Don't bother. Just open the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD Player.app... Damn :)

mdworker (visible in Activity Monitor) is the Spotlight indexing process (active even though the process is not visible in the spotlight menu).

We had a situation where movie files from a mobile phone (file ending .3gp) caused problems, as the indexer didn't seem to get past them. Using up 99% and more percent CPU which caused the fan to go crazy. Removing the files resolved this CPU madness.

You may find which files could be the problem if in Activity Monitor you click on the mdworker process and the click "inspect" in the menu, then choose "Open Files and Ports".

Even in 10.5.6 Mail still won't place the signature above the quoted text in replies, even if said option is ticked in Mail preferences. The only solution I found so far works, but is sure isn't great:
greate a signature with nothing but hitting return once and check the "place above quoted.." and ake this the default signature.

I only work here since a month and its already paying off ;-)
Liip are Master of Swiss Web 2009, winning 1 x bronze, 2 x silver and 1 x gold, culminating in the Master title :-)

Congratulations to everyone working at Liip and especially Marc for his wicked iPhone App Transport (formerly known as GottaGo)!

Good to know (from Parallels knowledge base):

How to setup printing from Windows guest OS using Parallels Desktop 3.0 Parallel Port (Default Printer)

1. Stop your Windows VM if it's running.

2. Open VM Configuration Editor (Parallels Desktop menu - Edit - Virtual Machine)

3. Add Parallel Port Printer to the VM Configuration: click "Add" - select "Parallel Port", hit "Next" - select "Use a printer" - select the printer you have available in the Mac OS.

4. Make sure that you are able to print using that printer from the Mac OS side.

5. Start Windows and try printing some document using "HP Color LaserJet 8500 PS" (it's generic driver that's being used for printing from the Virtual Machine to any Mac OS compatible printer).

Google offers an iPhone Google Calendar App to synchronize Google calendars and introduces CalDAV sync for iCal and Sunbird.

See here: http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99355

and here: http://www.google.com/mobile/apple/sync.html

Also from Andy Halford comes a smart app and plugin for validating website code: Total Validator. Nice one.

Finally took a moment to find a solution to sort my bookmarks in Firefox. I found a quick and good solution in
SortPlaces 1.4.0 by Andy Halford. What a relief! All sorted with one click. Thanks Andy!

To acces The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) Administration on Mac OS X, type this address in your Web Browser:
http://127.0.0.1:631/

About CUPS

CUPS provides a portable printing layer for UNIX®-based operating systems. It is developed and maintained by Apple Inc. to promote a standard printing solution. CUPS is the standard printing system used on MacOS® X and most Linux® distributions.

CUPS uses the Internet Printing Protocol ("IPP") as the basis for managing print jobs and queues and adds network printer browsing and PostScript Printer Description ("PPD") based printing options to support real-world printing.

The Süddeutsche Newspaper last week ran an interesting article on defective cables that cut off Asia from the Internet. It was likely a ships anchor which went down where it wasn't expected and tore through three essential cables. 95% of the worlds data is pumped through sea cables. One such fiber optic cable is less than 2 cm thick. Its core holds a bundle of fiber glass cables, each thinner than a human hair. A pair of those apparently carries one terabyte of data per second. The cables are wrapped in layers of copper, plastics and steel mesh. Special ships are used to lay those cables on the bottom of the sea. In many places around the globe, there's repair ships on hold to go out and fix damaged cables. The current damage was in the Mediterranean sea and the cable ship Raymond Croze belonging to France Télécom went to fix the cables with the remote controlled submarine robot "Hector". Read more on BBC NEWS

The Guardian earlier posted a good graphic impression of the world's submarine Internet cables: