Safari 4

If you are a Mac user run Software Update and get Safari 4 now.

This release is significantly faster in loading pages and url completion.

The new "Top Sites" feature is really cool. Apple cribbed it from Opera, but they've improved on it.

OSX and JAVA_HOME

Trying to use seam-gen on my new MacBook Pro I got the following error :

The JAVA_HOME environment variable is not set
Please point it to a valid JDK installation

So I ran :

JAVA_HOME=/Library/Java/Home

This article from Apple's site suggested that the home should always point to that symlink. Unfortunately I got the same error.

Running :

java -version

showed only a JRE :

java version "1.5.0_16"
Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.5.0_16-b06-284)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.5.0_16-133, mixed mode, sharing)

Running :

$JAVA_HOME/bin/java -version

showed the same thing. So where is this JDK that Apple speaks of?  Its there.  The only thing that I was missing was :

export JAVA_HOME

Oops.

Dashboard wouldn't start

I got a new MacBook Pro at work.  I'm completely happy about that!

Dashboard quit working.  It might not have ever worked, but I think it did.  After installing a new widget it wouldn't start.

I typed :   defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean NO

Followed by : killall Dock

Dashboard worked fine after that.

I found the answer here.