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The makers of Welcome to Macintosh announced that the documentary will be available to all US Comcast Cable TV subscribers on Pay Per View beginning July 1st 2009. Comcast Subscribers can find it in the Pay Per View channels as well as the Movie section of their On Demand service. Welcome to Macintosh is a feature length documentary that explores the many ways Apple, Inc. has changed the world.

RapidWeaver Themes today announced Bravado, a brand new theme for the popular website creation tool RapidWeaver. Serving as a professional theme with easy to use features. Bravado offers users some new and unique options which make creating their website as easy as possible. Numerous color schemes and beautiful theme styles come pre-installed to help you get up and running in the shortest amount of time possible.

One thing I hate about Safari 4 is the relocation of the reload button to the right side of the URL entry area. Sure, you can still use Command-R , but for those who prefer navigating with their mouse alone, here’s a cool tip to somewhat solve your problem!

So, drag any of the buttons from my post to the far left of your bookmarks bar, and you’ve got a simple JavaScript reload button, just half an inch away from where the old one used to be! I’ve even been nice enough to create different designs using the “Special Characters…” dialog box in all Cocoa applications.

The simple javascript is:

javascript:location.reload(true)

I made them into buttons using some special characters like these: ⤶  ⌘ ⏎ ⎋

After upgrading to an iPhone 3GS, I was pleased to see the new option to send photos and movies to MobileMe. I have two MobleMe accounts configured in Mail on my iPhone: my ‘primary’ MobileMe account, and a MobileMe sub (‘family’) account. The primary account is set to only sync Mail to my iPhone, and the family account is set to sync Mail, Contacts, Calendars and Bookmarks (since you’re only allowed to fully sync/push one MobileMe account on the iPhone.)

The problem I found was that when trying to send a photo or a movie to MobileMe, the account that the iPhone insisted on using was my primary account. I searched settings and could not find anywhere to change this. I called Apple iPhone tech support, and although they understood the problem, they did not have a solution. (I called the day after the iPhone 3GS release, so they were understandably swamped!)

I just could not believe that the iPhone would not allow me to choose a different MobileMe account. Frustrated, I…

If you’d like to remove your Safari history files when you log out, first create the following shell script:

#!/bin/bash# Point this at your user folder.useroot=/Users/your_user# Clear Safari History (except for bookmarks).rm -f $useroot/Library/Safari/Downloads.plist $useroot/Library/Safari/History.plist rm -f $useroot/Library/Safari/HistoryIndex.sk $useroot/Library/Safari/TopSites.plist rm -f $useroot/Library/Safari/WebpageIcons.db $useroot/Library/Safari/LastSession.plist# Add any additional clean-up here.

Save the script somewhere, make it executable, and because it runs as root, make sure it is protected from modification. Then copy and paste this command into Terminal, modifying it to point to wherever you put the above script:

sudo defaults w...