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Google Widgets

Paul Westbrook | 23 February, 2006 21:59

Google has release three Mac OS X Dashboard Widgets.  I have installed the Gmail and Search History widget.

[via Google Blog]

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Encrypted AIM without .Mac

Paul Westbrook | 23 February, 2006 20:25

A while ago, I mentioned that it would be nice to make the encryption that is available in AIM for .Mac customers compatible with other AIM accounts.  The Off-the-Record Messaging program provides a proxy that enables this.  This proxy essentially provides all of the key management and the encryption support needed. 

Unfortunately, it is not really integrated well with iChat or Proteus.  You need to use the proxy to accept the public encryption keys from the people that you are chatting with.  There is a plugin for gaim, and there is built-in support in Adium X, so the interface should be better in those applications.

[via macosxhints]

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250 hp V6 in Nissan Sentra

Paul Westbrook | 23 February, 2006 20:05

VqspecvNow this is cool.  Someone fit the V6 engine from the Maxima, 350Z, and G35 into a B15 Sentra.  They are making a bolt in kit available for $4,500.  In addition, they are going to make it available for the B13 and B14 Sentra as well.

Maybe if I really want to increase the performance of our car, this is a very interesting option.

[via Autoblog]

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infrequently played podcasts

Paul Westbrook | 23 February, 2006 19:35

I just noticed that a lot of the podcasts that I have listed in iTunes had not been downloading new shows.  Also each of these had a exclamation point icon next to them.  At first, I though that this was because the rss feeds were not being parsed by iTunes.  When I clicked on the icon, I saw this message

Itunesstopdownloading

It looks like iTunes stops downloading podcasts if you don't listen to the shows.  I assume that Apple did this to prevent podcasts from filling up the disk.  This is fine, except it stops downloading them even if you manually delete the old files.  I think that they should change this to only stop downloading the new podcasts shows have not been listened to or have not been deleted.

In addition to that, iTunes should notify you that it stopped downloading podcasts.

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