Insomnia and pimping my mac

June 30, 2008
Tonight I laid in bed for about an hour before I realized there was no way I was sleeping a wink.  Tonight was not my night for sleep I guess.  However, it is now 2:21 am and I have seriously discovered some of the coolest things for my mac book that will definitely add to my productivity in the near future.  

Safari 3.1 Opening new links in a new tab and NOT a new window automatically
I have been using Mozilla Firefox religiously since I first heard of it a few years back.  The Tab feature is glorious.  In one web browser window I could tab it up with everything from email, news, and anything else I was working on.  I now use a mac and after attempting all browsers from Opera, Camino, Shiira, Seamonkey, and good ol’ fashion Firefox for Mac, I ultimately liked Safari the most….but when you click a new link it always opens up a new window.  Of course you can command click it every time but come on!  And to no avail in the prefs Apple apparently hasn’t had 12 million requests yet for this feature because you can’t adjust this…they must only be at 9 million so far.  
After reading up on some forums I found this magical piece of code that makes my life sweet.  

Open source mac software for just about anything…its free and legal and it kicks ass!
 I love new features and fucntionality and I like Free.  Once more, I like if the free things kick ass.  Here is an awesome site for really making your Mac killer.  From word processors, podcasting, web browsers, and financial software, this site has a bit of everything.  

Pandora as an application, not a browser window…..so you don’t accidentally close it like I do every ten seconds!

Pandora.com totally rocks, great music streams, solid variety, and commercial free besides visual ads.  However, I am a clumsy web surfer and sometimes my speed at which I modify my tabs or windows exceeds my ability to preserve my current Pandora song.  I find myself always closing the tab mid song and thats a bummer!  Well after a google search I found that Pandora now offers a desktop software (in beta) to make it run as a windows program or Mac application.  This is totally rocking.  Go to Pandora and pick it up!

Cheers,

Lloyd