An assistant editor at the Birmingham News found use for a newspaper vending box and a Mac Mini:

Scott was able to create a digital newsstand that delivers a constant stream of current headlines to his living room, and look extremely cool while doing it.

An iCal alarm wakes the mini each morning and sets in motion an AppleScript which takes some screenshots of various online newspapers (including the Birmingham News, of course), crops them (using GraphicCoverter), then launches a PhotoPresenter slideshow of the pics complete with transitions.

Via Macenstein

Mac OS X 10.4.10 is here, and Jim Dalrymple of Digital Arts reports that it should correct several different problems, “including improving reliability when using the IR remote control after waking from sleep. Reliability when mounting external USB hard drives has been improved as well.” Furthermore, “[u]sers of the Tom Tom GO 910 should no longer have a problem with the device being recognized when connected via USB to an Intel-based Mac.”

But that’s not all – Reg Hardware’s Tony Smith notes that Mac OS X 10.4.10 is “the first palindromic – well, sort of – version number to be applied to its Unix-based operating system.” Yay, palindromes!

Stefanie Höfling passed along the news that Cocoa Bootcamp will take place August 6-10, 2007, at Big Nerd Ranch Europe:

Big Nerd Ranch Europe is pleased to announce the next opportunity of learning Mac OS X Programming in the most desired Cocoa training course available: Cocoa Bootcamp with instructor Aaron Hillegass. The intensive five-day training taught at the retreat environment of Kloster Eberbach near Frankfurt, Germany is scheduled for August 6-10, 2007.

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