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• super OS X menubar items
  Yet more OS X apps that sit in your menubar
  (categories: menubar productivity osx)
• Andy Rutledge :: Male Designer
  Love the sidebar – I wonder if I could drive something similar from my del.icio.us feed…
  (categories: del.icio.us webdesign css)

• Ranchero Software: MarsEdit 1.0
  Another blog editing client for OS X
  (categories: blogging osx)
• Jewelboxing – CD and DVD Cases
  Lovely Jewel cases for CD and DVD’s. Bit pircey though. $44 for shipping to the UK? You have got to be frikkin kidding me…
  (categories: audio dvd music packaging design)

• adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications
  (categories: webdesign javascript ajax)
• Synergy – iTunes menubar for OSX
  Control iTunes from your menubar
  (categories: osx iTunes)
• IC-Switch
  A switch in the OSX menubar that lets you toggle your default news reader, ftp tool and more
  (categories: osx webdesign tools)
• MenuCalendarClock – instant calendar and clock
  Sits in your menu bar and syncs with iCal
  (categories: osx iCal pim tools)
• Cocoalicious: A Cocoa del.icio.us Client for Mac OS X
  (categories: osx del.icio.us tools)
• iPulse 2.1
  Shows system statistics in the menubar
  (categories: osx systemtools statistics)
• Lloyd’s Lounge: Gee!
  A little app that sits in your menubar and listens to Atom feeds, such as your gmail inbox
  (categories: gmail atom osx menubar)
• From LaunchBar to QuickSilver: Search Channels
  Triggering google searches from QuickSilver using Acid Search
  (categories: osx quicksilver google)
• Mini Mi – The Compact Stacking Speaker
  A possible match for my mac mini…
  (categories: macmini speakers gadgets)
• Edgewall Software: QUnitTest
  A python testing framework by the makers of Trac
  (categories: python testing tdd trac)
• Memoization and JBoss Clustering
  ONJava.com
  (categories: jboss clustering)
• Clustering with JBoss 3.0
  ONJava.com detailing the clistering support in jboss 3.0
  (categories: jboss clustering)
• Load Balancing and Failover in the JBoss Application Server
  Sacha Labourey on the design of JBoss’ clustering
  (categories: jboss ieee clustering)
• JBoss’ clustering project
  (categories: jboss clustering)
• Cellphone bomb detonator
  I’m impressed and appalled at the same time at the use of this mobile phone as a bomb detonator
  (categories: mobilephone terrorism iraq)
• Nokia halts mobile fuel cell plan
  No! I want the future they promised me – where is my damn jetpack?
  (categories: mobilephone fuelcells nokia)
• ConceptDraw
  Looks like I might of found a Visio equivilent for the mac…
  (categories: visio drawingtool osx commercialsoftware)
• Visual Vocabulary for Information Architecture
  Jesse James Garrett on using diagraming tools for expressing information arhitecture
  (categories: informationarchitecture visio drawingtools visualrepresentations)
• OmniGraffle
  From the OmniGroup (think: OmniWeb) another visio alternative – this time mac only
  (categories: visio osx commercial diagramming graphics drawingtools visualrepresentations)
• Visio Cafe
  A whole host of visio stencils
  (categories: visio stencils)
• How Firefox Works
  A good piece of firefox advocacy, aimed at non-techies
  (categories: browser firefox advocacy)

• Panic – Transmit 3 – The next-generation Mac OS X FTP client!
  (categories: ftp osx)
• skEdit v3.5 – skti
  A web development tool for OS X
  (categories: osx webdesign)
• Flying Meat: FlySketch
  (categories: osx drawingtool)
• iTerm
  (categories: osx terminal)
• Macworld: Free Your Music
  A roundup of iPod speaker options
  (categories: apple gadgets ipod speakers)
• The Trac Project
  A wiki + issue management with subversion integration
  (categories: trac scm wiki build subversion)
• Problems with Trac? Switch to FSFS
  Simon details how to solve some issues with Trac by using subversion’s FSFS support, and some tips to installing with Fink
  (categories: fink trac subversion scm build wiki)
• MyBlogLog
  (categories: blogging movabletype blogs tracking stats)

More meme shenanigans from Simon, this time I’m supposed to: “Copy the list on to your blog, put in bold the ones you have listened to (completely from begining to end) and then add three more albums that you think people should have heard.”

• Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band – The Beatles
• London Calling – The Clash
• Blood Sugar Sex Magik – Red Hot Chilli Peppers
• Think Tank – Blur
• This is Hardcore – Pulp
• Moon Safari – Air
• Elastica – Elastica
• Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols – Sex Pistols
• OK Computer – Radiohead
• The Kiss of Morning – Graham Coxon
• Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders from Mars – David Bowie
• The Wall – Pink Floyd
• Setting Sons – The Jam
• America Beauty – The Grateful Dead
• Toxicity – System of a Down
• Train a Comin’ – Steve Earle
• Folksinger – Phranc
• Come From the Shadows – Joan Baez
• Bat out of Hell – Meatloaf
• The River – Bruce Springsteen
• The Very Best of Joan Armatrading – Joan Armatrading
• Copperhead Road – Steve Earle
• Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
• Brothers In Arms – Dire Straits
• Outside – David Bowie
• Passionoia – Black Box Recorder
• Version 2.0 – Garbage
• Too Young To Die (Greatest Hits) – St. Etienne
• The Complete Recordings – Robert Johnson
• Absolution – Muse

• Kind of Blue – Miles Davis

  And a toughie, but the first three that come to mind:

• The Soft Bulletin – The Flaming Lips
• Queens of the stone age – Songs for the Deaf

• Ryan Adams – Heatbreaker