I’ve found a way to make my favorite iTunes controller, hotTunes, disappear from the Dock while running. While I’m sure it’s unsupported, it seems to work quite well for me. Using Dockless, you can make any Mac OS X application invisible in the Dock, and it works on hotTunes just as well as any other app.

I’ve seen several sites display a “bookmark this post” link, and I decided to do my own small implementation of it. Making use of del.icio.us as a bookmark manager is great, and providing compatible shortcuts makes it easy for readers to save interesting items for later. WordPress takes almost all of the hard work out of this task, as the information you need is already being retrieved to display the post information. If you look at the contents of your WordPress theme’s index.php, you will find the paragraph class postmetadata. By changing what’s between the beginning and end tag for that block of information, you can control what is displayed under each post. Following Joshua’s post on the link format, it’s trivial to create a working bookmark link. Adding < ?php the_permalink() ?> prints out the permalink to the post (as seen at the top of the code for printing the post title), so to create a del.icio.us compatible bookmark link, add http://del.icio.us/post?url= before it. The del.icio.us link format also takes a title value, to which I send the post title, making even quicker to save the bookmark. The whole postmetadata content looks like this:

Posted in < ?php the_category(’, ‘) ?> <strong>|</strong> < ?php edit_post_link(’Edit’,”,’<strong>|’); ?> <a href=”http://del.icio.us/post?url=<?php the_permalink() ?>&title=<?php the_title(); ?>” rel=”bookmark” title=”Bookmark this post on del.icio.us”>Bookmark This Post</a> <strong>|</strong> < ?php comments_popup_link(’No Comments »’, ‘1 Comment »’, ‘% Comments »’); ?>

I also added a small del.icio.us image to make the link stand out. Feel free to use my image, as well as the WordPress modification, wherever you like. Some similar modifications to the single.php file allow for a bookmark link on each post’s individual page.

Here’s a unique use for ChapterTool: combine audio tracks from a “gapless” audio CD into one file, but maintain chapters as different songs. Combining songs in this way lets you play the album straight through without gaps, but still allows the choice of song by skipping though chapters. The iPod image near the bottom makes it quite clear as to how it works. Check out the tutorial on wanderingFocus.

While watching the recent items in my iTunes podcast subscriptions, I saw Phil Torrone (of MAKE Magazine) mention some hacks on G4/TechTV’s “Attack of the Show.” While describing the philosophy behind the magazine, one of the items he featured was my iMac LC III hack, where I fit the parts of a gumdrop shaped iMac into an LC III case and made it work. Click here to watch the G4 segment. That totally made my day.