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Sat down to do some work in PHP on my two week old Tiger install and was suprised to see that Apple still leaves PHP disabled by default in Tiger.

PHPMac to the rescue with a quick and easy terminal sesson to enable PHP.

[ Updated 5/12/05 ]

Thanks Dori for letting us know that the list has been updated and can be found here. While you are there, if you are interested in learning more about developing your own widgets, Dori has recently published the Dashboard Widgets for Mac OS X Tiger : Visual QuickStart Guide which is currently listed at Amazon for $14.95 with free shipping eligibility.

I've been enjoying Dori's blog (Backup Brain) for quite a while. She's an Mom, author (duh!), programmer and a speaker who isn't afraid to call it as she sees it. She's definitely got a permanent spot in my NetNewsWire.

• Dashboard Exchange
• Dashboard Exposed
• Dashboard Lineup
• DashboardShare
• DashboardWidgets
• MacWidgets.Net
• My Widgets
• Widget Developer
• Widget Tracker
• Widgets 4 Education

...and as many suspected, it didn't take long for someone to write a malicious widget that can actually cause harm to your system. PC users are foaming at the mouth - "See!! See!! The Mac is just as bad as Windows!" - not quite sparky! I give it until the end of the week before Apple closes this hole.

To help you manage your rapidly growing widget library, Downtown Software House has just released Widget Manager.

CLIX includes a default database containing more than 450 Terminal commands that perform useful actions in OS X[~]many of them usually inaccessible[~]categorized by the aspect of the interface they affect (Dock, Finder, Security, and System, for example, Double-click on any command, and CLIX presents a dialog box that shows a title, a category, and a description, as well as the command itself. To execute the command, click on the Run button (you can use the Copy button to copy this output to the Clipboard for pasting into another application). You can also edit or customize commands in the Command Line field. .