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# iphonecountdown.com - iPhone Countdown to June - one page web site containing an image of the iPhone with a screen containing a countdown timer, and a link to a 966K PDF of a foldable image, so you can hold it lustfully in your hand. Hehe. The image below looks small on my screen, but the PDF printed just slightly smaller than the correct size. It fooled my son, for a moment. [irc]

# Jordan Robertson of AP via Yahoo! News - Cisco sues Apple over use of iPhone name - bummer. Apple realy should have signed the licensing deal before Jobs' keynote. Now it's gonna cost them. Or we'll have the Apple Phone. Or maybe Cisco just wants Apple to hurry up and sign the agreement. [irc]

# Philalethes at The Claire Files Forums - Re: Mac users, HELP! - a list of useful Macintosh utilities. I've linked some of them below. [tcftalk]

# Titanium Software - OnyX "is a multifunction utility... It allows you to run misc tasks of system maintenance, to configure certain hidden parameters of the Finder, Dock, Safari, Dashboard, Exposé, Disk Utility... to delete cache, to remove a certain number of files and folders that may become cumbersome, to see the detailed info of your configuration, to preview the different logs and CrashReporter reports, to check the Preferences files and more." Similar to Cocktail, but free. Also worth checking out are Titanium Software's Maintenance and Deeper, each of which provides a subset of the OnyX functionality. None of the three has a drag-and-drop install. They all come with installers. As far as I can tell, though, they install an application bundle in "/Applications" and a copy of the installer in "/Library/Receipts".

# Alsoft - DiskWarrior "is the safest, most technologically advanced, most powerful utility to eliminate directory damage available for any computer." $100. I haven't tried it, but Mac OS X Hints scored it 10 of 10 in this October, 2004 pick of the week:

This Pick is long overdue; I've owned and used various versions of DiskWarrior for a number of years. It's one of those programs that I consider essential, yet it's (hopefully!) seldom used. DiskWarrior is a drive recovery and (to some extent) preventative maintenance tool. You only need it when you have a disk in trouble, but at those times, it can be a lifesaver. DiskWarrior uses a special method to examine a 'crashed' drive, create a new master directory of the disk's contents, and then lets you examine the new directory before writing it to the drive. If all goes well, you wind up with your disk functional again, and all of your data intact.

# FreeSMUG and opensourcemac are repositories of links and descriptions of free Macintosh software.

# Michiaki Yamashita - iTextExpress is a small word processor. It can write RTF, HTML, Word, and Word XML formats. Philalethes compared it to WriteNow, a very nice Mac OS 6 (and earlier) word processor that was well-loved by many, myself included. I haven't played with iTextExpress enough to know whether the comparison fits from my perspective.

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