Safari Tip: Download MySpace Music
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008 » Mac OS X, Tips
Have you ever gone to your favorite band’s MySpace page and found they’ve uploaded a new track or demo from their upcoming album and wished you had a way to download it so you could put it on your iPod until you can actually buy the new album? Well then, here’s a tip for all of you Mac OS X an MySpace users.
A Leopard Fix Is Coming
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 » Guides, Mac OS X
For anyone who has recently attempted to create an install of Leopard on your flash drive รก la this tutorial I posted back in November of 2006, you may have noticed that two of the package receipts required to get the system running, namely BaseSystem.pkg and Essentials.pkg, have disappeared from the /Library/Receipts folder in the latest version of Leopard. In my quick searching, I could not find either of those two package receipts anywhere on the system.
Due to it being the end of Spring Quarter here at UC Santa Cruz, I have not been able to devote time to search and hopefully find the answer. However, my last final is on Wednesday morning, and the first task on my list of summer projects is to get the instructions updated for Leopard. I hope to find a solution on Wednesday and get the new guide up by Thursday. I’ll be twittering the entire install process, so follow me if you want in on the fun.
Leopard Tip: Re-Map Your Contact List Shortcuts In iChat
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 » Mac OS X, Software, Tips
In the twelve short hours that I’ve been using the retail version of Leopard, I’ve discovered a small, easily overlooked, yet very handy feature in iChat. It is now possible to customize the shortcut order for your accounts/contact lists without having to use Chax or some other enhancer. Not only does this allow you to prioritize the order of your contact lists, it also lets you change the default list that appears when you click on the iChat icon in the dock.
Keynote Automator Actions
Saturday, July 7th, 2007 » Mac OS X, Software, Tips
Here are two Automator actions I created that will take selected images from the Finder and create a Keynote slideshow from them. In addition to the “Create Keynote Slideshow” action, the “Automagic Slideshow” action will automatically export the slideshow to a QuickTime Movie. Requires Keynote Actions from Automator.us (included) and GUI scripting (Universal Access) enabled.
A Digg Screensaver For OS X
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007 » Mac OS X, Software, The Web
As most Mac users will know, Tiger has a built-in screensaver for displaying RSS feeds. And it’s pretty damn nice, too. The first time my dad saw it at the Apple Store in Lyndhurst, he commented on how cool the animations were. Being the only Mac convert in my family, I began to think there was hope for him after all. RSS has undoubtedly changed the way I read most articles and news stories on the ‘net. With digg being one of my favourite news sites, I thought about how cool it would be to have a digg-style screensaver.