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Tales from the Mac Underground

The SuperClock! control panel for System 6.0.7

Here’s a blast from the past … just a little something I like to call the “Put Back” menu item … from Macintosh System 1.1

Updating me some more software and hoping that the “SMC Firmware Update” really does help the fan behavior in my MacBook Pro. Here goes nothing.

Daring Fireball’s fancy schmancy Unicode short URLs are giving ICeCoffEE indigestion.

Recent releases of Dropbox show the version number in the Preferences window.

Twitter notifying me that it has been unable to send messages to my Twimailer forwarding account. Twimailer has recently changed servers and is apparently suffering from DNS propagation latency.

Placeholder oddness in Momentile.

Uh oh, @cacomixI’s got some encoded entity weirdness flowing through to Twitterrific.

The Daring Fireball Effect™

A comparison of several common sans serif typefaces, showing the difference in legibility when an uppercase “I” includes serifs or end bars.

Four … count ’em four … Newton web servers.

Handbill promoting “The Advantaged”, an exhibition of artists and designers from Calgary and Edmonton … including yours truly and several of my pals from Veer.

Methinks @macfixer’s meta is adding to the bustification of the interwebs.

I’d pay for a “pro” Twitpic account, just so I wouldn’t have to look at ads like this one. Gah.

Why, thank you very much, Pico &c. Sofa.

Everytime I fire up Adium, all processor hell breaks loose.

The new “My First Tweet” site lacks both a proper DOCTYPE and a meta element specifying UTF8 encoding. Unicode and high-ASCII characters appear garbled in browsers which are not displaying UTF8 by default.

To change the location of the scroll arrows, tap the “Rotate” button in the Extras Drawer. This works only on devices running Newton OS 2.0.