TAGBAG Dashboard Widget: spotlight metadata management

TAGBAG Dashboard Widget

...One of the proposals for getting things done via Dashboard and Spotlight is to tag your files via the built-in Spotlight-Comment option. This allows to set several tags for every important file you have, and later on you can search for these tags, or simply created searchable folders which consist out of all those files containing special tags...

Tagbag helps you to keep track of which tags you used. It always shows a list of all tags you have been using so far. This makes it easier for you to just use a small but sorted set of tags, without forgetting about which tags you used where. In addition to that it allows you to see a list of all files having a certain tag by simply clicking on the tags name...

Similar to the way labels work in Gmail.

Moving about images in iPhoto 5 and prior

ExtraBITS

"In versions of iPhoto before 5, when you zoomed in on a photo in edit mode, you could hold down the Command key to drag the image around; it was a lot easier than using the scrollbars to move around within the image. In iPhoto 5, though, Apple made Command-clicking while in edit mode set a white point for the image (it works only if you click on an appropriately white part of the image), and as far as I knew, eliminated entirely the Command-dragging approach to moving around while zoomed in. Kudos to Markus Silpala, then for discovering that you can in fact still drag a photo in edit mode to move around - the trick in iPhoto 5 is that you must hold down the Spacebar while doing so."

Disabling the obnoxious Symantec Norton Antivirus security alerts when auto-protect is off

MCSE World Forums - Symantec Security Alert - How do I stop them?

I don't like the 50% performance hit induced by NAV scanning. I'm inclined to take a chance on leaving it off much of the time (I have pretty excessive backup tendencies); I'll still run my nightly full system scan and the mail scans should still work.

Problem is, Norton produces an obnoxious alert every five minutes if one disables the auto-protect feature. Thank heavens, this works:

Take the path C:\Program Files\Common Files\Symantec Shared\Security Center\ to locate two files; symwsc.exe and symwscno.exe. Create a new folder in the same directory and place the two files in it rather than delete them (just in case...). You shouldn't get the alerts after this.

Thanks shingirai kanyemba.

Remove DRM from iTunes music: JHymm

JHymn Info and Help

If I've paid for music and I will be using it in a way consistent with fair use, I have no personal issues removing DRM protection. Here's how.

Apple Remote Desktop (ARD) client service is now installed by default in 10.4

macosxhints - Some Apple Remote Desktop client features

Nice tips for ARD use. So now we hear ARD is installed by default. We also hear about slates. Any chance Apple will do video iPod peripherals that also allow remote access to a Mac machine?

macosxhints - 10.4: How to rotate OS X's display

macosxhints - 10.4: How to rotate OS X's display

Includes fixes for when rotation disables a display! Read before trying.

Print graph paper of every variety - on demand

Free Online Graph Paper / Grid Paper PDFs

A very clever idea. How subversive. Using PDF and the web, two advanced technologies, to create graph paper for use with pen and pencil.