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Web apps like Google Docs, Basecamp, Gmail, Pandora, etc are just that: web applications that all live within your web browser. How many times have you quit Gmail only to forget about all the other browser windows you had open!? How many times has your web browser crashed and with it your open web apps!?

If you're wanting to be able to treat your web apps like local apps, check out Fluid (mac only). Fluid takes a website address and converts it to a local app, so rather than opening your browser to go to Google docs, you just click the google docs icon in your dock bar. Now your browser and Google docs are separate. It's awesome and free! Check it out peeps.

http://fluidapp.com/

OmniGraffle is an outstanding application for creating flowcharts and wireframes on mac. I created a stencil set for talk/conversation bubbles.

Download Talk Bubble Stencil (4kb - version 1.0)

Requirements: OmniGraffle 4 or OmniGraffle Professional 4 Mac OS X 10.3.9 “Panther” or later.

1. Insert a blank CD
2. Open the Disk Utility application (found in your Utilities folder)
3. Choose Images -> Burn to select a .iso disk image file to burn onto a new CD

The Office XP and 2003 applications (powerpoint, word, excel, etc) may freeze or hang when searching for clip art. If repairing your installation does not resolve this issue, read on.

By default, microsoft assumes that when you search for clip art not only do you want to search your hard drive you also want to connect to the internet and grab related images from office.microsoft.com. Privacy issues aside, this can cause your computer to hang if the office web site is down or there are many online images returned from the search. Worst yet, it seams these images are not cached. Thus the same search will re-download all the images over and over and over again.

You can disable this feature by navigating to insert > picture > clip art and clicking on the drop-down selection box that says "Search all collections". There is a checked-box label "web". Uncheck it.

In this series, you'll learn how RSA and DSA authentication work, and see how to set up passwordless authentication the right way. In the first article of the series, Daniel Robbins focuses on introducing the RSA and DSA authentication protocols and showing you how to get them working over the network.

http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html