This is only of interest. This is only of interest if you are running Apache & PHP and want a local search proxy that works in all your browsers, but I've updated my Lazysearch script with slightly easier configuration and clearer (though still minimal) help. You can see what the help looks like here, and try a sample search here. [Forwarding Address: OS X] 
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Undercover with GnuPG. Step up your security with Gnu Privacy Guard for OS X. The Internet is a seedy place, and the last thing you need is the wrong person reading your email.

Fortunately, one of the best, most accessible email encryption systems out there also happens to be free. Read about it in this weeks Freeloader Friday!

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc.com] 
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More great icons released!. Two more developers have kindly offered their icons for everyone to use. Buzz An... [Irate Scotsman] 
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Slate: Linux Surpasses Apple [MacSlash] 
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A Desktop Seventh Wonder. A computer case modifier, or case-mod artist, unveils his latest creation: a glowing G4 Mac inside a translucent pyramid. Kent Salas details his follow-up to last year's BlueIce Mac confection. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 
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A prime example page that Safari can't handle. I found it kind of funny that this afternoon when I visited the Filemaker site to investigate buying an upgrade to Filemaker 6.0 that a Javascript popped up to say that the FileMaker Store is not compatible with Safari. [Mac Net Journal] 
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Renderman for OS X. Here they come... [MacRumors] 
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PDF and HTML everywhere. Oh, I mean, on every Mac.
Apple's handling of PDF (Portable Document Format, an adaptation of the PostScript printer language for display and document exchange) in the upcoming release of OS X is just remarkable. It harkens back to NeXTSTEP, the OS that effectively used PDF for everything. Apple talked a lot about PDF in OS X, but no one understood how deeply ingrained it is in what the Mac does. [Tom Yager] 
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Slashdot hears Apple's defence. "Greg Joswiak, vice president of hardware product marketing at Apple, in a phone interview today, defended Apple's performance claims for its upcoming Power Mac G5, after they came under fire in the wake of yesterday's announcement. Read on for the details" and the debate at Slashdot. [onlineblog.com] 
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Let's end the icons crisis!. I'm sick of being crap at graphic design. When I was at high school, I wished I ... [Irate Scotsman] 
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Design According to Ive. At the launch of Apple's new Power Mac G5, Wired News was granted an exclusive tour of the new machines by Jonathan Ive, Apple's lead industrial designer. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 
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Apple WWDC Wrap-up [Ars Technica] 
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Hermann der User. OS 10.3 revealed! [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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Mac Essentials. Die "Nacht des Apfels" war nicht nur für Apple, sondern auch für :itw: ein voller Erfolg: viele hundert Gäste verfolgten den Live-Ticker, und die im Senfkeller "Anwesenden" (falls jemand einen Elefanten gesehen hat - er war wirklich da!) hatten beste Laune und ihren Spaß. Apple präsentierte Produkte und Ankündigungen, die man wohl getrost als "historisch" bezeichnen kann. Hier ein Run-Down mit Links zu weiteren Infos:... [Industrial Technology & Witchcraft] 
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OpenOffice For OS X Goes Gold Master [MacSlash] 
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Jaguar is Over. Steve Jobs announced the end of Jaguar, and the newness of Panther, today at his WWDC keynote address. Panther is to be available as a preview release now, and ... [Slashdot] 
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New G5 Power Macs "Fastest Desktop In The World". In the hardware part of his keynote address at WWDC, Jobs officially introduced the G5-based computers previously leaked on the Apple store. [Slashdot] 
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Apple recodes OS X Finder [bradchoate.com Sideblog] 
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WWDC Event Coverage [MacRumors] 
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International iTunes Music Store - October?. Is Apple launching the iTMS in Oct? [MacRumors] 
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MacHack 18 Happenings [MacSlash] 
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Gentoo, Fink and DarwinPorts Join Forces. Mr. Quick writes "From Metapkg, "In order to better provide freely-available software to users of Mac OS X & Darwin, we Fink, Gentoo, & DarwinPorts ... [Slashdot] 
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Lots of People Expect Apple Stock Price To Fall.

The short interest on Apple's stock (AAPL) has gone way up with the recent run-up in price, rising more than 25% from April to May (June numbers not yet out). What this means is that lots of people sold the stock (by 'borrowing' it from a third party) with the intent of buying it back later at a lower price.

Here's what the chart looks like today:

Now, I'm not one to call people stupid, but with the World Wide Developers Conference coming up next week and the prospect of significant announcements, I've just gotta think there are better stocks to short sell than Apple Computer right now....(hint, hint)...

