Spotlight and disk images

macosxhints - 10.4: Enable Spotlight for disk images

Plist editing and extracting editor using Pacifist from Developer Tools

macosxhints - 10.4: Convert new plist files between XML and binary

Workaround for QT 7 bug with movie properties inspector

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)

Databases - what's next

ACM Queue - A Call to Arms - Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured database architectures is now finally at hand.

A mildly technical but readable overview of what's happening to the foundation of most business systems.

Review this list prior to a Tiger upgrade

Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger Incompatibilities and Workarounds

I won't upgrade before 10.4.1, but even then this is a good list to review. I'm a bit stunned that there still seem to be firewire drive problems.

Troubleshooting Safari: try deleting cookies.plist

PLISTs, caches and permissions cause an unusual number of OS X problems:

MacInTouch Home Page: "After doing an 'Archive and Install' with Tiger I was having a lot of problems visiting various websites with Safari 2.0. I kept getting an error page saying that Safari had 'Lost the network connection' and gave the following error 'NSURLErrorDomain:-1005'. One of the problem websites was in fact www.apple.com.
After a ton of troubleshooting I found the solution to the problem. I had to delete my Cookies.plist. The file is located in ~/Library/Cookies. Once this file was removed all sites could be loaded again."

Photo management using Gallery

Gallery :: your photos on your website

A very impressive and free project. Albums have RSS feeds. Most would want to keep their albums on a local machine and mirror remotely to publish.