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Did you know you can drag the URL from a web page up to Safari's tab bar and drop it there to create a new tab?

I don't know how I discovered this, but find myself using it subconsciously quite often.

Did you know you can drag a URL from Mail, drop it on a web browser icon in the Dock, and have the URL open in the browser?

I didn't. And it's very useful if you wish to open a URL in the non-default browser.

Find computer based calendars, diaries, and to do lists awkward to use? Want an easy to create and update web site? Want to take your web site or to-do list with you?

Do all of these things and more with TiddlyWiki.

Listen to Gigi Edgley's musical composition, Poison.

Gigi is the actress who played Chiana in Farscape. It's quite a good song, but what strikes me most is that it's the song I'd expect Chiana to compose!

While you're at Gigi's web site, check out the cool Flash (?) animation of her body; she shimmers from flat coloured cartoon character to topless human.

The new Dr Who series premieres in Australia on ABC TV at 7:30 PM this coming Saturday.

To help you get in the mood visit whomix. It's dedicated to remixes of the Dr Who theme. My favourite is Zinc Turner's reinterpretation (very bottom of the page).

And tonight on Channel Ten is the last episode of Battlestar Galactica, series 1. A must see!

Happy Who, you.

I still haven't received my copy of Mac OS X 10.4 from Apple yet! Even though they mailed on Saturday, 30 April to me. But, they did send me an email last Friday explaining how I could download it from their servers. So 2.7 GB and one DVD later I was able to install Tiger.

It's an excellent update. My PowerMac G4/500 runs smoother. While Spotlight isn't blindingly fast on my 5 yr old Mac, it is extremely quick and useful. Logging in and out is also much faster under Tiger.

Surprisingly, I'm using Dashboard widgets far more than I thought I would. I first wrote this feature off as eye candy. But it's quite useful. Kiel's off to SF for WWDC 2005 soon, so I can set up the weather and time widgets to tell me what the day's like in SF. The 6 day forecast in the weather widget is useful to Arriane too, being a washing nazi, but she's convinced it's not accurate. As if weather forecasts have every been accurate!

Well that's all for the moment. I'll try and write again soon. Actually, I should try out that Blogger Dashboard widget I've read about. That might encourage me to post more often :-)

Well, it's been almost 18 months since I released version 1.1.1. I honestly didn't think it'd take this long to release a new version. But it has. And it's not like I haven't written other software in the meantime. It's just not software that my employer would release to the public.

Now I have to finish off a web site, start a new software project that should be the start of something new, and get back to an Internet Setup Assistant that I've been developing! Am I busy. And I forgot about the little extra things I like doing, like the Address Book plugin that works with AppleWorks.

By the looks, I'd better get back to it.

TEN is showing Battlestar Galactica (both the mini-series and series) in Australia!

It starts Friday, 11 Feb with an 8:30 PM time slot!

It's great that it's being picked up by an Aussie TV network so soon, that it's free 2 air (unlike Farscape), and the time slot is early evening. Hopefully it'll stay in this slot if the Australian public give it the same support the Americans and UKers did.

I wonder when the series will be available on DVD in Australia?

Once upon a time there was a little bitty program called StyleWare. Little did it know that it would grow up to become AppleWorks 6...

To read more from one of the creators of AppleWorks 6 visit Bob Hearne's Brief History of ClarisWorks.

Dale