According to an article1 on SFGate.com, California is selling off items confiscated at airports on eBay. You can look for their auctions by querying the handle CaliforniaGold2000 on eBay. According to the article, they've made over $16k selling a collection of mostly pen-knives. Article no longer available at …

For those of you who haven't heard of PerversionTracker, it is one of the most amusing software review websites ever devised. Named after VersionTracker, a site that keeps you up-to-date on your ever- changing Macintosh and Windows software packages, PerversionTracker reviews software that... well... shall we just say it's not …

Apple Computer yesterday released a software package that allows .Mac users to access their iDisk folders directly from a Windows XP desktop. The software is available as a free download, but requires that users have a .Mac account to use it.

Yet another ridiculous, useful, and decidedly cool piece of software for the Macintosh. Sony Ericsson Clicker allows you to use a Bluetooth phone as a remote input device for a Macintosh with a Bluetooth adapter. Great if you need an impromptu controller for Keynote.

For those who work with PDF files under OS X, there's a cool little feature in version 10.2.4 and later that allows you to do some post-processing on the PDF files after they've been "printed". This article from MacOS X Hints details how to get the menu to …

In an article on O'Reilly's Macintosh Development Center web site details a method for getting Python and Objective-C to inter-operate directly.

Sometimes, the gnu readline stuff is useful. To install it: Download the latest readlines source A mod must be made to compensate for a file location change in 10.2 which affects the 4.3 makefile. To fix this, edit support/shobj-conf to change line 151 from SHLIB_LIBS='-lSystem' to …

For those of us who have the occasional need to add Python pieces to our systems, there is a small problem with the Makefile that comes with OS X 10.2. In particular, there is an unnecessary '-arch i386' in the targets line immediately preceding the '-arch ppc' (which is …

In a stunning revelation this week, the February 17th issue of ESPN Magazine contains a picture of the gigantic basketball player Yao on an airplane playing a heretofore unidentified computer game on a computer that is clearly not a Macintosh.[Picture in full article] Although reportedly a player of some …

Check out this picture recently from a Gateway ad.

I've been using this piece of software for a number of days now, and I need to tell other people about it. The stuff works exactly as it should, very invisibly, great with Safari and Chimera (probably others). The software is free and comes to us from Schubert IT in …

Apple Computer this morning announced a new version of the Xserve 1U server and a new RAID device called (not surprisingly) Xserve RAID. The new Xserve has one or 2 1.33GHz G4 CPUs and uses DDR333 RAM for faster access. It also contains the new FirewWire-800 announced only one …

I found an article this morning indicating this is possible. I haven't tried it, but I do have one of the aforementioned cards, so once I have a second 802.11g card, I may give it a shot.

I have to admit, when I first saw the announcement of this piece of software, I wondered: "What is Microsoft trying to do here?" For those of you unfamiliar with Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Macintosh, it is a piece of software created and maintained by Microsoft that allows you …

I read with interest an article posted about the Norwegian browser manufacturer Opera giving up on the Macintosh market after the release of Safari. The Opera claim is that they can't compete with Apple's nameplate in the Macintosh market and that because of that, they are going to bow out …

Apple has posted an FAQ for X11 under OSX. Mostly configuration and installation related information, with some additional cross-grade info for people who had loaded other X11 options on their Mac's previously.

Sun Micro systems has a good article on their site about bringing Java applications to the Mac under OS X.

If you're running OS X server, you've probably noticed that certain things (basic file and mail service, basic web service, authentication) work very easily using the built-in user interface. However, if you've gone beyond these basic requirements, the nice Apple UI breaks down a bit. I've been toiling for the …

This morning I decided I wanted little icons for my web pages, so I set out to put them online. There's information on the web, but some of the tools have gone missing. Here are my hints What is a favicon? Favicons are those little icons that show up in …

Linux Journal has published an article on Apple's new OSX implementation of X11. Discussion includes why and how, and some comments by Avie Tevanian.