Quicksilver is the most useful utility for MacOS X that I’ve ever used.

I love the idea of MacOS X 10.4’s “Dashboard”, but I don’t love Dashboard itself. In fact, I’m rather disappointed by Dashboard.

Dashboard allows you to use lightweight little applications called “widgets”. Widgets are built using technology similar to web pages - using HTML to represent the appearance of the widget and Javascript to do the computation associated with it. You wouldn’t want to build a big complicated application using HTML and Javascript, but you’d be fine building a flashy little applet.

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One happy book discovery I’ve made in the last few years is the Revelation Space series of science fiction books by Alastair Reynolds. The series runs four books and two novellas (collected in a single book).

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