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 [...]

The Mysteries of iCal, Revealed! (Via Jens Ayton.):

One of the minor yet shiny new features of Mac OS X 10.5 is that iCal’s dock icon now shows the correct date even when iCal is not running. Some assumed this to be hard-coded functionality in the dock, but a few brave souls – well, one, [...]

The November Phoenix Cocoaheads meeting is tomorrow night at 7. This months topic is Cocoa Bindings and I’m going to be giving the presentation. So if you want to see me stumble through a talk, stop on by. =)
Location:
Target Training International
16020 N 77th St
Scottsdale AZ 85260
United States

Drew McCormack has up what looks to be a great tutorial on the new NSOperation and NSOperationQueue classes for threading in Cocoa. The classes promise to simplify threading and make it easier to implement well behaved, multi-threaded apps.

You gotta love the utility companies for being so nice and giving helpful warnings. Today I awoke to a flyer on my door from APS (the electric company here) with a notice that they’re upgrading some equipment and the we can expect to have a quick power outage of about 5 minutes. They [...]

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 [...]