{"id":426,"date":"2006-09-28T19:11:13","date_gmt":"2006-09-29T02:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/28\/the-dork-report-for-september-28-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:58","slug":"the-dork-report-for-september-28-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-28-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for September 28, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim a space for yourself on the official site for Neil Gaiman’s new short story collection Fragile Things<\/em><\/a> (and see if you can find Neil while you’re at it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MyDreamApp round 2 voting [no longer online: mydreamapp.com] is open; vote for 12 out of 18 wannabe America’s Next Top Mac Programs. My favorite (the only one I can picture using) is still Ground Control<\/a>. The last round featured guest judge comments by Mac gurus including Cabel Sasser<\/a> from Panic<\/a>, and this time the guests are eminent bloggers from Daring Fireball<\/a>, The Unofficial Apple Weblog<\/a>, et al. (although they seem to be generally negative about everything!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AguaT<\/a>, a free band-aid for iTunes 7 that reverts the button styles back to iTunes 6-style blue glossy buttons. I’m all for fixing Apple’s questionable design choices, but I’m not into permanently mucking around with my system: “AguaT works by replacing elements of the \/resources\/ folder in the iTunes application. These changes are permanent to an installation of iTunes, so if you think you may want to revert back to the default iTunes 7 theme, you should back up iTunes.app before installation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An unnamed source told The Star<\/em> that unspecified producers of the Doctor Who<\/em> tv series “decided to make a big budget film.” [no longer online: entertainmentwise.com\/news?id=22809] What a tease; there’s no news here. Deciding<\/em> to make a big budget movie is decidedly different from procuring a big budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim a space for yourself on the official site for Neil Gaiman’s new short story collection Fragile Things (and see if you can find Neil while you’re at it). MyDreamApp round 2 voting [no longer online: mydreamapp.com] is open; vote for 12 out of 18 wannabe America’s Next Top Mac Programs. 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