And so what makes Microsoft’s new “I’m a PC” commercials so jaw-droppingly bad is that they’re not countering Apple’s message, but instead they’re reinforcing it. That the spots themselves jump between dozens of different people who “are” PCs, that the spots make a point of emphasizing that there are a billion Windows-running PCs worldwide, this only emphasizes that “PC” is not a brand name but a generic.

- John Gruber

Some major changes in this release included:

• It is now possible to do a multi-file find and replace across local files. You can choose to search all open files, all files in a particular folder, or all files in your current Site.
• Coda 1.5 provides built in support (checkout, commit, revert, update, and rollback) for Subversion operations.
• This release includes improved organization of Clips. Clips can also now be imported and exported. Using the new codaclips: URL handler allows you to create a web page link that adds a clip to Coda. Sam Brown has already integrated this feature into Coda Clips
• Users can also create custom reference books in Coda 1.5.

Read more about the updates on Steven Frank’s site or in the official release notes.

I am most excited about:

• The finder updates including Quick Look
• Stacks
• iCal Updates
• Mail Updates – Maybe I will use it as more than an archiver for Gmail
• Time Machine

For all those Mac users out there, what features are you most excited about and will you upgrade right away or wait for the 10.5.1 updates? I am still undecided.

Check out Apple’s list of the more than 300 new features.

Slows my old Gateway laptop down a little too much; very cool though.

So, I spent half a day setting up the new monitor, cleaning up, moving things around and cleaning up the cable management.

You can check out all of the photos on flickr.

With the multiple monitors, Mac OS X, Ubuntu, Windows XP and being able to control it all via Synergy; I think I could have been considered for Lifehacker’s Coolest Workspace Contest.

My method is similar to Snorbalp’s. I wrote an AppleScript, saved it as an application and added it to my login items. Once you login and run the script, you can add the password to keychain.

mount volume “cifs://WORKGROUP;username@MACHINENAME/SHARENAME”