I received an email from an EasyCrop user this morning saying that dragging to the Desktop no longer works. I ran some tests and found that I was able to drag to Finder windows but not to the Desktop. This seemed like a Finder bug to me, so I restarted the Finder (Cmd-Opt-ESC and select Finder, then click Relaunch) and, sure enough, dragging to the Desktop started working again.

On a related topic, I have also seen Leopard (Tiger too, but this seems to be happening more since I upgraded) get into a state where Dashboard and Exposé stopped working. Restarting the Dock process fixes this. To restart the Dock, enter the following command in the Terminal:

killall Dock

If you’re not comfortable with Terminal, you can also force quit Dock using Activity Monitor.

Amazon is taking pre-order for the freshly updated MacBook with the Santa Rosa chipset. We know Amazon has free shipping and all, but can you afford to wait till 2021?

I just released TapDex 3.3 this morning. It now runs great on Leopard (the previous version didn’t show phone numbers).

I don’t like the new Leopard Dock. The 3D look itself doesn’t bother me, but all that reflection makes it hard to see the app icons. And those glowing orbs for indicating running apps are just too low-contrast to see. Luckily, there is an undocumented option to turn off the 3D look. Just open Terminal and enter the following line to set the option:

defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean YES

Then restart the Dock using:

killall Dock