Scores of people have been complaining (Digg users mainly, no surprise there) about the 3D dock in Mac OSX 10.5 Leopard. Well, you whiners are lucky. According to MonkeyBites, there’s an option to use a “classic dock.” It’s not an exact replica of the Tiger dock, but close enough. It has a cool transparent-black background instead of the blue from Tiger.

Here’s a screenshot.

In 2009, the FCC will require that all TV stations cease transmitting in the VHF band they previously occupied. They will move to digital broadcasting, which takes-up much less bandwidth, vacating the “TV Spectrum” for other uses.

What’s the catch? Your TV will become a rather expensive paperweight, as traditional televisions cannot process the digital signals. If you have an HDTV, or a modern digital-ready TV, than you’ll be fine. If not, then you’re options are to either buy a new TV or purchase a converter box that processes the digital signals and feeds them to your antiquated television.

This isn’t news, the FCC has been planning it for a few years now. Why are they vacating the TV Spectrum? It can be used for other purposes, such as cell phones and wireless broadband, as the UHF spectrum will soon be. Unfortunately, there’s a depressingly high chance that the spectrum will simply be sold to a large corporation, where it will benefit no one except whichever telecom company has deep enough pockets to buy it.

Personally, I don’t mind the spectrum being vacated (as long as a corporation doesn’t gain exclusive control over it), though I am opposed to digital TV. I think it’s unnecessary, and that TV could be better broadcast over the internet.

It’s insane for the FCC to expect us to go out and buy new TV sets on such short notice, and don’t forget that their forcing the high-definition rubbish on us too. Sometime around the death of VHF TV, the stations will stop broadcasting in the standard definition as well. Does someone in the FCC have stock in the TV set industry? You have to wonder…

I’ve been migrating my Firefox bookmarks to del.icio.us as of late, but I’ve run into something I don’t like.

Whenever I clear my cache (Ctrl-Shift-Del), which I do often when I work with CSS and JavaScript, I’m logged out of Del.icio.us (which is no big deal, and expected since I’m flushing the cookies). As soon as I clear out Firefox’s cache and cookies, logging me out of Del.icio.us, I get this stupid prompt from the Firefox extension. It looks like this:

How do I get rid of this stupid prompt? I want to leave the few copies of my del.icio.us bookmarks in Firefox, and I don’t want to be bugged about it whenever I log out of del.icio.us.

Apple’s desktop lineup currently includes

• The wimpy $500 Mac Mini
• The “all-in-one” iMac
• The $2500 Mac Pro

So you have you’re choice of a cheap, and tiny, computer that won’t meet the needs of most power users (let’s see you edit video on a Mini); an “all-in-one” computer with enough for most power users, but little choice in the monitor area since everything is built-in to the LCD; and the expensive “ultimate computer” with 8 processing cores.

There needs to be a midrange model that allows for the use of your own monitor, like the ill-fated G4 Cube. It’s stats should be something like these:

• 2.4GHZ+ Core 2 Duo
• 2GB of RAM
• 250GB-500GB of Hard Drive space
• 8x Dual-Layer SuperDrive
• ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT with 128MB memory

It’s pricing should be comparable to the iMacs, seeing as the specs would be similar (though the cost of the LCD is cut-out).