palmOne Tungsten T5 Handheld will not charge via USB cable

PalmInfocenter.com: palmOne Tungsten T5 Handheld Review

The USB cable alone will not charge the handheld from the computer, you must attach the AC cord.

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One would hope they had a good reason for this decision.

macosxhints - 10.3: Skip disk image checksum verification

macosxhints - 10.3: Skip disk image checksum verification

defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify true

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I did this. Does seem faster. Oddly my network drive mounts seem faster too, but I assume that's an illusion ...

iMac G5 - upgrading the bundled drive

iMac G5: "I recently purchased a iMac G5 from Amazon using the link from your site. I plan on upgrading the hard drive when it arrives and it appears to use a standard SATA 3.5' drive. Has anyone else upgraded the hard disk in their G5 and if so whose product did they use?

[Apple's 160GB drive for the 20' model is a Seagate ST3160023AS, the same drive used in some Power Mac G5 models. There may be faster drives available, however. -MacInTouch]"

RDC 1.0.3 is out (Mac to Windows remote control)

MacInTouch Home Page

Microsoft's free Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 enables Mac OS X (10.2.8 and up) to connect to a Windows-based computer running Terminal Services or Remote Desktop Services and work with programs and files on that computer. According to Microsoft, the new version includes the following changes:

Remote Desktop Connection Client 1.0.3 for Mac provides improved stability when you minimize the client window and when you copy and paste data from the client window to Macintosh applications. Stability is also improved for users of Mac OS X 10.3 and later, and when Remote Desktop Connection Client is used on Macintosh computers with PowerPC G5 processors.

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RDC is one of Microsoft's most impressive works, one of the few areas they lead in.

Slashdot | Tracing the Evolution of Social Software (Collaborative tools)

Slashdot | Tracing the Evolution of Social Software

We need a new study -- the archeology of software. There's immense invention and richness in the world of pre-1990 software -- most of it lost and forgotten. This is the beginning of understanding what's been done.

Google Desktop Search Download

Google Desktop Search Download

I've been waiting months for this ...

Update: Ok, so it's a bit disappointing. No way to control where the index file is stored. It doesn't seem to index anything but the c: drive (that's quite surprising, maybe something is wrong ...). Doesn't seem to index even a mounted drive-file associated network share. Oddly enough, some VPN software is incompatible with GDS.

Yeah, it's "beta", but Google's so-called "Beta" software is generally pretty good.

There's a good chance, however, it will improve quickly.

Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD

There's a link on Dantz's web site for creating an OS X boot CD:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031

A tutorial on preparing a disaster recovery CD for Windows 6.5 pro:
http://kb.dantz.com/display/2n/index.asp?c=&cpc=&cid=&cat=&catURL=&r=0.6419031

And these directions: Retrospect 6.5 - creating a disaster recovery CD

Creating a Disaster Recovery CD : Retrospect’s Disaster Recovery preparation wizard can save a CD image file which you can later use with CD-R authoring and recording software to create a CD. The file is an image of a CD in the ISO 9660 format, which all popular authoring software can use to record, or "burn," a CD. Though most authoring software has the capability to burn a disc from an ISO image, some programs do not have an intuitive user interface for this feature and some programs poorly document this feature. The following is documentation for the most popular CD authoring software, detailing how to burn a disaster recovery CD from the image file saved by Retrospect.

Easy CD Creator (Adaptec/Roxio): Start Easy CD Creator and cancel any wizard that appears. From the File menu, choose Open CD Layout. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type from Easy CD Creator to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. In the CD Creation Setup window which appears, select your desired CD recorder, leave the write speed and options as they are, and click OK to begin recording your disc.

CD Extreme (Sony): Start CD Extreme. At the default CD Starter window, click on the CD Extreme button/combo box in the lower right to go into the full application. From the File menu’s New Job submenu, choose Global-Image or Other Image. Click the ’...’ button at the far right of the Disk Image File area. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to Other Image, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click the Burn button to begin recording your disc.

Nero Burning Rom (Ahead Software): Start Nero and close the new compilation window, file browser window, and any wizard that appears. Choose Burn Image from the File menu. In the file selection dialog, change the shown file type to All Files, navigate to the disaster recovery ISO image, select it, and click Open. Click OK if Nero informs you it does not recognize the format of the image file. Nero presents its Foreign image settings dialog, which should have default settings of Data Mode 1, block size 2048 bytes, other values zero, and boxes unchecked. Click OK to work with these settings for the ISO image. Nero presents the Write CD window. Click Write to begin recording your disc.