The Leopard upgrade to OS X changed a few things with the local web server configuration. Namely, it comes standard with Apache2 now which means that VirtualHosts are done differently as well now. After attempting to add my own custom VirtualHosts to what I thought was the right conf file, I gave up and found a better solution.

Patrick Gibson provides a great little shell script that I simply run with the name of the VirtualHost that I want to create and it automatically makes all the appropriate changes to the VirtualHosts conf file as well as the "hosts" file. More information here:

http://patrickgibson.com/utilities/virtualhost/

Apparently I am creating a somewhat series of posts about Leopard. I suppose I could just put them all together and create one giant super post, but that is not as fun as posting as I find them, plus this is great for categorizing.

Have you ever wanted to watch a price of a product on Amazon to see if it goes down and snatch it up when it does? Well, there are some subscription services that do just that for you and send you an email update. Or, without giving out your email address to yet another web service, why not just web clip the product name and price and drop it in Dashboard?

Take a look at this screenshot: http://myskitch.com/kylehayes/amazon_pricewatch-20071026-231631/

Btw, I didn't used to be a real avid user of Dashboard--very light user actually, but with Web Clip, I know that I will be using it a lot more often!

After just getting Leopard installed, I immediately began diving into all the new 300+ features. While playing with the new Web Clip feature with Safari + Dashboard, I had an idea. Why couldn't I create a web clip of Gmail and run Gmail from my Dashboard? Practical? Not quite, but let's see it in action.

Sure enough, it works great! Full usable and everything. Here is a screenshot: http://myskitch.com/kylehayes/picture_2-20071026-231105/