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Speed Mail.app

Paul Westbrook | 01 March, 2007 21:26

This post on on Hawk Wings has a suggestion on how to speed up Mail.app.  Essentially this tip removes the fragmentation from the subjects table of Mail's sqlite database.  (VACUUM documentation page)

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Copy files with resource forks through ssh

Paul Westbrook | 01 March, 2007 21:15

This hint on macosxhints has a tip on how to preserve resource forks for file copies through ssh.  

scp -E user@host:path/filename path/

This will copy both the data and resource forks, if both machines are running Mac OS X 10.4.

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Vidalia

Paul Westbrook | 01 March, 2007 21:07

I am very interested in supporting projects and software that promote privacy and security.  I just discovered Vidalia, which is a cross-platform GUI for Tor and Privoxy.

Tor is a network of virtual tunnels that allow network traffic to be sent securely and privately around the internet.  Privoxy is a web proxy that blocks cookies, and removes ads.

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Traffic on Google Maps

Paul Westbrook | 01 March, 2007 13:20

Google Maps just added real-time traffic data to their maps.  With a quick glance, you can tell which roads are congested.  To view this information while looking at a map or at driving directions, all you need to do is click on the "Traffic" button.

There are a couple of features that I would love to see added:

  1. When the returned driving directions use roads that are showing slow traffic, there should be an option to regenerate directions to avoid those roads.
  2. When viewing driving directions, there should be a "Notify of Traffic Problems" button.  When you click this button, you would be able to enter your cell phone number.  Now, if any of the roads included in the driving directions experiences a slow down, a text message would be sent to your cell phone, with that warning.

[via Google Operating System]

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