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NVIDIA has released new drivers for the GeForce GTX 285 aftermarket graphics card which has been available for the Mac Pro. NVIDIA representatives have also informed MacRumors that the new driver will deliver “up to 20% better performance” f…

I’ll be away from Mac OS X Hints this week. In my absence, we’ll have a couple of Macworld staffers — Heather Kelly and Dan Miller — posting the daily hints. Please be kind to them; this is their first attempt at running the site!

I’ll be back in the editor’s chair starting on Monday, July 20th.

-rob.

I work in BBEdit a lot, so I wanted an easy way to access files I’d recently edited in it. To do so, I opened my home folder’s Library/Preferences/com.barebones.bbedit.PreferenceData folder in the Finder. From there, I dragged-and-dropped the Recent Files & Favorites folder to my dock. It was now a regular stack, populated only with recent BBEdit files.

To change the number of items in that stack, from within BBEdit, open Preferences and select “Application” from left-hand pane. There, change the number for the “Remember the __ most recently used items” setting to whatever you want.

Note: If you use TextWrangler instead, you can do the same thing dragging and dropping the /Preferences » com.barebones.textwrangler.PreferenceData » Recent Files & Favorites folder to the Dock.

This probably isn’t a hint so much as a, “Hey, I just figured something out”: In Apple Mail’s built-in RSS reader, you can view the author of a story in an RSS feed: Right-click on the bar with column-headers on it (Subject, Date, etc) and select “Author.” Adjust the columns to fit your preferences.

As far as I can tell, this is the only time you can select that Author headling; if you’re in a regular mailbox, it is grayed out.

Oftentimes when I’m listening to music in my library, randomly or in the “recently added” list, I’ll think to myself “wow — that’s a great love song, I need to add that to my ‘lovesongs’ playlist…” But I am too lazy (or busy) to switch to iTunes and drag it over. So I created an AppleScript that’s triggered by a keyboard shortcut to add the currently-playing iTunes track to a playlist I specify.

Features:

• Prompts you for the playlist name
• Will create the playlist if it doesn’t exist
• Will not add the track if it’s already on the designated playlist
• Designed to be executed with a hotkey “trigger” event (keyboard shortcut) with Quicksilver or some other shortcut program. See how-to on adding keyboard hotkeys with Quicksilver
• Unobtrusively shows the result with a growl message

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Vitaliy Pronkin is pleased announce the release of WikiPlaces for iPhone and iPod Touch. WikiPlaces provides simple and efficient way to access Wikimapia. Wikimapia is great resource with the aim of adding information like title, notes, photos and comments to all interesting locations on Earth. It currently has over 10,000,000 places marked all over the world. WikiPlaces uses publicly available KML feed from Wikimapia to overlay its objects over standard map like in built-in Maps application.

Airsource Ltd and Glasshouse Apps today released Cellar 1.0, a portable, swipeable showcase of your wine collection. Cellar is designed to keep track of your wine, and remember what to buy next time you visit the store, thanks to the app’s unique ‘Garage’ feature. Cellar is not just a list, it’s an actual Cellar.

Jumsoft today expanded its selection of templates for Apple’s Pages with a brand new line: Pages Templates Expert. This collection presents all the basic documents that a business is likely to need in an elegant, uniform style. Pages Templates Expert includes everything from business cards and envelopes to brochures, project proposals, and more. The line includes five packs of templates: Minimal, Fashion in Process, Flora, Summer Party, and Terra Spa.

Taiwanese news site InfoTimes reports [translation] that Apple is slated to debut its long-rumored netbook this October. Taiwanese companies Foxconn, Wintek, and Dynapack have reportedly received orders from Apple related to the manufacturing of the…

Lee Falin today released BoredBeGone 1.0 for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Just answer a few questions and BoredBeGone will help you find something to do. BoredBeGone not only gives you suggestions, but provides links to more information on each suggestion, teaching you new skills and helping you find the materials you need to cure your boredom. At home or on the road, alone or with a friend, BoredBeGone can help you conquer boredom forever.