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Regardless of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003, Spam seems to be on the rise again. Most of it is luckily found in filters of various sorts, but lets at a my main eMail account to see how many fabulous offers I got yesterday...

Sometimes the simple things can be complicated if you are used to complicated scenarios. After successfully using Cocoa Bindings for a lot of things, I wanted something really simple:

Let the user set a default settings with an NSPopUpButton. The setting actually is an integer, but I would like to present some text to the user.

There is an excellent podcast out there, Tiki Bar TV. Great fun, and great drinks such as the London Fog Cutter

I found this piece, and it is funny as hell, enjoy:

The iTunes 5 Announcement From the Perspective of an Anthropomorphized Brushed Metal User Interface Theme

For quite a while I have tried to find out how to create transparent iChat avatars like the funky Apple sample icons. But saving images in gif, tiff, png, with or without alpha channel did not help.

My friend Julius (macrocka.com) now found the secrect:

The image must not be larger than 48 x 48 pixels. Other than that it should be a gif, with transparency set. No alpha channel needed.