Cancel confused drags

It's always fun if you're sitting in a group of people everybody is hacking at their laptops and somebody says "I wish I could do this..." and the answer is really simple:

While dragging an item between windows using Exposé and other fancy stuff you might get confused and or lost. You can't just let go because the item be moved or copied to a place you don't want it to be. Use escape to cancel a drag at any time.

Amazing...

Mesmerizing Video

TED talks now online...

This might be old news for you (it did happen a few days ago already) but TED now has a website with talks and performances in audio and video: TED. You have to endure BMW ads (they are the sponsor) but there could be worse sponsors and it's definitely worth it.

If you are overwhelmed by te choices of movies: this is a good place to start: David Pogue says Simplicity sells. We all enjoy some Microsoft bashing, don't we?

Delivery Status

This my favorite widget right now: Delivery Status.

Apple Events with Ruby

Matt Neuberg introduces rb-appscript in this MacDevCenter article. which allows ruby code to use AppleScript like commands to send Apple Events to other applications. In simpler words, use ruby like AppleScript.

Interesting... one of these "have to try this when I have time" things.

Remote man pages

Great hint on Extra Pepperoni: Remote ‘man’ with BBEdit. Very powerful tool, not only when you work with other Unix systems. Mac OS X Server has some extra tools and man pages that are not available on the 'normal' Mac OS X installation.

If you want to use this with SubEthaEdit instead of BBEdit then do

ssh $1 man $2 | col -b | see -t "$2@$1"

or with the built-in TextEdit

ssh $1 man $2 | col -b | open -f

crave |krāv|

verb [ trans. ] feel a powerful desire for something