Microsoft Downgrades Claria Adware Detection 

John Leyden, reporting for The Register:

Here’s one for the conspiracy theorists. Microsoft has downgraded detection of the Claria adware application by its anti-spyware software days after reports began circulating that Redmond might buy the online marketing firm. Under its former name Gator, Claria became synonymous with pop-up web advertisements and spyware and Microsoft’s possible purchase of the marketing outfit has raised eyebrows in the IT security community.

If this is true, it boggles the mind.

Smart Playlists vs. Latest Clickwheel iPod Firmware 

Apple confirms that after applying the latest firmware update for clickwheel iPods, Smart Playlists “may” stop updating automatically. You need to sync with iTunes to get your Smart Playlists to update on your iPod.

EasyFind 3.6 

Minor update to Devon Technologies’ freeware file-finding utility. Still useful in the age of Spotlight, because unlike Spotlight, it will find files anywhere on your startup disk.

GUIdebook’s Comprehensive History of Photoshop 

Marcin Wichary has put together over 1,000 screenshots — seriously — of Adobe Photoshop, ranging from version 0.63 running on System 7 to version CS2 running on Mac OS X 10.4 and Windows XP (although just about all the screenshots in-between are taken on various versions of Windows). Something I did not know: prior to version 1.0, it actually was spelled PhotoShop, with a camel-case ‘S’.