[Weblog] 
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Services In The Contextual Menu. This week's PowerUser Monday shows how to add the services menu to your contextual menu. This is pretty handy if you have a 2 button mouse (just don't tell Steve Jobs). Join in on the party here, and forward all comments to my email.

Like Pixels? Check out MacDesign [MacMerc.com] 
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Dynamically Creating PDFs in a Web Application. HTML isn't the be-all, end-all of web applications. Sometimes you need something a little more precise. Sean C. Sullivan recently found himself generating PDFs from his web application with iText. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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iTunes: Death of Record Companies.

Check out this short Business 2.0 piece showing how each dollar collected per song is divided up.  Artists get 12 cents out of a dollar.  The music download service (i.e. Apple) gets 40 cents.  That leaves 48 cents up for grab as music download industry emerges, expands, and consolidates while the real world music distribution business shrinks.  I expect record companies will start to dwindle during the expansion phase as they start losing artists to the music download industry.  There will still be middlemen, but record companies will be left with peddling only oldies.

[Don Park's Blog] 
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IPod Muzak Isn't Same Old Song. Apple's iPod is changing the market for canned music in business establishments. Entrepreneurs are using the device to play cutting-edge electronica where they once might have turned to bland elevator fare. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 
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Tech Support. »The technical support team at B. F. Yancey Elementary keeps the school?s 43 iBooks in good order, tutors students, organizes websites and shows parents how to make presentations. The average age of the team is eight years old.« [Apple Hot News] [owrede_log] 
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AAPL Gets and Upgrade.

While not juicy technical news, it is nice to once again get the "analysts" to see that the iPod is a killer piece of hardware. It's sales are very important to Apple right now. Not only are the most likely contributing to increased system sales, people are still buying tracks from the iTunes Music Service at about a clip of 500k/week. Not bad.

The other main reason AAPL got a boost is that it was bringing iTunes to Windows. Truth be told, it's a freakin' huge market. "Apple is abandoning its long-standing strategy of confining its award-winning software to the Mac platform," said Charles R. Wolf.

Another reason they gave for a bump is the upcoming G5 or PPC 970. If you like down and dirty CPU reviews you need to read Jon "Hannibal" Stokes' articles at ArsTechnica: PPC 970 Part I, Part II.

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Supply Snag Slows Down Mac Cloner. John Fraser's one-man Mac-cloning business has been temporarily shut down after Apple kneecapped a key supplier. Some say, however, he'll be back in business in no time. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News] 
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MacMerc: New Links, And RSS! 
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MacOS X Hint Temporarily disable net connection [MacOS X Hints] 
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Using a Mac on a cross country bike trip. Columnist Mike Wendland has been trying to figure out how to blog a couple of upcoming bike trips from the road using his 12-inch PowerBook G4, and in his search for solutions he came up with the following: [Mac Net Journal] [Not So Obvious] 
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Marc Canter: The New Paradigm of Tools 
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Internet Explorer. The key to understanding why Microsoft has killed IE: follow the money. [Daring Fireball] 
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The folks at the MacGPG project have set up a MacGPG Store for all your crypto-wear needs (someone buy me the clock!) . Says Gordon Worley, the project's admin: You can buy logo t-shirts, hats, mugs, bags, and other goodies. We offer them to you `at cost'; we earn no profit on them, so you get the lowest price possible. Check it out and support them - the MacGPG project is pretty damned cool. [Forwarding Address: OS X] 
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Apple's Net-Sharing Smarts Overcome Apple's WiFi Woes. So a bunch of us sit down in a WiFi-equipped conference room to talk about software, community and other such... [Dan Gillmor's eJournal] 
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Camino nightly builds include fast text find feature. The most recent nightly builds for Camino include a very convenient text search feature: after your page loads, just begin typing your search string and Camino highlights the first occurrence of the string on the webpage. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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Mono 0.19 for Mac OS X. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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R.I.P.. The rumors flew all day, but we held off writing about this until we had it from an unimpeachable source. Jimmy Grewal is a key member of the Mac Internet Explorer team and a stand-up guy. He confirms that IE5/Mac is dead. There is much that could be said, and we say some of it. Join the wake. [Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report] 
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RIP IE/Mac. Microsoft drops development of Internet Explorer for Mac. RIP, IE/Mac. You were an amazing browser for your time. I sincerely... [Backup Brain] 
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Paul Boutin: Wi-Fi for Dummies. [Der Schockwellenreiter] 
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