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http://www.adiumx.com/

Recommended to me by Todd Dailey, wonderful human being that he is, during a discussion about encryption. Adium allows you to log into multiple services at once (ie: AIM *and* .Mac), use tabbed windows, and what brought me to Adium, is it’s most excellent encryption (OTR, or “Off the record” messaging).

Oh, the graphics are really cute, too.

A top OTR link is here, if you’d like more info on it:

http://www.cypherpunks.ca/otr/

Apple is celebrating its 30th birthday. How much do you know about the company? Take the BBC quiz and find out.

Here’s the URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4860790.stm

I got 7 out of 10 (I missed 2, 6 and 8).

Ever lost track of where your cursor is on a cluttered screen? This has sure happened to me, especially with higher screen resolutions. Well, I just read about a program called Mouse Locator (www.2point5fish.com ) that solves this problem.

After a certain period of time of not moving your cursor, you get a big green bulls-eye graphic around the cursor the next time it’s moved. The application is free, so I decided to give it a shot. And it works! You’ll want to set the amount of time of not moving the mouse before the bullseye appears. To change the settings, go to System Preferences. Pretty handy for those of us with less than perfect vision.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/08/19/clamav.html?page

One complaint about this product has been that it does not disinfect files the way Norton’s product does.

http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/virus_protection

Was sent a question from Chris at CBS:

Where does the Video I-Pod stand with being able to import video from TiVo unit directly? Like, when I have my Mythbusters show on my Directv play list and I want to download it to a video I-Pod for the train ride. Do I first have to go through a computer? Is the technology for that direct connect there yet? Thanks Brother!

Great question. Here’s a link to the TiVo site about their intentions to bring TV programming to the iPod the first quarter of this year (press release from 11/05):

Thanks to Steve and Johnnie and WGN for the media badge. Listen to our broadcast on Website Wednesday Night starting just after 11PM CST, broadcast across 38-states, old-school style radio on AM 720, or via the internet, new-school style. http://www.wgnradio.com

With a glance at my badge, the security guard dressed from Men in Black, directed me to a mob of journalists and other pretenders with media badges where we waited for 45 minutes prior to Steve Jobs’ keynote address. Listening to them speculate about Steve’s announcements, the mostly young and wrinkle-clothed crowd glanced excitedly around them, smiling nervously, some gathering around authoritative-sounding prognosticators, others quietly text-messaging or sitting on the floor typing into their laptops. http://www.moscone.com/