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How to Turn Off Store Arrow Links in iTunes 8

This is a quick post to show how to turn off those annoying iTunes Store arrow links that light up next to every column in iTunes 8. Apple have taken out the checkbox to hide them in the preferences. I'm not sure if they did it to simplify that monster of a preferences window or if they wanted to send more people to the iTunes store, but! I'm glad they haven't disabled it altogether.

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

That is all.

Will the Real Techie Please Stand Up?

Happy new year! I had my ups and downs in 2007, but overall it was a great year for me and for Apple users in general.

As I was doing my year end review, one thing that stuck out was that 2007 was the year that I started taking workplace ergonomics seriously. I made some drastic changes and I would like to share how it made me a happier and more productive person.

Quiz

This is a question we ask when a conversation gets too heavy, especially while drinking:

There are 8 teddy bears. They all have the same weight, except for one that has a diamond inside, thus weighing more. You have a balance scale. How do you find the teddy bear with the diamond by using the scale only twice?

The first person to get the correct answer wins a copy of Podcast Maker. Post your answer as a comment.

Shanghai, Connecticut

Imagine my delight when I found out this morning that my ICBM (Intel Chip Based iMac) is finally shipping. I was half asleep after having woken up at noon as usual and after grokking and parsing out the fedex tracking number out of the shipment notification email, I proceeded on in excitement to the... Oh! it's shipping from Connecticut. That's weird, Shanghai, Connecticut. Oh, wait a minute... Nooooooo!

So now I have a widget sitting in my Dashboard that I will actually use, like every freaking five minutes.

Package Tracker Widget


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