if you are like me and can't wait for the new iPhone 2.0 handsets to come out and need to know just how long you will need to wait, you need a desktop widget. I spent a bit of time tonight looking around for a good looking one but couldn't find one that was actually for the 11th and not the original iPhone 1.0 shipping date.

So, I just downloaded the best looking iPhone countdown widget i could find - the one from the lads at Jaws software is great (just scroll down a bit). Go ahead and download/install it...

then start a little diging around.. inside the widget code (found here ~/Library/Widgets/iPhone CountDown.wdgt) is a little file called attributes.js. Open it up in your text editor of choice and and just ignore that big fat 'DO NOT EDIT' warning and just change the line starting TargetDateTime to the following

targetDateTime: new Date('11 Jul 2008 9:00:00 +1000'),

and away you go!

I just came across this very cool plugin for iphoto called FFXporter it makes life so much easier and the best thing is that it is totally free!

Any just thought I should share!

I often find myself with two computers on my desk and struggle to make the mouse pointer jump across to the other screen which never actualy works as they are different computers.

Enter Synergy It is a neat little app that allows you to attach that other computer as another screen of the one you are using!

Just set up the machine you use the most as the server and then run the client on the other machine. With a little config you specify which computer is on the right or left of what and away you go!

The only hard thing to remember is that the windows key and the apple keys are do different things ( still need to get my head around apple+c and control+c are both paste!)

I have always just relied on one hostname, localhost when developing on my mac which has only just struck me as a little strange. On my PC in the office, there is a huge long list of other host names all pointing back to localhost.

I decided that I should make the leep and just do the same with my hosts file on the mac but I thought their might be a better way... A quick google comes up with a post on viebrock.ca that talks about exactly how to get it all happening.