That’s surely unprofessional by any standard.

There’s already a simple fix for this however. You can just press Command + Option + Shift + V. Try that. Seriously. Try and press all that 4 buttons together. I don’t think anyone would want to repeat that command stroke every single time.

In order to set “Paste and Match Sytle” as the default paste command, just complete the following instructions:

1. Launch System Preferences.
2. Select Keyboard & Mouse.
   
3. Select the Keyboard Shortcuts tab. Scroll down and select All Applications.
   
4. Click on the small + box at the bottom left of the window.
5. Fill up the dialog with the following details:
   Application: All Applications (Or the name of the application)
   Menu Title: Paste and Match Style
   Keyboard Shortcut: ⌘V (Command + V)
   

There you have it. Perfectly formatted pasted information in your mail (or any other applications that comes with the feature) all the time.

Source: iPhone Unpacking

First, visit oobject to obtain all the items that you need to get the right look and feel. Here are some of the items that you will need:

One particular item that I’m really interested in would be Item 21, which is the Motorized Shades by Mechoshade. It completes the sterile and futuristic look that I’m so in love with. I just have to wonder when I will be able to install that in my place somewhere.

Why Prices End in 99s: Humans Are Mathematically Incompetent | Epicenter from Wired.com

Which is smaller: 298,548 or 298,000? If you picked 298,548, you’re not alone. That’s the ol’ precision heuristic in price magnitude judgments doing its thing.

I have always thought that they are just trying to make the price ‘sounds’ lower than it is by reducing it by 1. To say ’300 something’ for a product priced at 399 surely sounds cheaper than ’400 bucks’!

Need an example? Here’s a very good one:

Apple Store

Here’s another theory to the same question.

It started at Bill’s Texaco in Waco, Texas during a price war. I say it’s a much older management technique to force employees to open cash register drawers for each transaction (making simply pocketing a bill more obvious).

You can read a couple more at The Sraight Dope if you’re interested. Unfortunately, trying to find out who invented it is like trying to find out who invented the hat.

What can we expect from MacWorld this year? A new product? Maybe something wireless. We’ll see in a few days.

Source: AppleInsider

If you’re on Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), follow the instructions on the following post: Vibrant Ink for Snow Leopard Terminal

Updated: TerminalColors ‘updated’ for 10.5.2 compatibility.

As mentioned on Ciarán Walsh’s Blog, the default blue background that’s being used for Leopard’s terminal is difficult to read on a black background. In order to customize the colors, you will need the SIMBL hack for Leopard’s Terminal.

Here’s a screenshot of how it would look like on your Mac.

1. Download and install the SIMBL plugin on the website. There’s instructions on how to install the SIBML plugin there.

2. Install the TerminalColors hack for Leopard. (Note: For Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard users, download the file below)

3. Install the Vibrant Ink for Leopard Terminal Theme. Download link is in the box.net widget below.

4. Put this in your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc if you are using ZSH) :
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'
export CLICOLOR=1;


5. Voilà! You’re done! Your Terminal should look something like the screenshot above! I use Pragmata font in the screenshot above, so feel free to change the font to what you heart desire.

Think the new iMac’s ugly?
That’s what I thought too until I stumbled upon Apple’s iMac website.

Here’s a snippet from the latest email newsletter from Apple:

At the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, you’ll find developers like Alykhan Jetha of Marketcircle and Apple engineers like David McLeod working together to build the exciting new technologies of Leopard into the next generation of Mac software. For Alykhan, that means he’ll come away with the knowledge he needs to use Quartz and Cocoa to make his products completely resolution independent.

You might ask, how does this affect me as the end user? High density computer monitors will be able to display sharper images and texts. Imagine reading an online newspaper that have text that looks as good as the one you see in a magazine! Will computer screen rival paper printing in the near future? For now, we will just have to wait and see.

You can read more about Resolution Independence from this Wikipedia entry.

Source: Apple Confirms Resolution Independence in Leopard Through WWDC Email