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Today's Fresh Blogs...| UltraNewb: Share your Mac's internet connection wirelessly |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Ultranewb, Wifi, Wireless |
| in a hotel room with your Mac laptop and your roommate's got a PC and there's one Ethernet jack. What do you do? You plug in your Mac and get to sharing the internet love, that's what you do! In System Preferences, go to Sharing and on the Internet tab, click the source (Ethernet) and the way the other computer will connect (for wifi, |
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| Featured Mac Download: Caffeine keeps your Mac awake |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:30 am |
| Tags: Downloads, Energy Savers, Featured Mac Download, Mac Os X, Sleep |
| Mac only: Single-purpose utility Caffeine disables your Mac's screensaver, sleep and screen auto-dimming with one click from the menu bar. Great for presentations, watching videos or extended discussions over something on your screen, Caffeine's much like the previously-posted Jiggler, but with fewer configuration options - just a single-click |
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| Stuff We Like: Remote control your home with Indigo Starter Package |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Home, Mac, Mac Os X, Remote Control, Stuff We Like |
| and control them from the Mac OS X desktop with the included software. This seems like the perfect companion for extended vacations and behaving like Kevin McAllister. Here's the bummer: the Indigo Starter Package will set you back a nasty $344 and only comes in a Mac version. Anyone out there know how to do the same for cheap (or on |
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| Featured Mac Download: Simplistic application launcher with Namely |
| Published: July 31, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Application Launcher, Featured Mac Download, Keyword Launchers, Mac, Mac Os X |
| Mac only: Freeware utility Namely is a stripped down application launcher. Unlike Lifehacker favorite, Quicksilver, which can be daunting for a newcomer, Namely is very simple and only indexes applications. With customizable hotkeys and positioning, Namely is more similar to a Mac equivalent of Launchy. If you're a recent switcher or never found |
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| Featured Firefox Extension: Smoother scrolling with SmoothWheel |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Featured Firefox Extension, Firefox, Linux, Mac, Mac Os X, Mouse, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Open source extension SmoothWheel adds advanced scrolling options to Firefox. Immediately after you install SmoothWheel (and restart the Firefox) you will notice much smoother scrolling. Additionally, SmoothWheel has quite a few other handy preferences like scroll speed, step size, and hot keys to scroll longer |
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| Time Tracker: Turn the terminal into a stopwatch with time cat |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 6:00 pm |
| Tags: Command Line, Linux, Linux Tip, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Terminal, Time Tracker |
| Mac and Linux: As part of their 150 quick Linux command tips, A Linux Sysad Blog demonstrates how you can use your terminal as a stopwatch by entering the command time cat. In order to stop the terminal stopwatch, hit Control + C; the terminal will then display the amount of time that passed next to "real". Time cat works equally well in Linux |
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| Unprofessional in Black |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 4:00 pm |
| Tags: Technology Mac Os X, Technology, Mac Os X, Technology Gadgets, Gadgets |
| my computer, which is a MacBook, not a MacBook Pro, and a lovely flat black colour. It's by a long shot the best Mac I've ever had. I gather the Pro line is due for a refresh soon; it better be good, because at this point anyone who buys a silver Mac is making a big mistake. Battery! Whenever I was working with my silver macs, I was either |
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| GIMP: Intermediate GIMP image editing tutorial |
| Published: August 3, 2007, 5:00 pm |
| Tags: Gimp, Image Editing, Linux, Mac, Mac Os X, Tutorials, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Cross platform, open source image editor GIMP is a powerful alternative to Photoshop that has many useful features waiting to be unlocked. Some of GIMP's intermediate features are demonstrated in this short video tutorial by the VnTutor weblog. The demonstration includes: working with gray scale, adjusting brightness and contrast, adding noise, |
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| Mac Tip: Permanently disable Spotlight |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 11:30 am |
| Tags: Desktop Search, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Optimization, Spotlight |
| Mac users: If Spotlight gets in your way, you can disable it permanently. Tech blog N.E.R.D. details how you can shutdown Spotlight for good -- and turn it back on again if you change your mind. To do it, you just need to edit a portion of the /etc/hostconfig file. Change where it says SPOTLIGHT=-YES- to SPOTLIGHT=-NO-. After a reboot, |
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| id premieres Rage at QuakeCon |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 4:00 am |
| Tags: Apple, Games, Gaming, Mac, Os X, Osx, Rage |
| held up on their end of the Mac gaming bargain, but id has moved a step closer. At QuakeCon over the weekend, they announced that the first game to use their id Tech 5 engine (shown off at WWDC) will be called "Rage," featuring driving in expansive, outdoor environments. id's John Carmack apparently told QuakeCon that he wanted to break with the |
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| Photoshop Tip: Give your text the Photoshop effect |
| Published: August 7, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Digital Images, Digital Media, Mac, Mac Os X, Photoshop, Photoshop Tip, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| Improve your Photoshop skills and make your documents pop with Photoshop text effects. Tutorial site The Photoshop Roadmap compiled 80 tutorials of text effects for Photoshop. The tutorials are laid out so you can easily see the final product before sifting through the tutorial. Although not exactly beginner-friendly, most of the tutorials are |
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| Firefox Tip: Tweak Firefox's rendering settings |
| Published: August 8, 2007, 7:00 pm |
| Tags: Firefox, Firefox Tip, Linux, Mac, Mac Os X, Web Browser, Windows, Windows Vista, Windows Xp |
| immediately -- causes almost all pages to show up faster. Besides highlighting several great tweaks, Computer World also references the about:config wiki hosted by Mozilla to explain and store about:config tweaks. The about:config wiki hosts thousands of about:config tweaks so you can customize to your heart's content. Hacking Firefox: The |
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| Spreadsheets: iWork's Numbers changes the spreadsheet paradigm |
| Published: August 9, 2007, 8:34 am |
| Tags: Iwork, Mac Os X, Spreadsheets |
| of how Numbers deals with those tables and handles templates, charts and Excel compatibility. Any lifehackers deep into the new iWork? Tell us what you think about it in the comments. First Look: Numbers [Macworld] |
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| Mac Tip: Add a folder to the sidebar with Cmd-T |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 3:00 pm |
| Tags: Finder, Keyboard Shortcuts, Mac, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Top |
| All-things-Apple weblog TUAW highlights a simple keyboard shortcut for adding any file or folder to your Finder sidebar: Got a file you need to remember later today? Cmd-T. A pictures folder you use for blogging that's buried deep in your Home folder? Cmd-T. A bunch of applications you're testing out for business or pleasure? Boom—that |
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| Featured Mac Download: Add shutdown, restart, and other simple tools to your dock |
| Published: August 13, 2007, 8:00 pm |
| Tags: Downloads, Featured Mac Download, Mac, Mac Os X, Top |
| Mac OS X only: Freeware application bundle Dockables includes a number of simple, one-use applications that perform system events like shut down, restart, sleep, sleep display, screen capture, mute sound, log out, and several more that you can add to and execute from your dock—or at least that's the idea behind Dockables (hence the name). |
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