Linked List: March 7, 2006

Tuesday, 7 March 2006

SystemLoad ★: Free utility from Marcel Bresink (author of TinkerTool) intended for detecting and identifying cooling or power supply problems on Macs. Remember John Siracusa’s post from the other day complaining about the chirping sounds emanating from PowerMac G5s? Well, SystemLoad can play a musical scale using these chirps. Cute.
Apple T-Shirts Circa 1983 ★: Love it.
Dot Mac Addresses Still Useful After Account Expires ★: News to me: You can keep using your .Mac address for things like connecting to AIM in iChat and joining .Mac groups, even after your .Mac account expires. (Thanks to John Stansbury for the link.)
WWDC Pushed Back to August 7-11 ★: Gosh, I wonder if 10.5 is running behind schedule?
A Brief History of Metrowerks in the Late ’90s ★: When Greg Bolsinga joined their engineering team, they passed the source code around StuffIt archives rather than use a genuine version control system. (Via John Siracusa via AIM.)
Adjust Visible Hours in iCal On-the-Fly Using Scroll Wheel ★: Hold down the Option key while adjusting your scroll wheel to adjust the time scale in iCal. Works with two-finger scrolling on recent laptops, too. Nifty. (Via Tim Gaden.)
Screwy MacBook Pro Speakers, Revisited ★: Chris Liscio follows up on the MacBook Pro’s unbalanced speakers.
Script Debugger 4.0.1 ★: Bug fix update to Late Night Software’s outstanding AppleScript editor.
Paparazzi 0.4.2 ★: Update to Nate Weaver’s nifty freeware utility for capturing screenshots of web pages.
Nintendo DS Lite First Look ★: Cabel Sasser’s first-look review of the new (only available in Japan for now) Nintendo DS Lite. Be sure to watch the video — that’s the good stuff.
Josh Marshall Bought a Mac ★: Josh Marshall:

So, my own predictions notwithstanding, this weekend, I took the plunge. I went out and bought my first Mac. […]

Within about a day though I felt like I’d gotten my sea legs. And so far I have to say that I’m really pleased with the decision.