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• A Call for Dashboard Widget Evaluators Last night, I was poking around Apple’s Dashboard Documentation and starting building a couple widgets. If you’ve upgraded to Tiger and interested in kicking the tires on them, drop me a line. Widget #1 released 18 May 2005: The ProjectMaker Dashboard Widget
• How to Set Up a Linksys Router with Mac OS X  “INSERT CD FIRST”, screamed the sticker on the back of the Linksys wrt54g router. A decade with Macintoshes has taught me the suggestions are normally for Windows machines. The router was persistent - and the sticker was blocking the power port - so, I thought I’d humor it. I was right. The CD shipping was
• eMac Fax Modem Killed My Phone Line I had to send a couple faxes yesterday. Something I do so infrequently that I just use the OS X’s built-in faxing on these rare occasions. The modem on my Powerbook hasn’t been working right for a while now - neither has the disc drive. I’m getting a real good idea of how much I
• How To Set Up Subversion, svnX, for TextDrive on OS X I’m walking through the latest beta version of Agile Web Development with Rails 2nd Edition, specifically the new bits on deploying Rails apps. Capistrano - the preferred and recommended deployment utility. Thing is - Capistrano hinges on Subversion. Not something covered in AWDwR or appropriate to be covered. There’s plenty of other books on the
• Some Powerbook Keys Not Working Oddest thing. I pulled the PowerBook out the laptop bag and a handful of keys stopped responding. I’ve opened up the Keyboard Viewer to confirm. Here’s the list thus far: return & enter (came back after restart) Tilde Caps Lock F12 (initiates my Dashboard) Disc eject Left square bracket Arrow up Arrow right I plugged in the USB keyboard from the eMac and that