Thanks to digg I stumbeld onto a very enterprising iWeb user who has “hacked” iWeb. She dug into the theme files and substituted new fonts and pictures to create a whole new look and feel. She did this for templates too.The site has instructions and downloadable files to use on your iWeb site. It seems to me that there is a new business growing here.

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Several blogs on the internet posted info on the patent claimed by Apple on new touch screen capabilities and uses. It seems that somebody on digg noticed something else too and that is that Apple aren’t the only ones who are thinking about it. Even beter there already is a demo video showing off some of the capabilities. So what’s going on here? Is Apple nicking ideas or is NYU developing technologies for Apple? Who knows, they only thing I know is that I like what I’m seeing and I can’t wait until Apple does something with it. You can check out the video at http://mrl.nyu.edu/~jhan/ftirtouch

This guy created his own local .Mac emulation – all the way from iCal publishing to tricking it into using the Backup program. He gives explict instructions on how to set this up. He gives example with a FreeBSD server, but he says it can be implemented easily on other platforms. Seems interesting I’ll try on my Fedora box sometime soon.

I normally wouldn’t publish about accessories on my blog, but for the ipod cases by C6 Manufacturing I’m making an exception. They have announced their carbon fiber case for Apple’s 5G iPod and for the iPod Nano. The $50 5G and $30 Nano case feature aerospace carbon fiber and aluminum construction with stainless steel screws. I just thought the cases looked really cool and deserved some attention from my part.

Is Steve misleading us … or is he realy the master of the Reality Distortion Field? Read this story and find out.

This site has taken some of the best open source software for Mac OS X, and made a convienient list. There’s some great stuff here. The list isn’t very long, but it has potential.

iTheater came through with their promise and released iTheater RC1. I’ve been waiting for this for a while and I am not disappointed. It seems to be stable (no craches yet) so far, but it’s not fuly functional or ready for an open source worthy 1.0 version label. For those of you who don’t know what I mean with “open source worthy 1.0 version label”, I would suggest you read Eric S. Raymond’s book The Cathedral & the Bazaar. I will be testing RC1 later this week and see if there is anything special to report.

I read the following tip on TUAW about quiting applications:

One of the key combinations that I use most on my Mac is Command Tab, which brings up the Application Switcher, as seen above (in most versions of OS X that is). This allows me to switch from one application to another just by hitting the Tab key to cycle through the running applications.You’re saying, ‘We know this already, Scott, what a lame tip!’ Well, did you know that you can quit an application without leaving the Application Switcher? It is true. Simply hit Command Tab to bring up the Application Switcher and Tab to the application you want to quit. Once it is highlighted, without lifting your finger off of the Command button, hit the Q. Poof! The application quits (assuming that there are no unsaved documents currently in the application).

After reading this I thought: “Are there more possiblities with the switcher?”. So I started trying some more wellknown key combinations and the best one I found is H. What you do is the same what Scott wrote a TUAW except when pressing Q just press H an boom the application is hidden.

Today another product joined the e-less naming zone, I’ve been trying to explain this new naming convention for (mostly) web 2.0 stuff and have so far been unsuccesful. The best thing I could come up with is that it’s web 2.0 slang. Anybody else got a suggestion?

Just one more week unitil iTheater RC1 sees the light. I was kind of hoping that Apple was going to beat the iTheater Project, but since Apple didn’t I’m putting my money on this project. It would even be kind of cool if Apple adopted this project and includes it on new macs