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It happened. The left fan on my Macbook Pro stated making a horrible noise, so terrible i couldn’t stand it one second. I tried opening my mac and cleaning the fan with compressed air but the noise was still there. 

The only thing to do was change it. Off I went to ifixit.com and I bought a new fan with a couple of other things also, a new battery and a new superdrive since mine failed to calibrate the laser power. The invoice was pretty expensive (107$ for shipping ARG)! Warning: This procedure voids the warranty.

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I was looking for a widget to put on my dashboard so to have a quick view of the stats of my website without having to go to Google Analytics pages.

Here it is, http://dashalytics.rovingrob.com/download/ Dashalytics!

It’s pretty cool!It diplays graphs, detailed information on different stats, divided in three categories (Content , Visitors and Traffic Sources) and has different views (day / week / month / 3month … and son on).

Images after the jump.

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A nice little addon for your System Preference Pane that let’s you unlock some interesting features, like the ability to have dashboard widgets on your desktop without having the dashboard out! All without having to time a single line in the terminal, sweet.Right click on the Icon and select remove to get rid of it.

A complete list of the hidden features is available at the developer’s site http://secrets.textdriven.com/ along with the download link (just click on PrefPane)

via lifehacker.com