The Complete opposite of Commercial Advance

TiVo Wants You to Watch Commercials Some of you may have already read this, watching your TiVo could now become more annoying than surfing the web.....

Stop the Madness

macOSXhints has a nice article on preventing .DS_Store file creation on network volumes. This simple command launched from a terminal window is welcome relief for Windows administrators frustrated with finding .DS_Store files littered everywhere.

Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love the Command Line

I'll admit it: Apple's Terminal.app has spoiled me silly. Plus I like feeling like I'm some sort of UNIX power-user when I use cp and mv and vim (when I must). As I've moved into using it more and more, I've been longing to be able to invoke native system Apps. Well, the big one being this fancy-smancy Spotlight everybody seems to like.

Well good ole' Apple is smooth like that. According to the Apple Developer API Reference: Man Pages, you can use mdfind to do a Spotlight search. Take a perusal through that and you'll find some nice things to use the next time you have to go without Aqua.

Google Toolbar for Firefox

The much rumored Google Toolbar for Firefox is now available. It replaces the un-official Googlebar from Mozdev. It has nifty features like Pagerank, Spellcheck, and Autofill. There are dedicated buttons for searching Google News, Froogle, and you Gmail. One feature it does not have that the Internet Explorer version has is a pop-up blocker. Lucky for us, that's not needed. As you all know, I'm somewhat of a fan of Google and Firefox. It's nice to finally have this toolbar available.