A utility for creating custom shows in PowerPoint

Shyam's Toolbox for PowerPoint - Home

Add to Custom Show is a personal favorite. I find it easy to switch to slide sorter view, select the slides in the order in which they show appear in the custom show, right-click & select 'Add to Custom Show'.

It's $50 as it's really a part of a developer toolkit, not an end-user utility. A bit steep for my purposes.

OS X password creator guides

macosxhints - 10.4: Create strong and memorable passwords

but an article here mentions this was available in 10.3 - sort of.

Spotlight tips and tricks

macosxhints - 10.4: Some Spotlight tips and tricks

Also, see this Apple programmers reference for fuller syntax.

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.