2 Tools for Using German in OS X

• German Dictionary & Thesaurus plugins
• Keyboard layout editor

Have iCal open events in their own windows, instead of pop-ups

At some recent point (Leopard? Snow Leopard?) iCal started opening events "inline" in little pop-up type menus. This would have been fine but editing required an extra click and became annoying. Some recent update to Snow Leopard added the ability to bring back the old behavior in iCal's options.

Before:

Option:

After:

Disable individual application dock icons...

...with this bad boy. Super easy. Great for Hardware Growler.

Most Recent MobileMe App Overhaul: Calendar

Here. There is no use telling you about it when you can read about it yourself. But you might not have known about it had it not been for my blog!

BusyCal users watch out, though. Don't go get the MobileMe calendar beta just yet. (If you need to downgrade from the beta, go here.)