Mac OS X Leopard only: Run quick calculations from Leopard’s Spotlight search box. Enter your formula and the answer will appear as you type, similar to how it works in Firefox’s Google search box. Google’s implementation is a tad better; it can do metric conversion (try 24km in miles), but Spotlight’s good for pure math.
Spotlight [via Hawk Wings]Mac OS X Leopard only: One of the nice things about Stacks—or annoying things, depending on how you look at it—is that the topmost document icon appears on your Dock, instead of an indicator of which folder contains it. To solve this problem, the icon designer at Optica Optima’s offering a set of icons for download that add a drawer-like image to your Stacks. The screenshot above displays the Downloads, Applications, and Documents folders as Stacks sporting the drawer icons. Pretty! To add the icons to your Stacks, just download and unzip the package, and move the appropriate icon to the folder. For more fun along the same lines, here’s how to add custom icons for your Mac hard drives.
Stacks Overlays [XD via OS X Hacker]Leopard’s new and improved iChat boasts two features that are sure to enhance both workplace productivity and friends and family tech support: screen sharing and document sharing. In a nutshell, iChat now makes it dead simple to review documents with one or multiple chat partners in what it calls iChat theatre (pictured) or share screens—either your screen or the screen of the person you’re chatting with—VNC-style. That means that not only can you see what’s going on with the other person’s screen; you can also control it. More »
