How many icons will you need on your dock for the Microsoft Office Suite? 5.
For iLife? 6 icons.
For iWork? 3 icons!
The aim of these Dock applications launchers is to reduce clutters in your dock.
Each of them is less than 100 kb and they use 0% of your CPU active or idle.
Intuitive to use: right click on them and you’ll see the entire series Applications:

Download:

• Office Dock
• iWork Dock
• iLife Dock

Why doesn’t the Last.fm client work for most (or all) Leopard users?
The explanation must be too technical or inexistent. I’ve tried all that a normal user can do to make it work: deleting preferences of the application, delete and re-install it, changed my last.fm password.. but in vain.
Before Leopard got released I wasn’t using the Last.fm client anyways, I had a crush for CoverSutra when it became compatible with Last.fm.
But even CoverSutra isn’t working for me on Leopard (I’m not the only one having this problem it seems), add to that the fact the application became too heavy with its new spotlight like feature.

Today a friend gave me the solution; downgrade to CoverSutra version 1.1.4 and it works!!!

I took the little heart (in the menu bar) that comes with CoverSutra version 2 and here I am scrobbling again the songs I’m listening!

My Last.fm account: this way.

You’d answer: “download and install the update”? Too easy!!!
Here are the steps I followed to make it.

• Step One: delete Office 2008!
  
  I used AppZapper to download the suite and its preferences, then, I cleaned up the Application Support folder (in the Library folders) from the Microsoft folders.
  I also deleted the Microsoft User Data folder in the Documents folder.

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Microsoft… I was happy to see the updates to the Office Suite, expecting to see some improvements, but the result is a bit different: Microsoft shows me its nice Setup Assistant everytime I try to open a document (thank God I have Pages and Numbers).
According to MaCNN here are some possible fixes:

1. Word Settings: If you’re experiencing a crash on launching Word 2008, try throwing out its settings file. Look in your home directory - that’s /Users/ and your account’s short name - in Library > Preferences > Microsoft. Toss Word Settings (10) and relaunch Word 2008.
2. Remove the Microsoft AU Daemon from Startup Items: Open System Preferences, then navigate to “Accounts” and click “Startup Items,” then remove Microsoft AU Daemon.
3. Corrupt normal template: The normal template file — located at ~/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Office/User Templates/Normal.dotm appears to be corrupt in many cases of crashing. The fix for the problem is as follows: create a new user account, launch Word 2008 under the new account (it should launch properly if this is the cause), then copy the aforementioned file from the clean (working) account to the same location in the old (crashing) account, replacing the corrupt file.
4. Corrupt Microsoft.plist, etc. files Go to ~/Library/Preferences and delete everything that starts with com.microsoft…. Re-attempt application launch and usage.
5. Corrupt fonts: Remove any recently added fonts temporarily, or use a tool like Font Doctor to search for corrupt fonts.

I’m going to have a lot of fun!

Another problem has been reported by some other users: the installation issues!
The fix after the jump…
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These days I’m so nostalgic about PPC computers.
I’m still amazed to see how flawless my PowerBook G4 1GHz + 256 RAM is on Tiger.
One of the first tricks I wrote on MacAmour is a how to take a snapshot from a DVD (movie).
Here’s another snapshot I took for that review but I didn’t published:

When I wrote that trick, I never thought MacAmour would have such a success and longevity.
I started it when I was 25 years old, on june 27th I’ll turn 28 already!

• First gap: PDF’s. While you’re able to read/download PDF files on the flow from Safari, Firefox 3 doesn’t have this ability. You can make Firefox open these kind of files by adding a free plugin that “uses PDFKit to display PDFs in the browser.”
  You can get the plugin here.
• Second gap: iWeb made sites rendering is broken in Firefox 3. Until Apple releases a fix for iWeb, here’s a fix to download. Go here to download Fix iWeb and Firefox 3 1.1.

Tiger users were able to use and download the widget from MacAmour.
But it seems it stopped working.
So here’s the how to fix it, then you’ll never get the “invalid zip code” error message again.
Recently the Leopard Movies widget, which Steve demoed along with Leopard, stopped working in Tiger. Leopard’s built-in Movies widget continues to function, while in Tiger, it gives an error of “invalid zip code.” You can make this widget function once again in 10.4.

Navigate to /Library/Widgets and find the Movies widget. Control-click on the widget and choose Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Then open parser.js in your favorite text editor, and replace all occurrences of A99D3D1A-774C-4914-9E3B-18645117428A with DE7E251E-7758-40A4-98E0-87557E9F31F0 and save. Close any open movie widget in Dashboard, then re-open it. Now it works.

Source: Mac OS X Hints