Linked List: November 23, 2007

Friday, 23 November 2007

Environmental Tips From The Green Team, With Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly ★: May not be safe for work, depending on your work. Went over like gangbusters here at DF HQ.
De-Lameify Your Dock and Menubar ★: JWZ reveals the hidden Dock pinning prefs — instead of centering the Dock, you can pin it to the left or right (on the bottom), or top or bottom (on the side). I’ve been using this ever since 10.0, but it’s one of those hidden prefs many people don’t know about.
Mail 3.0: No Longer Plays Sounds Through Alerts and Sound Effects Channel ★: Pierre Igot:

Sadly, it now appears that Apple’s engineers have broken this in Mail 3.0 in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5). The various sound effects played by Mail when receiving or sending mail are now again played through the default output, instead of the output for sound effects and alerts.
Cowboys Beat the Stuffing Out of Jets for Best 11-Game Start in Team History ★: It’s always a great Thanksgiving when the Cowboys win big.
AppleScript for Metamark URL Shortening Service ★: Short AppleScript by Macworld pooh-bah Jason Snell to take the frontmost URL from Safari, pass it to Metamark, and put the resulting short URL on the clipboard, ready for pasting. The download is an AppleScript app, but you can open it in Script Editor and re-save as a compiled script easily.
Daring Fireball Rendered on the Kindle Web Browser ★: Looks good. DF’s markup is designed to render sensibly on low-fi browsers that don’t do CSS — better not to render CSS at all than to render it poorly.
Bookishness ★: Thibaut Sailly on the Kindle’s form factor. I’d like to try one before judging the hardware, but aesthetically, it does seem awkward in several ways.