Expose is a fantastic new feature in Mac OSX that allows you to clear a cluttered desktop and shows you all of your apps nicely organized for easy task switching. Now Windows users can enjoy similar functionality using iEX.

UPDATE: You can also get iEX from http://www.oxygen-inc.com/premium/InsaniSoft/iEx.htm. The file that you download includes iEX and a nice little GUI application for configuring iEX. (Thanks to James Moberg for the link)

Alternately, you can go to the Aqua-Soft Forums and download this small utility via a forum thread. Here are the instructions…

1. Goto Aqua Soft Forums and sign up for a free member account.

1. Visit the forum named Siwu’s Apps
2. From there you can download the app in the forum thread named *[release] Iex V0.2* then follow the installation instructions.

Last week I posted a link to a WGET Tutorial. WGET is a command-line tool that can be used to download snapshots of your websites. For those of you who prefer GUI based tools, check out Teleport Pro – The Offline Browsing Webspider.

Some of the included features are:

• Javascript parsing capability for better, more thorough exploration of complex sites
• Ten simultaneous retrieval threads get data at the fastest speeds possible
• Can retrieve files from FTP servers
• Full offline browsing and site mirroring capabilities
• Project Scheduler lets you schedule projects to run at any time, on any connection. You can even schedule projects to run in sequence, each new project beginning when the previous one finishes!
• Automatic connect/disconnect system lets Teleport handle dial-up Internet connections for you, saving phone charges and connection time
• Retrieval filters let you download only files matching desired type and size constraints
• Accesses password-protected sites

SafeSQL is a SQL query processer to automate the tedious tasks of syntax testing, injection attack-proofing, dropping parts of queries and other misc features.

Sitepoint has a detailed review of what SQL injection attacks are.

Regular Expressions Tutorial is a comprehensive tutorial that covers much of the regular expression language.

Find out How to never lose Pepsi’s iTunes giveaway. Maybe it is just an urban myth or a good photoshop trick, but as I come from Canada, I can’t actually try this out!

Perl in 20 pages, by Russell Quong, that attempts to help an experienced programmer unfamiliar with Perl, get up to speed as quickly as possible on the most commonly used features of the language.

Perl in 20 pages

teleport is a simple utility to let you use one single mouse and keyboard to control several of your Macs.

Simply reach the edge of your screen, and your mouse teleports to your other Mac! The pasteboard can even be synchronized between the computers.

SideTrack is a replacement driver for the trackpad found on Apple PowerBooks and iBooks. It brings many of the advanced trackpad features found on Windows laptops to MacOS X.

SideTrack supports these features:

• Vertical scrolling at left or right edge of pad.
• Horizontal scrolling at top or bottom edge of pad.
• Map hardware button to left or right click.
• Map trackpad taps to no action, left click, left click drag (with or without drag lock), or right click.

Jon Hicks of hicksdesign.com talks about his role in the branding of Firefox. He has an interesting comment about Macromedia Fireworks:

”[The icon was] rendered using Fireworks MX. I’ve been using Fireworks over Illustrator or Photoshop for icon design as I love the way I can work in vectors and see the result in pixels, rather than smooth vectors. The updated gradient tools in MX make this possible too.”

Here are the Minutes from the Mozilla Staff Meeting after the release of Firefox. Some interesting comments…

There were aproximately 73K downloads on the first day, and about 30K failures due to capacity issues. Most interesting though is that just under half of people that clicked on the Windows download link came from IE 6.0 user agents! Maybe the browser war is heating up!