<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sidenote is a neat little program that puts a slide-out notepad on the side of your screen. Throw the mouse into the edge of the screen, and there's the notepad. You really have to try it to get the idea. <A href="http://www.chatelp.org/?s=Sidenote">http://www.chatelp.org/?s=Sidenote</A><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I use Fire for IM/chat. <A href="http://fire.sf.net">http://fire.sf.net</A>/</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Most of the other stuff I use (that didn't come with my iBook) is a bit esoteric. NeoOffice is probably the most well-known; I use it for opening Word docs before I transform them to groff or XML. I spent a lot more time than most people in Terminal, smacking text around with various scripts.</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">--</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Larry Kollar<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>k<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>o<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>r<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>@<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>a<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>t<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>l<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>n<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>e<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>t</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">"The hardest part of all this is the part that requires thinking."</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">-- Paul Tyson, on xml-doc<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>