Mac Mode

View websites as screensaver

TDavid — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:26:10 +0000

a screen saver module for Mac OS X that allows you to view websites while you aren’t using your computer

I need to do something to extend the amount of time that our pictures show on our Mac desktop. I’m guessing this is a setting in the preferences.

WordPress Leopard admin theme

TDavid — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 06:02:32 +0000

Until today internally I’d been using the Wordpress Tiger admin menu theme, but that doesn’t seem to play nice with WP 2.6.2 as it should, so have updated to Teddy Hwang’s Leopard skin.

This is based on the Tiger theme and will make your Wordpress admin very Leopard-like.

Keeping an eye on the music room

TDavid — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:51:10 +0000

Have been dreadfully behind on updating what I’m doing with my Mac over the last year, but one new and somewhat major change is the Mac is no longer beside me every day.

Now it’s in our music room, keeping an eye on our music gear with the faithful, reliable iSight camera [freeware EyeSight software] and doubling as a picture rotator with the built-in scrensaver and iPhoto.

Another change, at least for this post, is that I’m blogging this from within Windows Vista using Windows Live Writer.

[shock! horror!]

Seriously, I’d like to investigate some similar Mac blogging tools like Ecto. A few of my Mac blogging friends seem happy with that program and I’m curious if it makes blogging on the Mac as easy as Windows Live Writer does on the PC.

Mac OS X shortcuts from Apple.com

TDavid — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:38:44 +0000

A list of Mac OS X keyboard shortcuts from Apple.com. How many do you know?

Opening the Leopard box …

TDavid — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:10:56 +0000

… maybe.

The Leopard installation has been on my To-Do list since Sunday when we bought Leopard. Went out the night of the Leopard launch but instead of buying that, I bought the PS3 game Eye of Judgment — and have already blogged about it over at Hmm (twice!).

It’s not that I’ve intentionally been procrastinating on the Leopard upgrade, but I wanted to wait until there was enough window of time to fully evaluate the feature set. Halloween is a trick or treat day and today one of my treats is being able to spend a little time with Leopard and see how it compares to Tiger.

Now, really, I’m going to open that Leopard box with the mesmerizing purple space … maybe.

eMac now ready for Leopard

TDavid — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 23:13:23 +0000

Didn’t get Leopard yesterday but will be buying it soon. First needed to upgrade the memory from the 256MB RAM it came with to at least 512MB which is the minimum for Leopard. I stuck a 512MB stick of RAM to bring the total to 768MB RAM. Was a smooth operation and in the process I blew out the dust with a compressor (outside) and cleaned the Mac.

The following tutorials from Apple came in handy:
- eMac: how to install the optional stand. Need the right size allen wrench and you’re good to go.
- eMac: how to install memory. Only one screw to get to the memory compartment underneath.

The eMac is heavy, isn’t it?

Eric the Widget

TDavid — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 12:58:30 +0000

Head’s up Howard Stern fans, it’s Eric the Widget! This is funny. For those who don’t follow the program Eric the Midget is considered among the most ungrateful wackpackers on the Howard Stern show. Now he’s really famous, he has his own Dashboard Widget.

Thanks Macenstein.

Listening to sound through line in jack with LineIn

TDavid — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 19:16:50 +0000

Since last September I’ve been a happy Sirius satellite subscriber. Today I went to plug my Starmate radio into the line-in jack on my eMac and while I saw signal, nothing was coming out of the speakers.

LineIn 2.0.3 (freeware) for the Mac solved this problem nicely.

Convert AAC files into ringtones for the iPhone

TDavid — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:13:41 +0000

From Apple Gazette comes iRing which sounds handy for those who are into ringtones. I’m not, heck I don’t even have a cell phone as of this writing, but I was thinking that when I do get back into the mobile phone game I might want to revisit something like this.

TechMixer describes the iRing:

An iphone ringtone creator application that automated converting AAC files into ringtones for the iPhone.

A blog for those who just switched to Mac for the first time

site admin — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:04:21 +0000

I like the design and idea behind My First Mac. Articles aimed at Windows users to help explain how to do similar tasks on the Mac.