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# Google - Picasa Web Albums Uploader allows you to upload photos from your Mac to Picasa Web Albums. It comes with a stand-alone uploader application and an iPhoto plugin. You drag photos into the stand-alone app, name the album, and click the upload button. You select photos in your iPhoto library and use File/Export... to upload them. You get 250 megs of free storage for your web albums, and you can pay for more. Albums can be public, listed on your main page, or private, with hard-to-guess URLs that you can give out to only the select few. You need an account to use Picasa Web Albums, but it's free. If you have a Gmail account, you'll see a "Photos" link at the top of the Gmail screen. picasaweb.google.com/billstclair/IMacPr0n is my iMac unpacking photos, which I uploaded with the stand-alone app. I tested the iPhoto plugin, too, with a private photo album. Very nice.

# Taco Widgets - CharacterPal is a Dashboard widget that shows you the option-key combination or HTML ampersand code or URL code for a bunch of special characters. Free. Tiny. See the Read Me file for instructions for moving the widget to the desktop. I used it to discover that the "A" with the circle on top in "Dag Ågren" is spelled "Å" in HTML. [irc]

# Dag Ågren - Xee "is a lightweight, fast and convenient image viewer and browser. It is designed to be a serious tool for image viewing and management, with a sleek and powerful interface." Good replacement for Preview's image functions.

# Dag Ågren - The Unarchiver knows how to unarchive a huge number of formats. And it's much faster than Stuffit Expander. [irc]

# Laminar Research - X-Plane is a very nice flight simulator. It has FAA approval for training towards an airline transport certificate. The $69 version comes with 60 gigabytes of world-wide terrain data on 7 DVDs. The $49 version comes with a single DVD of your local terrain data (determined by the address to which it is shipped). The demo version, which I installed, is a 680 meg download, resulting in a gigabyte of disk usage. The demo allows eight minutes of joystick flight, or unlimited mouse flight (which is not much fun). Available Aircraft include Hindenburg, F-4 Phantom, FA-22 Raptor, Cessna 172SP, King Air B200, Piper_PA-46-310P, S-H Cirrus, B-52G NASA, B747-400 United, B777-200 British Airways, KC-10, Bell 206, Bell 47, Robinson R22 Beta, S-61, MarsJet, MarsRocket, Northrop B-2 Spirit, Rockwell B-1B Lancer, SR-71 Blackbird-D21a, GP_PT_60, Raptor_30_V2, Japanese Anime, Bombardier Canadair CL-415, Space Shuttle, F-35 JSF, Royal Navy Sea Harrier, V-22 Osprey, X-15, X-30 NASP, and some silly made-up planes from Austin Meyer. There are also applications for designing your own airplanes, airfoils, and worlds.

# Raging Menace - MenuMeters "is a set of CPU, memory, disk, and network monitoring tools for MacOS X". It displays configurable (via "System Preferences") information about your computer in the menu bar, with more information available in menus. 627K download. I have it configured for maximal information. You can make it take up much less space. SnapNDrag and EasyCrop made the screen shots below a snap. [tcftalk]

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