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Being a profoundly geeky, I’ve been using NetNewsWire to do my regular browsing around the internet. Recently, ads have started popping up in the newsfeeds, and today I took action against them. Borrowing heavily from an idea of using a custom stylesheet in Safari to block ads, I added this to Jon Hicks’ tiger-style stylesheet for NetNewsWire:

a:link[href*="/imageads."] img, a:link[href*="http://www.google.com/ads_by_google.html"] { display:none !important; }

Bye bye ads!

Apple today published coverage by CNBC regarding the recent release of Mac OS X Tiger. The piece featured a little above average coverage of the issues while also repeating some common myths about the Mac.

Apple's Bonjour ('also known as zero-configuration networking, enables automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on IP networks') is now available for Windows! A Bonjour icon shows up in Internet Explorer to enable Bonjour browsing, along with the Bonjour Printer Wizard. Developers can download the Bonjour SDK. The benefits would appear to be for Apple customers (more Bonjouring with more networks) and to gain Apple switchers by enticing Windows customers."