I tried to import my old Keychain backups. As it seems, Keychain tries everything to prevent it :/
It worked somehow but it was very “unmacish”. I had to copy my *.keychain files to ~/Library/Keychains and then create a new keychain with the same name as the copied files. Keychain presented me an error but imported the old keys as a side effect. Well…

The new Mac Mini arrived! Yay! The good news are that it feels much faster than the old Mac Mini and it has Frontrow. Mind you there are also bad news… I didn’t have much time lately - only switched it on for three times. The first time Safari crashed. The second time Mail crashed. And now i had a complete freeze (bad memory access) :/
There are some other annoyances… Azureus does not work with the Intel Mini, Windowdragon uses Unsanity’s Application Enhancer (wich isn’t UB now), Virtue lacks a pager (that’s why I am using Desktop Manager now) and somewhere else children are starving to death. It’s all about perspectives.

Rasterbator is a nifty tool to create huge posters from numerous printed pieces.
Link

Sidenote is a smal tray that pops up when you hit the edge of your screen with the mouse. You can store anything that’s drag&dropable in in. Very handy to put the stuff on your desktop in a sidenote…
Sidenote

Quicksilver ROCKS!

Here are some basic and advanced tips how to use quicksilver in new mind boggling ways:
For a good read check this tutorials:
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2005/02/quicksilver_fro.php
http://vjarmy.com/archives/2006/01/quicksilver_gold_trigger.php

Assign custom shortcuts with triggers
1. You can use QS (QuickSilver) to bind _ANY_ action to a custom key combo. This way you can start all sorts of scripts and programms with a shortcut of your choice. Wanna have a shortcut for resizing your frontmost window? Check this one. Save the following snippet as a AppleScript… script:


tell application "System Events"
set frontApp to first application process whose frontmost is true
end tell

tell application (name of frontApp)
set zoomed of window 1 to not (zoomed of window 1)
end tell


Save the script somewhere and remember it. Then fire up QS and go to prefferences. There click on Triggers on the left side. You can add a trigger with the + sign.

In the select pane navigate to your script. Note the select pane works just like QuickSilver - just type in what you look for… After you found your application or script, press save. You’ll be back in the trigger main pane. Assign a shortcut in the right pane. That’s it.

Start/Search tracks from iTunes with QS
You can have a specialized instance of QuickSilver just for iTunes. Way faster to choose your tracks than switching to iTunes and clicking on the search pane.
Create a new trigger and select iTunes -> Browse Tracks. For the Action choose QSObjectSearchChildrenAction. Click on save and choose a shortcut ( I took option + space). That’s it. System wide iTunes track search. And it’s not only about iTunes tracks… You can modify the trigger to search for artists, playlists and so on.

Go nuts with Proxies
To use proxies you have to enable the advanced features -> Beta in QS. With this you can add proxies to QS so it knows what’s going on. Like what is your frontmost window, what webpage is in the frontmost browser and so on. You can then combine this stuff with triggers to bind your key combo to actions like: Hide other windows other than the frontmost one, or start another browser if the website you are viewing in Safari does not display correctly. To enable the proxies, go to the QS prefs, then on click on Catalog in the left pane, expand Quicksilver and check Proxies. Now you have more actions for triggers.

For other hints and ideas check the two links from the top.

Did I mention that I like the QuickSilver font? Hm, this would make a nice tatoo

Imagewell is a small and nifty image editor. It can upload the images via ftp, webdav, to a folder or directly to .mac. I like it Imagewell

Right! This one does what the name says. It looks at the .bom files in the receipts and deletes all files belonging to the package. It has a small and simple gui. Right now I am using the beta version. But it didn’t wreck my system - so it’s stable Desinstaller link

I love this game. Still playing the demo and I can’t wait ’til it’s released.
Crashday link

E-Technik/Digitaltechnik im dritten Versuch überlebt… Mal sehen wie es ausgegangen ist. E-Technik war relativ einfach aber viel zu viel für die kurze Zeit und Digitaltechnik war schwerer als erwartet.

http://www.cs.duke.edu/~rodger/tools/tools.html