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Color me surprised, but after seeing a few users reporting that the AOL Radio and Pandora apps worked on the cell network, I tested this in my truck yesterday afternoon.

Sure enough after pausing my Alpine iPod playback on the headunit I was able to listen to both Pandora and AOL Radio. Not all the AOL Radio channels are available. It appears that only real radio stations that also broadcast over AOL Radio are usable on the cellular data network, while I had no problems listening to my Pandora stations.

Picture if you will, an atypical late middle-aged male, wearing a black mock-turtleneck shirt with a mildly dark pair of blue jeans taking the stage, while holding a remote in his hand, and having an earnest look in his face. The lights fade, the screen glows and the man begins talking. That man is Steve Jobs and he's announcing a new iPhone model, possibly a new OSX version, and much more.

Ok you can go pee your pants now.

Time to clean my pants as well.

So, the latest release of Delicious Library came out the past weekend. The feature set improvements are great, now you can index your iTunes library as well as add other types of content.

One of the interesting things was that the new version warns you about a performance hit unless you are running 10.5.3. This is very interesting given that Apple hasn't released the 10.5.3 update yet.

The former great Southern comedian Lewis Grizzard had a saying for tourists and Yankees that didn't like things in Atlanta, "Delta's ready when you are." The same could be said for Switchers that have remorse over coming over to the Mac. The Macalope over at CNET has a great response to an article in ComputerWorld about some guy who does nothing but spread FUD about the Mac. Seriously, this kind of platform-assassination in an arguably industry-leading magazine? Enough already, can't we all just get along?

Today, March 31, 2008, is the expiration date for the beta of the Microsoft Remote Desktop client for Mac OS X.

What you get when running the client is a dialog informing you that the beta has expired and requesting that you update to the latest release. Naively I went to the MS site for Mac and found that they had not released anything newer than Beta 2.

Of course, you can just select the Continue Using the Beta button, but that can be a pain if you use it a lot.

I hadn't heard of it before the announcement, but MacTech magazine says that their MacForge.net site now is hosting more than 50,000 open source projects. Now, before you say "Wow! That's a lot of Mac programming! Why isn't Apple crowing about this?", you need to know what to expect. These aren't all Carbon and Cocoa apps, lots (probably most) are apps that involve other technologies that aren't Mac-specific, like PHP, X Windows. There is a toggle somewhere in the user preferences for the site that will "limit the view to those explicitly on the Mac." Even with all the non-Mac-specific stuff it seems like a great resource.

Have you noticed that your new mac keyboard's HOME/END keys don't really function as expected, or not at all? If they do function, do you want them to function like most other OSes out there where the HOME key takes you to the beginning of the line and the END key takes you to the end of the line, instead of the beginning of the document and end of the document respectively?

If so, try this on for size...

Open terminal and perform the following commands:

cd ~/Library
mkdir KeyBindings
touch DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Now edit DefaultKeyBinding.dict in whatever text editor you wish. I prefer vi.

vi DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Insert the following:

{
    /* home */
    "\UF729"  = "moveToBeginningOfLine:";
    "$\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* end */
    "\UF72B"  = "moveToEndOfLine:";
    "$\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:";

    /* page up/down */
    "\UF72C"  = "pageUp:";
    "\UF72D"  = "pageDown:";
}

Save the file, then restart any application to use these new key bindings.

NOTE: This may not work in Firefox.

If you happen to be using TaxCut 2007 for Mac OS X and find that it keeps crashing when you attempt to register, just skip the registration each time that you run the program.

I have tried almost every combination of entries that I can think of and it still crashes. But skipping it doesn't seem to hurt anything. I was able to continue to use the software with no issues at all.

Like most of us, I have become addicted to the ubiquitous little invention known as Post-it® notes. I use them for everything from writing down dates for meetings to what to buy on the way home from work.

While they are great for small, one-time throw-away notes, your desk can sometimes begin to look like it was painted in yellow (or whatever color you like best) paper when they end up being used for semi-permanent knowledge.

For those of us that continually try out new pieces of software, a major OS update is the perfect time to do some house cleaning and clear out all that cruft.

But if you are planning on doing that with OS 10.5, here's something you need to know: the data formats for iCal and Addressbook are different than in 10.4. What this means is that you can't just overwrite your new iCal and Addressbook data with your backup and expect everything to work just right.