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1. Most Unexpected part - Star Spotting

I’m walking down 4th street with my girlfriend Kelly on the way to Macworld in the morning and who passes us walking down the street drinking his coffee, no body guards or anything. Dave Chappelle!!. I had my mouth hanging open while knudging my girlfriends arm in a spaztic fashion. She quickly caught on and started in with her own mouth hanging stare which is probably how he thinks everyone looks these days. Anyway, I wanted to yell “Rick James! B**th!” but held back and let the man be. That alone made our Macworld.

2. Funniest Part

We laughed for an hour and a half straight during the Kevin Smith presentation. He talked about where he thought Steve Jobs could go from here to improve the iPhone, which I can’t really speak about in this Family oriented blog. He also talked off subject about his movies including his upcoming appearance in Die Hard 4. Which is really cool despite the title “Live free or die hard”. Who are the ad wizards who came up with that one?

3. Biggest Disappointment

It could have been Leopard not being released but it wasn’t. It was the Adobe Booth.

1. No Apollo demos.

2. I walk up to there booth where there is a “Ask an expert sign”. As my girlfriend is watching, I ask the expert if they have any apollo applications we could look at. He just looks at me in an uninterested fashion and says “no”. Then i continue with “I’m just really excited to try it out”. Which he then just nods expressionless at me almost as though he has no idea what I’m talking about. I then turn to my girlfriend who is rolling her eyes and mockingly saying in her best naisely geek voice (which is hilarious) “i’m just so exxxxcited”.

So no apollo and I had to endure the taunting from my woman. Lucky for us in SF, Ted patrick has made up for this with a meet the Flex team event which I’ll be at next week at the Adobe offices.

4. Most Awesome

Kevin Smith, Dave Chappelle, all your favorite Software people, in one place and the cost?

We got in for free using the digg code for exhibitor passes. Thanks Digg!

So if you’re like me and love your Intel Mac but still use Windows in Parallels for Flash Alpha 9, Microsoft .Net Studio, etc.. then your probably already running the new Parallels build with “Coherence”. Well the one downside (don’t get me wrong it puts steam in my stride on a daily basis) is that you still have to open apps from the Windows Taskbar. Well, here is a simple solution for Launching windows apps from your OSX Doc.

Steps (Yes its not that simple)

1. OSX -> Go to “System Preferences” and open “Universal Access”. Click on the Keyboard tab and check “Enable access for assitive devices.

2. Open Parallels in “Coherence” mode. Go to the “Properties” for the application you want run in Windows. (right click in properties on the shortcut in the menu). Setup a “Shortcut Key” for the application you want to run. So for Flash 9 you may setup Control-Shift-f

3. Open your AppleScript Editor (Applications/Applescript) and paste in the following code:

tell application “Parallels Desktop”
activate
tell application “System Events”
– Shortcut in windows setup for Control-Shift-f
– Change for each application and resave
keystroke “f” using {control down, shift down}
end tell
end tell
4. Save the script as an “Application Bundle” in a folder.

5. Create all the scripts for apps you need in the same folder. Copy the folder to your OSX Doc.

6. Thats it. Yeah its a hack, but it’ll work until they build it into

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