SimpleToDo is a very minimalistic to-do application developed by Julius Eckert. The only functions are to add a task, and to remove finished tasks. To add to the minimalist approach, everything in SimpleToDo can be manipulated with a keyboard if you're that type of person. Julius even offers a Quicksilver plugin for SimpleToDo so you can easily add a to-do via Quicksilver. If you just haven't found that perfect to-do manager, SimpleToDo is definitely one to check out.

One so-called "feature" in Leopard was that when the user ejected multiple partitions on a single hard disk at once, Leopard would display a dialog warning you that if you eject "Partition A," "Partition B" will be ejected as well. I was somewhat fine with having that dialog displayed, but was a little miffed because Tiger was so nice about things like this that it would just eject both partitions without complaint. But what really pushed this over the edge was that Leopard would tell the user this twice, once for each partition he was ejecting.

Fortunately, and thankfully this so-called "feature" (or what I would like to call a bug) is gone in the 10.5.2 update. Leopard now handles ejecting multiple partitions at once the same way Tiger did; without complaint.

Need a quick way close a Widget and are tired of clicking the + icon in the bottom left corner to get the X's on all of the widgets? All you have to do is hold down the Option key and move your mouse over a widget you want to close and the X will appear. Just click it, and it's gone. Simple as that.

Sometimes when you view an image in Quick Look, it's just too small to see an important detail. So what do you do? Open it in Preview? Probably, but not anymore. When you Quick Look an image, hold down the Option key and click to zoom in on the image, and when you're zoomed in, move around the image by clicking and dragging.

SuperDuper!, my favorite backup app has just had it's latest version released. The biggest fix in 2.5 is that it is now fully Leopard compatible. This update makes me very happy.

While SuperDuper! 2.5 was in development I tried out Time Machine and Carbon Copy Cloner. I don't like Time Machine because it wants a hard drive larger than the source and the backups that it makes aren't bootable. What I don't like about CCC is that it can't do incremental backups.

SuperDuper! just takes the cake as far as backup software goes and it's totally worth the price.

My clear marker lights came in for my truck today, so I installed them. It was really easy, just two torx screws and the lens slides out and the bulb twists out. I had to get some amber bulbs since it is illegal to have clear bulbs and clear lenses. So after I picked up some amber bulbs from an auto parts store I installed the new lenses. I think they look a lot nicer and cleaner than the amber lenses. I've got some new pictures up of them in my truck gallery.