But it goes further. Lurking in the scary bowels of Mac OS X for all
these years has been this little command, which brings back
single-application mode. (Go ahead and try it – it’s easily reversed.)
defaults write com.apple.dock single-app -bool true For
single-application mode to take effect, you have to relaunch the Dock
with this second command. killall Dock

Previously I use multiXFinder for this kind of job, which is free and play nicely with Snow Leopard. Additionally, it can also active the “Single Application Mode” while using Command + tab to switch applications. No need to mention the love of whitelist for some particular applications. Days ago I re-invited DragThing to my system and remember that DragThing itself has the exactly same feature.

Finally I use AppleScript to toggle this behavior, and it is lunched by FastScript.

tell application "DragThing"
    if not (hide other applications when switching) then
        set hide other applications when switching to true
    else
        set hide other applications when switching to false
    end if
end tell

This review really wouldn’t be complete without mentioning BBEdit’s
incredible speed. While many of our readers might not consider speed to
be a noteworthy trait for a text editor, I could easily find programs
that deal with text in a drudgingly slow manner (Microsoft Word 6.0
comes to mind). BBEdit’s speed is apparent in every task it achieves,
from scrolling, to searching and replacing, to formatting HTML to
executing macros, BBEdit is the fastest text editor on the face of the
planet, and without question the fastest HTML editor in the universe.

Even today, open a 200mb plain text file in both BBEdit and TextMate, scroll up and down, you’ll see what I mean.

The Magic Mouse is the new mighty mouse.

• Multi-Touch Surface
• Bluetooth Wireless
• No more 360° sticky ball

Just released by Apple today.

No need to say I want to use Taverna, but I don’t want to use install Rosette. Since dot is part of Graphviz, we need to install a Universal Binary version of graphviz.

The first way is build it by yourself. It can be hard, but if you use macports that would be easy. This will be great and convenient if you build every unix program with macports, otherwise you’ll get a lot more than what you need. For me, 400+ Mb of libraries and programs installed by macports.

The other way is using Graphviz compiled by Glen Low or by Ryan Schmidt. These two packages will install Graphviz and necessary libraries to the system. Glens’ has a higher version (2.20.3), but either of above should works fine for you.

After installed Graphviz, we can assign a dot location in Taverna’s preferences.

稍微設置了一下，發現只有在 International -> Language 裡設置為“簡體中文”才可以按照拼音排序。設置好之後再進入“音樂”，iPhone OS 會更新資料庫內容，之後就可以在各個字母分類中看到中文歌曲了。

不過限制就是必須要用簡體中文介面。

显示的昵称会被群组里实际的发言人代替

IP Locator 自去年 3 月升级到 1.3 之后再也没有更新过。几个月前 IP Locator 使用的 IP 信息来源网站改了 API 所以 IP Locator 也一直都无法使用，所以我一直在用 IP Address Locator 这个网页。

更新到 1.5 之后 IP Locator 改从 HostIP.info 查询信息，但是对城市的查询支持不太好，不管什么 IP 都是 unknown。

Dock

Updates Stacks with a List view option, a Folder view option, and an updated background for Grid view.

Desktop

Addresses legibility issues with the menu bar with an option to turn off transparency in Desktop & Screen Saver preferences.

看来群众的呼声还是有一定作用的，Apple 不再装聋作哑。可以 turn off transparency 之后我终于能任意选择壁纸了，噩梦结束。

收到了 Leopard 的 DVD，好小的盒子呀。

前因

风扇坏掉的原因可能是我在 Boot Camp 安装了 Windows XP Professional SP2 并且运行了好多大型软件。去年因为要用 Word 写论文还想玩 World of Warcraft¹，所以在 Boot Camp 安装了 Windows XP。运行了几次 WoW 后风扇已经发出类似转动时刮到东西的声音，随即变转为的嘶吼——这不是夸张的写法，我在其他房间都可以清楚的听到。在我准备送修的前一天，正在备份数据的时候，风扇奇迹般的停止了嘶吼！于是我满心欢喜的想既然它已经自愈那就不用送修啦！（事后我知道，其实当时是风扇彻底坏掉了）

iStat Menu

如果不是对 iSlayer 的 iStat Menu 感兴趣，我可能到现在都不知道左边的风扇已经死掉了。因为 MBP 的风扇声音平时不算大（1500 rpm 上下），所以虽然左边风扇停转了我还是没有觉得有什么异样。只是觉得风扇很容易转得很拼命（废话，只有右边风扇一个人，哦，一个扇在做事，当然拼命）。在升级了 Battery Updater 1.2 之后²用 Quicktime 看视频风扇都会呼呼作响让我很不爽，正好 iStat Menu 发布，我打算看看风扇到底转得有多快——安装，运行，选择风扇：Left: 0 rpm, Right: 4000 RPM。（惊）

后果

虾米？0 RPM？大哥你不是在拿我开心吧～ToT 又祭出 Apple Hardware Test 测试，发现错误 4MOT/1/40000002: Left_Middle-Front。接下来的一天里，右侧风扇也开始有了噪音，好像也出了问题。事不宜迟，赶快送到苹果维修中心。经过了 3 个星期之后，总算一切回复了正常。为什么这么久？因为他们忘记把 USB 接线插到 MLB 上，又送修一次。(▔﹏▔)||||||

所以这次风扇死掉之后要明白：

• Bootcamp 有风险，使用须谨慎
• 风扇如果有噪音，请用测试软件和 Apple Hardware Test 检测是否有问题，有问题要立刻送修
• 如果只用 Word 之类的软件，安装虚拟机也是不错的选择

提醒: 如果你的风扇也在发出很大的噪声，或者曾经有过很大的噪声但是自己又消失掉，请赶快检测一下吧。如果也出现了 0rpm 的风扇，或者 4MOT/1/40000002: Left_Middle-Front 错误，请立刻送往苹果维修中心修理，硬撑下去可能连累另一个风扇的健康状况。