Cork'd
), it's a great site that lets you read
and write reviews, take personal notes, or just keep track of wines
you've tried or want to try.
Cork'd can also log all the wines in your cellar for you with
vintages, varietals, scores, average prices, reviews, and quick
easy to use tasting tags (for example: cherry, honeydew melon,
raspberry, apple, et cetera). Once you have an account, get some
drinking buddies and recommend wines to each other! It's a great
way to find the best wines at reasonable prices, let someone else
try them first... 
Afloat Goes 2.0
. Until
Afloat
2.0 was released just recently! The old Afloat was great, but it
was broken when Apple upgraded to 10.5 Leopard.
Afloat is an app that lets you make windows transparent and adds
various other superfluous effects to all cocoa
apps.
A quick FREE download and you'll all ready to go! Just open up any cocoa application (Safari and iChat for example) and click on the "Window" menu item. Any option with a little cloud next to it is a special Afloat add on.
Facebook Chat
You could always see who was on Facebook right now by going to "Friends > Who's Online" but now you can go one step further and talk to those that are online right away. The chats are instant messages just like AOL Instant Messenger so there's no need to wait for a reply like in a personal message or wall post. Want to check it out? Go to Facebook right now, look on the bottom right corner of your window and you'll see the new chat box. Neat huh?
NOAA.gov Buoys
This recorded data is then sent by satellite back to home base and
is actually posted on their website every 10 minutes!!! Wicked
cool!!! The information that is recorded is ridiculously in depth
too, the best parts are the height of the swells, the length of the
period between swells, the water and air direction, water and air
temps, et cetera. Check it out, there's even an
RSS
feed!
LED Magic
Panoramio
Yet another FREE Google service that is awesome! Panoramio is a great web based service that provides the same service as Flickr's geo tagging, except Google takes it one step farther, you can then see those tagged photos right in Google Earth when you view that area!!! Pretty cool huh?!?!
Here's what the site looks like
Here's what that looks like in google earth with a photo
selected
Leopard Volume!
"Sure, you can use the volume key on your MacBook or Apple keyboard to do quick volume changes, but that doesn't adjust the volume that precisely. If you want to fine tune your volume, you have to either open System Preferences or click on the volume icon in the menu bar. However, you can also tweak the volume by holding down the option + shift keys and tapping the volume up/down keys on your keyboard.
As an additional note, you can also hold down the shift button
while pressing the volume keys to mute the "pop" that you hear when
pressing the volume key.
If you want to permanently silence the volume-adjust beeping, uncheck "Play feedback when volume is changed" in the Sound Effects preference pane and it won't bother you again (helpful for podcasting or other situations when you might need to adjust your volume on the fly)."
Calibrate Your Screen
Macworld has this slightly old, yet still accurate article on how to set up your screen quickly and accurately. It was a great help when trying to match my two screens so they were similarly and accurately displaying color.
Syslogd Process
Or you could write an Applescript that says the
following:
This is what I do because I use the scripts menu item and I can
access and run this and other commonly used scripts with just a
quick click. I like menu items a lot, what can I say?
Flickr Pro
With the Flickr 
account you are given unlimited storage, unlimited photo sets, a
permanent online archive for your photos, ad free browsing and
sharing, account and photo statistics, and the photo quality has
essentially no resolution limit.
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