The Workaround

1. Go to your “Mail Settings” in Gmail.
2. Click the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab.
3. Click “Auto-Expunge off – Wait for the client to update the server.”
4. Click “Save Changes” at the bottom of the page.

Now you should be able to “Undo” your actions in Mail.

defaults write com.apple.mail DisableInlineAttachmentViewing -bool yes

Restart Mail.app, and voila!

2.) Use a spacer to split the Dock between Docked applications and non-Docked applications.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add
'{"tile-type"="spacer-tile";}' && killall Dock

3.) Add one or more stacks of recently used items.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add 
'{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }' 
&& killall Dock

4.) Enable new List view in Dock Stacks.

defaults write com.apple.dock use-new-list-stack -bool yes 
&& killall Dock

5.) Enables gradient effect on mouse over.

defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes 
&& killall Dock

Amazon advertises Kindle’s ability to playback audio files while reading e-books. I really wanted to read my new e-book while simultaneously listening to the audiobook. I followed Kindle’s instructions to copy the Audible .aax file to my Kindle via the USB cable. Success! I could hear the professionally narrated version Hawking’s best-seller.

Now, to read along. But wait…I can’t hear the e-book anymore! Kindle’s User Guide says that Alt-Space and Alt-F control the background audio playback while reading an e-book. To my surprise, these keystrokes have no effect.

Thirty minutes later, I gave up and called Amazon Kindle Support. At last, “Chris C.”, a Kindle Specialist, was able to understand my problem. He suggested that I move the .aax file from the Kindle “Audible folder” to the “music folder.” This, however, caused the Kindle to no longer recognize the audiobook. He then concluded that I would need to convert the .aax file to an .mp3 file. He casually noted, however, that neither Audible nor Kindle has a direct mechanism to do this. In other words, I was out of luck. I can’t listen to Amazon Audible files while reading on my Kindle 2.

Is that fair? Should consumers have the burden of making Amazon’s Kindle operable with Amazon’s Audible files? Your thoughts are always appreciated.

Here’s an example of a search box that only finds mp3 files.
Try searching for Daft Punk

Amazing, so how did I do this? Here’s the original JavaScript from Google to add a standard web search box to your website:

<!-- Search Google -->
<center>
<FORM method=GET action="http://www.google.com/search">
<input type=hidden name=ie value=UTF-8>
<input type=hidden name=oe value=UTF-8>
<TABLE bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><tr><td>
<A HREF="http://www.google.com/">
<IMG SRC="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" 
border="0" ALT="Google" align="absmiddle"></A>
<INPUT TYPE=text name=q size=25 maxlength=255 value="">
<INPUT type=submit name=btnG VALUE="Google Search">
</td></tr></TABLE>
</FORM>
</center>
<!-- Search Google -->

Here’s a little JavaScript you need to find only mp3 files. Notice, I am just using the “intitle” and “-” syntax to narrow the search results.

<!-- Search Script -->
function submitform() {
       var new_query="intitle:index.of \"mp3\" \"" +document.gs.query.value +"\"-htm -html -php -asp \"Last Modified\"";
       document.gs.query.value=new_query;
       }
<!-- End Search Script -->

In the above code, document.gs.query.value is just what the user originally typed.
Here’s the revised Google search code that implements the above JavaScript to make a specialty Google search happen:

<script type='text/javascript' src='search.js'></script>
<!-- Search Google -->
<center>
<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" name="gs" onsubmit="return submitform();" > <input type="hidden" value="UTF-8" name="ie" /> <input type="hidden" value="UTF-8" name="oe" />
<table bgcolor="#ffffff">
<tr>
<td><a href="http://www.google.com/"> <img border="0" alt="Google" src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_40wht.gif" /></a> <input type="text" maxlength="255" size="25" name="query" /> <input type="submit" value="mp3 Search" name="btnG" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form> </center> <!-- Search Google -->

If you wanted to make some money, you could modify Google’s Adsense Search Box to search for only mp3, mp4, mpeg, etc… However, that would violate the Google’s Adsense Terms of Service.

Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads (ads=referals too). This includes encouraging users to click on the ads … as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads.

Google’s Policy also states the following about labeling ads,

Publishers may not label the ads with text other than “sponsored links” or “advertisements.

For purposes of these policies, “referral buttons are considered to be ‘Google ads’”. Yet, before and after users sign up for accounts with Flixya, they are shown several advertisements that direct them to sign up for Google Adsense as a direct incentive to make money. It seems apparent that instructing users to “Sign up for Google’s Ads to Share In Flixya’s Revenue Sharing Program” and labeling referral ads with the phrase “Sign Up” are violations of Adsense TOS. Adsense users should be further concerned that using Flixya’s Revenue Sharing Program and viewing videos on Flixya will cause an increase in page impressions with Google Adsense, which is a per se violation of Google’s TOS. What’s the likely penalty? Goodbye Adsense account.

Before the AUV Final Round, Dr. Eric Schwartz, advisor of Team SubjuGator, updates UF students via e-mail from San Diego, “We are doing pretty well so far…We are the only team to dock with the docking station. It is apparent that ETS (Ecole de Technologie Superieure, from Canada) is our biggest threat…There are several other teams with very well built subs that could sneak up and beat us, but I believe the [SubjuGator] team is feeling good about our chances.” And Dr. Schwartz was right. Team members Carlo Francis, James Greco, Kevin Claycomb, Matthew Koenn, Sean Cohen, Sean Matthews, Michael Gregg, Jacob Collumns, Gene Shokes, Greg Cieslewski, and Adam Barnett walked away victorious.

The SubjuGator is designed to operate underwater at depths in excess of 15 feet and weighs about 40 lbs. The mission behavior of SubjuGator is controlled by a network of I2C modules. This system includes sensors, motor controllers, more than 10 microcontrollers, and vision systems. A single-board Pentium M based computer running Microsoft Windows XP Embedded provides processing power for the vision system and advanced signal processing.