From the beta list of a new Windows product:

If some of you haven’t noticed, there is a problem with the installer configuration for the Beta 2 installer which makes it NOT completely remove/replace/uninstall the old version. Due to this bug in the installer configuration, you MUST do a manual uninstall from the Add/Remove applications panel [...]

Nice, a quick look plugin for zips. Now we just need one for disk images.

Henry Storyv:
The reason you have multiple spaces is to be able to clearly separate your work. So I could have one desktop for Mail and other communication related activities, one for programming, one for blogging, and one for other tasks such as giving a presentation.

(via John Gruber)
Henry outlines his use-case and the problems with [...]

Tip: If you want to test iChat’s screen sharing feature using your laptop and desktop machine, don’t set the laptop down on your desk in front of your desktop’s speakers. Sound is also shared with it and you can get a really nasty feedback loop going. My ears are still ringing from it.

For those of you looking to set up gmail IMAP still, here’s a couple tips to help things go smoother.

Use [Gmail] for the IMAP path prefix instead of INBOX. Gmail uses the [Gmail] label for the all mail, trash, spam, sent, and draft folders. So using it will keep any folders [...]

I finally got the new IMAP option enabled in my Gmail account today. I was really excited when they added the option, so far I’m not impressed. I’m going to give it another day or two, but I might be either going back to pop or setting the mail to forward and archive [...]

Andrei Drynov:
If you like the look of the Dock when on the side, you can get the exact same look everywhere by using:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES; killall Dock

(via John Gruber)
Saving this one for later reference. I have a feeling I’m going to want it shortly.

Cyndicate 1.0.4 is now available for download from either Cyncial Peak’s website or running Cyndicate’s updater. As with all our point releases, this is a free update for all Cyndicate users. This release is for Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard compatibility. Any user upgrading to Leopard should update to Cyndicate 1.0.4 to avoid [...]

apple’s antiCAPSLOCK (Via John Rentzsch.):

Unique among the rest of the keys, Caps Lock doesn’t activate immediately upon strike. There’s a very small time window — perhaps a quarter of a second — where if you release the key inside the window, the keystroke is ignored.
But that’s only part of the conspiracy. The Caps Lock [...]

Daniel Jalkut:

I remember using that “Bounce” command in Mail.app a few times many years ago. My intentions were good: to convince spammers that my email doesn’t exist and they shouldn’t bother. But I always sort of wondered whether it was worth it, and whether I would sufficiently fool the sender that my email address no [...]