"On the mac, this is a snap, thanks to Takeshi Ogihara’s IcoMaker. Head over to his page (assuming it’s a he), and look for the link at the bottom of the page, something like: “IcoMaker Distribution Package, 84KB”."

via steve cooley presents » Blog Archive » HOWTO: create a favicon.ico on Mac OS X.

"Hold down the Apple key — also called the Command key or the propeller — then click on the MobileMe icon in the menubar and drag it off the menubar. You should see the icon change to semi-transparent as you drag it off the menu bar, then disappear in the puff of smoke when you release the mouse button.

You can use this same Apple+drag trick to rearrange most of the other icons in the menubar."

via Hide MobileMe Icon in MacOS | Wayne Hastings - Interactive and Graphic Design - Los Angeles, CA.

Disable it:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES

Relaunch Dock to see the change:

killall Dock

Want the dashboard back? Enable it:

defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

(I had no idea it was this easy.)

This tip uses Dropbox, a multi-platform file syncing app. The only problem is that the access is read-only. But it's better than nothing.

In 1Password (on your mac), select the Agile Keychain to be saved in your dropbox folder (I created a new one, "1Password").

Then in your Windows machine, find this folder.

Open the 1Password.html file and there you have it.

An access to your saved passwords. Just enter the password and you're good to go. Well, almost. The UI ain't perfect, apparently designed to work in OS X while forgetting Windows users. But you get to the data (which is the thing that counts, right?).

Don't have Dropbox? Get it. It's free (and well worth it)!

Steps:

1. Copy DAT files from the audio cd to your hard drive.
2. Rename DAT files to MPG. (I'm not sure if this step is required..)
3. Download Mpeg Streamclip.
4. Run the MPG files through Mpeg Streamclip using Export Audio, export to AIFF.
5. Add the AIFF files to iTunes.
6. Choose these audio in iTunes and make MP3 versions of them (say, by right-clicking on them and choosing "make MP3" or the like).

I had tried Spanning Sync earlier but didn't want to spend the $25 for a one-year licence. So I gave Calgoo a try. It was hard to use and way too slow. At this point I gave up and bought a licence for Spanning Sync.

It simply worked and, as a bonus, syncs my Address Book as well, which is a real time saver.

After being a happy Spanning Sync user for a while, I found BusySync. Apparently these are the two alternatives for easy and reliable syncing but there's no consensus which is better. However, after getting used to automatic contact syncing, I couldn't think of using BusySync even though it seems to have more features/options.

I suggest trying out both. If you end up being a Spanninc Sync user, like me, this link will give you a $5 discount for the licence.

Note to self: next time problems arise with OS X and memory cards, check contents with shell.

# time in seconds to delay before sleep
set delay_time to 10

display dialog ¬
	"Going to sleep in " & delay_time & ¬
	" seconds" buttons {"Cancel"} ¬
	giving up after delay_time ¬
	default button 1
copy the result as list to {buttonpressed}
if the buttonpressed is not "Cancel" then
	tell application "Finder" to sleep
end if

You can create the AppleScript yourself or download an AppleScript application: Delayed-Sleep.app (60 kB), for Intel (newer macs), for PPC (older ones).

However, I'd like to be able to:

• Create a link to Dropbox folder in my file system. At the moment creating a link in Dropbox folder will result in syncing the link, not the folder
• Hide the icon from menu bar
• Rename Photos folder (say, to have it under a different name in finder side bar). Renaming the folder will make it a non-photo folder. 
• Change location for shared folders (e.g. John has is under folder foo, while after sharing it, Mary would like to have it under folder bar because she has different naming conventions)
• Share photo folders while browsing them in Photos section of the web interface. Say, putting the little gray triangle next to the name that would show a contextual menu. This would be consistent with the file browser which imitates right-clicking with this arrow - I'd say this "right-clicking" should be possible everywhere.
• Have shorter photo gallery names when shared on web. Something like getdropbox.com/876bb85j.  

I changed my text editing program to TextForge. It's simple. It's text only. It works. I love it.