After running a developer build of Leopard for the past week and a half, there is one feature that I have come to hate. Stacks. They can be nice if you just have a folder that you throw a few documents or pictures in here and there, but there really is no use for them, at least the way I used folders in the Dock in Tiger. To me, Stacks have become a nuisance, sure they look pretty, but they don't seem to serve much of a purpose besides looking cool.

Luckily for me, and anyone that reads this that likes how folders in the Dock worked in Tiger, I have found a way to circumvent stacks in Leopard's Dock. What you have to do is create and Alias of the folder you want in the Dock and put that Alias in the Dock. Doing that makes the folder in the dock open up in a Finder window.

I think I'm decided on the tablet that I am going to get. The one I want is the Bamboo Fun tablet from Wacom. I would like the the Graphire Bluetooth tablet, but I'm not prepared to shell out $250, the $100 for the small Bamboo Fun tablet is right up my alley as far as pricing goes and what I would like as far as features go.

I'm in the market for a graphic tablet to use with Photoshop. There have just been times that it's a pain to do something with a mouse knowing that it would be almost 100 times easier to do it with a tablet. If anyone had any recommendations, lay 'em on me.

I honor of the release of Leopard in just 8 days, I have made a simple countdown widget for Dashboard.

Download it

Here's two funny music videos that a kid at my school has made. These both are very funny, so watch them.

The Lion Sleeps Tonight
It's Magic

Leopard is coming. The release date is October 26. Just 10 days from now. I can't wait for the final.

As you can guess by the title of this post, a web based CMS (Content Management System) had little success for me.

I first tried Movable Type, but it failed to install correctly for me twice. After that I moved on to try out Drupal. It installed great, but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted very easily. If I do go web based, Drupal will probably be my first choice though. Wordpress came after Drupal. It installed very quickly, but I'm just not to fond of it, as far a the ease of customizing themes.

Now, I am back with my favorite CMS, which isn't web based and is Mac only, RapidWeaver. It really is an awesome program and well worth the $50 Realmac Software charges for it. It's ease of use is incredible, and it's flexibility is amazing. Anywhere you can put text, you can drop in html or any web code and RapidWeaver will do what it needs to do and display or hide that code correctly. It's a very nice app. The only big downside for me is that it's not web based and Mac only.

If I ever get away from the Mac OS I will move my site to Drupal.

I am going to try moving my site and blog to the Moveable Type platform. It should be better for me because I will be able to post and edit the site anywhere I am from the web and I won't have to use proprietary software (although it is very nice software that I have come to love) that only runs on OS X to update my site and blog.

That being said, wish me luck. My site will probably be down for much of the day, so don't panic.

VMware Fusion, my favorite virtualization program for OS X, has it 1.1b. For me, the most important fix is that Air Port will no longer spas out and take up 100% of my CPU. The true test for that will come on Monday when I'm at school. For some odd reason Air Port will only do that at my school and not when I'm at home or at church.

Another new feature that I find pretty cool is that you can now hide the status bar at the bottom of the OS window to gain some screen real-estate.

Keep it up VMware!

Update: I can vouch that the Air Port bug is fixed. It's nice not having to restart it every time I get onto my school's WiFi network.