While cleaning out some folders in my harddrive this night I found some screenshots back from October 2007 I didn’t want to keep back.

The 2 following images show an occurence at Amazon.de, the german pendant homepage of the most famous allround-webshop. I’ve taken those while I was peeking around Amazon to see whether Leopard was ready for pre-order and if Tiger would be pricedropped. But they still only had Tiger in their assortement.

Except for…

Huh? Is that a sneaker? I want to see that in detail!

I swear that I didn’t touch those pictures to apply a cheap retouch or anything. It’s the actual webshop I was presented when browsing a category “Max OS X Tiger”.

Probably some product-to-image ID-interference thing occured there. No big thing of course…I’m sure Amazon fixed it the very same day.

iuneWind is a designer from Samara, Russia that creates some fantastic digital artwork.
I really love the organic style and the attention to detail in every artwork, which is consistently taken through all elements.
Check out those incredible, colorful wallpapers!

Happy New Year to all of you!

As a cake baker, I’ve always been curious about new CakePHP releases. Especially new versions in the 1.2 branch because I’m working on 4-5 projects that are built with 1.2 – tapping the full potential of bulit-in features such as I18n, pagination and advanced HABTM associations.

Since the 1st of January the dev-team of CakePHP published new releases.
Stable 1.1.19.6305 (Changelog) and Beta 1.2.0.631 (Changelog)

Also the homepage of CakePHP got a new rockin’ 2008 design with a sliding content-box.
The new top-level menu button Planet now also features the most important resources for development with this great framework.

Happy baking and a prosperous 2008!

This is a thing I discovered on digg today. If you are enjoying an installation of Apple’s new Leopard OS X you can change the visual appearance of the three-dimensional dock by replacing 5 graphic-files of the Dock package.

Download files from InsideMacGames forum

I tried it out and copied the example graphics into the instructed folder. You then only need to ‘reset’ the Dock application by executing killall Dock in the Terminal.

The new dock

The new glossy Leopard Dock provides more contrast and visual appeal

The standard Dock

The standard Leopard Dock is also nice, but lacks contrast

I personally like the jet-black glossy version better and will stick with it. Really slick.

This mod also makes the glowing dot indicators for active apps better recognizable. People who like to have the old fashioned black triangle indicators back should read this article on Silver Mac.

Detailed instructions on how and where to replace the neccessary files are included with the download ZIP.

I’m not a MySpace member myself but I tend to listen to one or another song once in a while. It’s a great way to discover new tunes or watch newcoming superstars grow as they publish their songs on MySpace.

Since MySpace is especially popular among musicians for its audio streaming capability, one could expect that MySpace designers and developers dedicate an extra focus to this functionality.

The user experience I’ve made with their embedded Flash player shows me they don’t.

Read the full entry "5 Design Flaws In The MySpace Audio Player"

It’s a quite common problem along Mac OS X users that have once tried to uninstall Adobe’s Creative Suite 2. There’s a nasty leftover in the trash: An HTML file from the CS2 legal disclaimer docs named Tieng Viet.html.

The filename includes special Vietnamese characters and therefore is hard to handle for UNIX when rewriting the directory contents.

How to get rid of this file? Research showed me that there are at least 6 ways to accomplish the deletion of the localized file.

Read the full entry "Undeletable CS2 files in OS X Trash"