2nd Best Widget

Many thanks goes out to TUAW for introducing me to the App Update widget. This little guy will check all your non-Apple Applications and report back if there is an update available. How neat is that?  As they put it, it’s like Software Update for all your Apps!

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I love to be on top of the technical news and latest happenings. I have RSS feeds from around the net and I’m constantly checking them for updates. This widget now allows me to do the same for all my Applications. Muhahahhahah. It’s super easy to use, and has a super clean UI.

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Check out the TUAW post above and download this widget.  It’s the best!

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I’ve posted the PeopleFinder widget that Jeff and I made up on Apple’s website.

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Jeff added a lot of cool functionality and code optimization to make it a really slick little ldap widget. Perhaps version 5.0 will have even more neat stuff!

You can download it here.

How to Zen a Intel Mac

Two of the members of the A&S ITS group here at SLU have discovered how to get a Novell ZenWorks image onto an Intel Mac. Dan Shown and Matt Goeke put their heads together and have documented the process here. This is a huge success for our group here at SLU.  We can maintain our Universal OS X image across both our PPC and Intel Macs along with being able to keep our Zen image congruent across all machines, PC or Mac, across the entire campus!

A bit of the Zoo at home

I have a friend who has a friend who knows someone who had the funniest story to share….

This family has a teenage son who suffers from Down Syndrome. One day he wanted to go to the Zoo, badly. The family agreed and they all packed up and headed to the Zoo. No sooner than they had parked the car had the son ran off into the Zoo. The family had a general idea of where he was headed and proceded to unload the car and tend to the other childern. As they headed into the Zoo their teenage son returns, dripping wet from head to toe. He is visibly shaking even with a jacket on. He tells them, “Cold! Go home now!” The parents, not wanting to spoil the day for the rest of the family, tell him that it’s ok and that there’s a change of clothes in the car. He adamantly responds,”No! Cold! Go Home!” The parents relinquish and everyone piles back into the car.
Upon arriving home the son runs into the home straight to the bathroom where he locks himself inside. The parents figure he was just warming himself up or taking a shower. After about half an hour the parents become concerned and tell the son to open the door. At that moment the parents realize the true reasons behind their son’s erratic behavior. He had smuggled a baby Penguin home from the Zoo.
Yes, that’s right. The drenched clothes, the jacket, and the exclamations of “Cold!” were all because there was a baby penguin stuffed in his jacket. The parents quickly called the Zoo, explained the story and asked what to do. The officials at teh Zoo told them to stay put, don’t call anyone we’ll be right there. Ten minutes later they arrived to retreive the baby penguin.

Now you know why there are guards posted in the Penguin House.