I like to go back and forth between the Finder, Terminal, and TextMate. Also, I miss the ability to select a group of items in a Finder window by some criterium. Today, I installed the Open Terminal Here, Open in TextMate, and Iselect apps into the Finder to let me do just those things. Check 'em out, they cool!

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In a previous post, I mentioned that Flash in Dashboard widgets wasn't working well for me in Leopard. Specifically, I tried making one of my bunny widget via the cool new "Open in Dashboard" feature in Safari and I couldn't type in the input text field and the data exchange didn't work for me. Well, it must be an intermittent thing because today, it's working like a champ! :)

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I'm sitting at the gate at LAX, waiting for my flight back to the UK and missing Visor, the Quake-like Terminal window that I loved using in Tiger and which stopped working in Leopard.

Google and ye shall find, as they say, so I did and it turned up a little gem: Instructions on how to get Visor working under Leopard.

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After Tiger, Leopard looks butt-ugly to me with its Vistaesque (think "grotesque as only Microsoft can manage") semi-transparent menu bar, square screen corners, over-the-top 3D dock, and ridiculous default wallpaper.

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I just upgraded to Leopard and my initial experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.

The installation was not painless. In fact, I had to restart several times as the screen that displays the locations that you can install Leopard into kept coming up empty. In the end, I tried saving the license agreement on to the hard disk and then proceeding to that screen and that prompted the installer to see my hard drive. It was the sort of workaround I'd device in Windows to get things to work sometimes. I definitely did not expect to have to resort to such tomfoolery in OS X (omg, I said tomfoolery, can I be an honorary Brit, oh please, please, please!) :)

The installation took forever. It took ages for the DVD to verify itself (???) and then ages again to install. I'm writing this at 2am and I started installing all this at around 10.30pm.

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