If you are browsing the web using Safari on a Mac, and you run across an unfamiliar word, you can quickly look it up. This isn’t easy to remember, because the keystrokes are odd, but it is useful.

Hover the mouse over the unfamiliar word. (You do not have to highlight it.)

Type ctrl + Command (Apple) + d (as in dictionary.)

Here I was reading an article about Shakespeare from Project Gutenberg by Mark Twain and did not know what “capricious” meant. Twain does not believe Shakespeare wrote the works of Shakespeare, especially given how poorly written (yet documented to be authored by him) was his own epitaph. Project Gutenberg contains writings that are in the public domain. (That’s free books, mom.)

Mac17:~ cashel$ drutil info

Strategies: CD-TAO, CD-SAO, CD-Raw, DVD-DAO

Danny and I were out shopping for nail clippers for the ladies when we spotted a bunch of iPod accessories at Target. Danny gets a lot of use out of his iPod shuffle, but he thinks he would like to get the video iPod.

Brad Choate is an engineer who now works for Six Apart. I’ve followed his postings for a while. He says he’d take an iPod Shuffle any day over an iPod or Nano. He really likes the simplicity, small size, and durability.

I could not get my iBook to print to the shared HP Deskjet 6540 on our iMac. In a print dialog, the Print button would do nothing. I could only Cancel to get out of the dialog.

This posting solved my problem. It basically involved resetting everything print related.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=727249&amp#727249

1. Delete the Print Preferences. Do a search (File menu/Find command) for files that start with com.apple.print and delete them. Then restart.

2. Launch Printer Setup Utility. Choose “Reset Printing System” from main menu.

3. Select (in this case shared) printer and add.

I was able to create a PDF immediately and then Print right after that.

In response to Ted’s iPod At Peak.

Buying, sharing, and managing your music collection (legal or pirated) is a need that makes up a very broad, multi-generational, multi-cultural, and multi-class market. Talking to one another on the phone is equally broad. Managing an electronic calendar and address book I believe is much narrower.

I want a thinner cell phone. I don’t want to read e-mail on it or listen to music with it. I just want you to be able to hear me now with long battery life.

I need screen space for e-mail, especially as e-mail becomes richer in content. I really like my 12″ wireless iBook.

And I want to use iTunes to manage my music. I like speakers which are social, not headphones which are anti-social. So I have not purchased an iPod. (And I really am enjoying outsourcing music management to XM Radio.)

The iPod is more than just the iPod. It is iTunes. At Spring Hill kids can all legally tap into each others’ iTunes music collection and listen to (not copy) one another’s music collections because each copy of iTunes is a mini, auto discovering music-streaming service. The iPod is also the iTunes Music Store (and now podcasting and now video store.) Apple has legally sold an average of 10 songs per iPod.

I’m not sure anyone can put together Apple’s unique collection of services that are so simple to use. I think they are just getting started and have a huge market ahead of them with no Microsoft in the way.

This is a Frankenstein modification to a new iMac G5, but because Nicole’s old Flower Power iMac also freezes when it gets hot, I’m looking to add a cooling fan to it.

Legit Reviews – The Apple iMAC G5 Case Cooling Mod

The Bresink temperature monitor utility mentioned in the article reports on the temperature sensors built into modern Macs.

A nice bit of Google thinking with a twist thrown at the end that may not be far fetched. One of the ways to install OS X on older Macs without DVD drives is to use firewire and an iPod. An iPod is inherently a bootable hard drive… at least on a Mac.

PBS | I, Cringely . August 25, 2005 – Has Google Peaked?

Note to self. Oz is a PowerMac G4 867 QS Tower. That is QS (QuickSilver) as opposed to MDD (Mirrored Drive Doors) which means he is older which means he has an Ultra ATA/66 bus instead of ATA/100 which means the 200 GB drive I picked up for $99 at Sam’s will only end up acting like a 137 MB drive.

Also, Oz has an extra video card and when you forget that and plug into it, you end up seeing blank desktop (or extended desktop) and you think something is wrong. Tip: Plug the video cable higher.

I wrote about the story of Graphing Calculator which disappeared with the introduction of Mac OS X. A variation of this 3-D graphing calculator has returned in the form of Grapher. You can spin the 3-D equations like z = y * x.

Danny or Kelly should take note. Look in the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder for Grapher.

… is on the way: Tracking.

(Mac:Office 2004 just arrived.)