If you too easily ignore the tiny “low battery” warning on your Mac, weblog Mac OS X Hints shares a script to make it warn you repeatedly and out loud that your battery is getting low.
If you trade a USB thumb drive, hard drive or other portable storage between Mac and Windows systems, the .DS_Store, .Trashes, and other starts-with-a-dot files left behind by Macs can get annoying. This script automatically wipes away those left-behind files.
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We’ve featured a few ways to keep your Windows desktop neat, but if you want to temporarily hide your Mac’s desktop icons, you can do so with a simple AppleScript and Automator.
Firefox/Chrome/Internet Explorer: Tweetfilter is probably the most powerful filter you can find for your Twitter stream, unless you start decoding Twitter’s API yourself. You can block phrases, retweets of certain users, particular web sites and services and nearly anything else.