Ok this is not directly Mac related, but the K750i is an awesome phone, pity it lacks some mediaplayer capabilities which the w800i offers, like for example playback of unencrypted AAC files. Now Jaran of JaranBlog managed to flash his K750i with a W800i Firmware (the 2 phones are technology-wise really similar). There’s no tutorial on how to do it, yet, but I guess it’s just a matter of downloading the Firmware and flashing it. So in case you’re a tad adventurous and would really like to play all your ripped AAC files on your K750i, follow this link

There’re some widgets which deserve to coexist with your other desktop applications all the time as one require’s them so frequently that the F12-Click turns into a tedious task after time.

For example if you want to see your TagBag tags all the time, it’d be usefull to put the widget somewhere on the left side of your gourgeous Apple Cinema Display

There’s even a simple solution for this. If you activate the dashboard developer mode, you can drag’n drop dashboard widgets onto your desktop, so they’re always available. I do this a lot with the stickies widget as it’s a great way to save quick notes

Or read the corresponding article at macosxhints.com:

macosxhints – 10.4: Detach widgets from the Dashboard
Mac OS X, Tiger, dashboard, development, apple, mac, tagbag

Adobe Illustrator is one of those Applications many people use, but hardly really use. People often just use it to do basic vector editing, and some aren’t even capable of doing just that – as Illustrator is quite different compared to Photoshop but the partly similar Interface suggests otherwise

Veerle wrote/recorded a tutorial which explains how to use the pen tool in illustrator and how bezier curves work.

Illustration, from sketch to finish

If there’s one thing which I don’t like about iCal (well there’re actually 2 things, but I’ll only talk about one of those now) then it’s that newly created events don’t contain an alarm. On the one hand it’s tedious task to select 10 new events by hand and set an alarm for each of them, and on the other I frequently even forget that and thus accordingly forget the actual event as iCal never informs me

Now Robert Blum wrote a small iCal Fix which adresses just this issue: Newly created events now automatically haven an alarm set.
Great.

Making a better iCal

Veerle asked his fellow readership for submissions of tips on how to use Quicksilver. I found it sometimes a bit difficult to rework the way I think so I could use Quicksilver for accomplishing awesome stuff. Some tasks are burned so deep into my mind that it feels difficult to adhere to new ways of accomplishing them.
So these tips were a real goldmine for me. I’ll try to use Quicksilver way more often now.