Folks, Here\’s a new version of the Devices that are On! software, I have eliminated X10 Remote buttons, RemoteLincs, and Controlinc\’s from the listing…. That should cut down on the number of \”Unknowns\” that were previously being listed… [download id=\”7633\”]
A small little birdie mentioned, and I\’ve verified that the current version of Google Gears, does not run on Snow Leopard (10.6 // 10A380). Â The speed difference is quite visible, between the use of Gears & without…. Hopefully Google will have a working version for Snow Leopard…
Designer and photographer Michael \’Flux\’ Chang has posted a wide range of Snow Leopard screenshots on his blog. The images detail a number a number of interface tweaks, including changes to the stacks in grid view, symbol substitutions, keyboard shortcuts and the voiceover utility. Apple has also provided new options in the MIDI setup, while […]
Have you ever wanted to quickly switch from High Performance to Power Saver mode to save some battery life? With a quick command line in a shortcut, you can do it with a keystroke. Here\’s a quick-and-dirty method to create a shortcut for switching between Windows power management plans—and once you have the command line, […]
Typically Mac OS X is configured to set the default printer to the last printer you just used… Â But that\’s not always correct… In some cases, people with laptops have attempted to use a printer that isn\’t available, and that has caused the laptop\’s fan to run constantly, since Mac OS X is attempting to […]
Folks, One Major issue that I have with Time Machine, is that the OS does not warn you (reliably) if you go too long between backups. Here\’s a python script that can do so… Â It\’s primarily designed for attached (usb/firewire) storage, but I have added support for Time Capsule style backups… Â When run, the script […]
If you\’ve ever wanted to remotely reboot a Windows box from your machine, the following tip can be useful… Any Macintosh OS X system can reboot a windows machine, assuming that you know the credentials of an Administrative Account on the Windows system. Â Open the Terminal and use the following command line: net rpc shutdown […]
Apple includes as part of the Printer Libraries, a small conversion utility. Â I presume it is used to help convert certain formats to either PDF or Postscript internally… Â But here\’s some fun we can have with it. For example, let\’s say we have a file called \”my.html\”, but using this command line: /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f my.html […]