If you're on T-Mobile Web 'n' Walk on a Mac, you probably use the imaginatively-named "stick manager" to connect to the Internet. While it is a remarkable piece of software engineering (with helpful alerts like "Success to Connect!", "Fail to Connect!", and, my favorite, "Success to Disconnect"), it is actually an entirely unnecessary bit of bloatware.

To connect without it, simply open System Preferences, select the HUAWEI Mobile device, and enter the phone number *99# in the Telephone Number section, click Apply, and then Connect.

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The Yahoo! Flex Skin is a lovely minimalist skin by the good folks on Yahoo!'s Flash team. However, it has an issue that you need to work around if you want to load it in dynamically at runtime. It's a simple thing, but I thought I'd document it here in hopes that it will help save someone else a few minutes of confusion.

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Update: Beta 2 Released! See the Gaebar Beta 2 announcement.

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For my latest project, I decided to bite bullet and go with git and GitHub.

It's a little disconcerting as I'm really comfortable with SVN but a good move nonetheless since that sort of comfort is rarely a good thing (there are many things I wish SVN did differently but I use it because I know it and it's not CVS!)

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Summary: ClippyML is a simple web browser that uses the system clipboard instead of URLs. Simply paste some text into it to see it displayed as HTML.

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