Overload

Apparently if you want to print equations from Word 2007 on Windows XP you need to patch your system manually. Thanks Microsoft.

Recently stumbled across this, which does a nice job showing the lyrics of the currently playing song in iTunes on your desktop.

http://code.google.com/p/cdto/

The night closed in
Upon the withering pen
And as it wrote
It was smote
The tree could do no more

Why doesn’t Quick Look support CSV natively? Oh, well: http://code.google.com/p/quicklook-csv/

Proximity

See also:

• http://www.technocrat.ca/?p=44#more-44
• http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2008/05/30/your-mac-knows-when-youre-home.html?page=1

This looks interesting: http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/

$50 is way too much for the Wolfram Alpha iPhone app.

I finally had a bit of time off, so I spent a couple hours setting up a small PHP script to query my Windows Live Mail (junk mail) account for new messages and send me a Prowl notification when new mail is received. The script runs as a cron job on my web host and nicely accomplishes the otherwise impossible – since Microsoft still doesn’t provide POP or IMAP access for Windows Live Mail.