Fast Dial - Making The Fox Even Better
I´m sure you´ve already downloaded the brand new Firefox 3. Want something to make the new fox even better? Here it is, Fast Dial!
Personally, I´m not a big fan of bookmarks. I always pile up a large collection but never use most of them because it’s painful to digg through them. Fast Dial solves this as it replaces the home page of your Firefox with icons of your favorite websites.
Sites can be added easily, allowing you to create a personal front page with quick access to your daily surfing needs. The design of your Fast Dial page can be fully customized, Fast Dial works with Firefox 2 and 3…. and even on Windows PCs 
Snow Leopard - New Features Video
Shortly after Apple announced the development of Snow Leopard, the first screenshots of the new Mac OS X version popped up around the web, showing not much more than the system’s version number 10.6
Even though Snow Leopard’s improvements will mainly be found under the hood, some new features start to surface now. The following video shows some of them, the icon video-playback feature looks pretty neat 
Growl 1.1.3 - Finally Mail-Growling
Most Mac users will know (and probably use) Growl, a powerful notification system for Mac OS X. If it’s a finished download, a new message or something else - Growl delivers notifications from many applications in a customizable, uniform look.
Growl supports a heap of applications but ever since Leopard came out, Apple Mail was no longer supported. This changes with version 1.1.3 which is supposed to support Mail. But after installing it, nothing changed - Growl was still not reacting to incoming emails.
After various de- and reinstalls, I finally did the right thing - Read the documentation. To make Growl work with mail.app, you have to install growl.mail which can be found in the “Extras” folder of the Growl disk-image. After that, you´ll find a new Growl-tab in the Mail preferences and everything works flawless. Looks like sometimes, reading the f*** manual really does help
Steve Jobs - Gone in 60 Seconds
Missed the famous WWDC Keynotes in which Steve Jobs unveiled the new iPhone 3G? No problem, the following video will sum it all up, giving you more time to be excited about Apple’s newest soon-to-be-ultra-popular cellphone/gadget.
Coldplay - Viva La Vida iTunes Ad
Apple has launched a new TV commercial featuring Coldplay and their song Viva la Vida which is exclusively available on iTunes.
The commercial premiered during the American Idol Season Finale on May 20th and is the first iTunes commercial to not feature the iPod.
Stuff for Perverts - iPhone Vista Theme
Okay, the pervert part might be a little rough, the following is a bad case of taste disorder though. Imagine having an iPhone and thinking: “I`d like this thing to look and feel like Windows Vista!”. Sounds weird, doesn’t it? Obviously, some people seem to have that desire…
Interested in turning your iPhone into a Frankenstein-like transvestite of a phone? Then head over to ModMyiFone.com where you can find the full theme called Vista Perfection. It comes with 90 new icons, boot and shutdown screens and whatnot. If you like it or not, the theme itself seems to be rather well done, coming with lots of features and details.
Still…this somewhat feels like throwing dirt on your brand new Ferrari….
Software for Mac Switchers
When you switch from Windows to Mac OS X, the first minutes of using the new and flashy OS are pretty exciting. But once the excitement wears off a little, you’ll be up and looking for equivalents for all your windows software.
In the following guide, I´ve collected some applications that won’t make you miss your PC for a single second.
Steve Ballmer - Egg Attack in Budapest
Speaking at the Corvinus University in Budapest, Microsoft CEO Steve Baller had an encounter with a rather passionate Microsoft fan. The guy, wearing a selfmade anti-Microsoft shirt, claimed that Microsoft caused billions of damage to the Hungarian people before starting to throw eggs at Balmer.
While this looks rather shocking at first, it’s actually a good example of Microsoft customer satisfaction. The people enjoy their products that much, they feel the need to give something back. Personally, I would have found it a lot funner if he was throwing Apples…but thats just me
Firefox 3 RC1 - A Sleeker Fox
On Mozilla.com, interested users can now download the first release-candidate of the upcoming 3.0 version of the popular browser. The fiery fox is available as Windows, Linux and Mac OS X version - I´ve tried the latter to see if it offers any improvements.
Once you open the downloaded disk image, Firefox is installed by dragging the icon in your applications folder. If you have Firefox 2.0 installed, the RC1 asks if it should overwrite the old version. If you´re not sure if you want to keep the new fox, simply rename the existing version so you can easily fall back.
At the first start, Firefox will warn you that certain addons (if you have any installed) are not compatible with 3.0 and offers to search for new a version. Once the main window opens up, you`ll immediately notice the new-look header. Mozilla claims that Firefox 3 finally looks like a real Mac OS X application. While that is somewhat true, I personally don’t like the new look too much as it looks kind of cluttered.
The address bar brings us two new features. If you click the RSS icon, you`re not just redirected to the RSS feed like in 2.0, the new version lets you choose between all available feeds including Atom and other RSS versions. Besides the RSS logo, the new bookmarking button can be found
Hit it and the star turns blue, indicating that the site has been bookmarked. By clicking on it once more, you can organise the bookmark and tag it. Bookmark tagging is one of the new version’s interesting features. Especially if you have a rather large collection of bookmarks, tags can help you organise them and find stuff quicker.
For example, you can tag all sites that offer certain features like a forum, a blog or whatever and find them even if they don’t belong in the same content category. The bookmark menu displays your bookmarks the classical view or you can choose to see them organised by tags.
Other features of the new version include a zoom feature, hitting Apple -> + or - will zoom in an out of pages. Version 3 also offers an improved download manager and the addon-manager now offers direct downloading of new addons and themes. Also, Firefox 3 now supports Growl notifications.
On a more serious note, Firefox 3 offers a few important technical changes. The fox now warns if you open a page which contains mallware or any other harmfull content. While this is not a very big issue with Mac OS X, it’s certainly good to have.
Maybe the most important feature is the improved memory management. Firefox users know the problem, if you used the browser for some hours, it will most likely eat up hundreds of MB ram because the browser is not able to free up used memory. The new version fixes this issue, I did not manage to make the browser eat up more than 200 MB of memory. This improvement alone is worth downloading the 3.0 version. Stability of the RC1 version was fine and very well usable in your daily routine.
Macs Outsell Windows Computers
In the $1000+ price range at least. 66% of all computers that were sold in Q1 2008 for 1000 dollars or more have been Macs according to the NPD group. This is a very pleasant market share for Apple in the United States,however the numbers are somewhat inaccurate as sales numbers from the country’s largest computer retailer are missing.
Because Dell does not sell their computers in stores, their sales are not included in the figures. And since Dell is limited to Windows-PC, the numbers would look a lot different. Nevertheless, these numbers are a huge success for Apple. The overall market share is 14% as the Mac Mini somewhat struggles to beat the countless competitors in the market of cheap computers.
Found on Applewatch
KVM’ing Extreme
Until a few minutes ago, I thought of my KVM solution to be rather clever. Being able to control two computers with one set of mouse and keys is pretty neat. Turns out that I am a lousy amateur as other people have taken that to a whole new level.
The photo above shows 11 screens connected to nine computers (Five Macs, three PCs and a Linux machine) - And all controlled with one set of keys and mouse.
Found on Flickr
New “Get a Mac” Ads
Apple is known for funny “Get a Mac” commercials and here are the newest two. Ever wondered what Windows PCs do when you turn them off? Right, they share all of their problems in a support-group…with mixed success
