Stories and links of interest for today:

MACOSXHINTS: Open multiple items in a Stack
After clicking on a stack so that it fans or grids out, hold the Option key down, and then click on as many items as you desire within the stack. As you click each, it will open and the stack will remain onscreen. Unfortunately (at …

TinkerTool, the wonderful system utility by Marcel Bresink, is now Leopard compatible (and is also updated for previous systems).

Updated/changed features include:

* Added compatibility with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.
* Removed support for Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar and other operating systems releases prior to version …

http://www.randsinrepose.com/archives/2007/11/11/the_nerd_handbook.html

A stunningly accurate depiction of life as a nerd.

Take a read and see how many points you find that relate to you…

A nerd needs a project because a nerd builds stuff. All the time. Those lulls in the conversation over dinner? That’s the nerd working on his project in his head.
It’s unlikely that this project is a nerd’s day …

We’d like to invite you to take a look at MacLoot.com, a work in progress that allows the readers to submit sites or specific deals that are relevant to Mac users — for instance, a discount on software or hardware or perhaps a book, mouse or even web-hosting for Mac users.

Please feel free to submit your deals, or even …

As seen on Macenstein:

http://digg.com/apple/Finder_Sidebar_network_aliases_not_so_much

Rob, over at MacOSXHints.com, ran into a problem similar to one I recently had.

Basically, if you create an alias in your Finder sidebar to a network share — for instance ‘iTunes Library’ on machine1, then rename the sidebar alias on machine2, Finder will rename the actual folder, not just the alias! This can lead to problems with other …

http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite.net_1.1.2_3B48b_Restore.ipsw

Good luck and let the hacking begin!