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. Read more…
About a week ago, I was sitting in my Physics 6A lecture when I heard an instantly familiar sound coming from someone’s cell phone. Within a millisecond of the sound wave being interpreted by my brain, I was instantly recalling memories of the good ol’ days of playing one of my favourite video game series: Metal Gear Solid. When I came home that evening, I went to work on creating my own version of the Codec ringtone for my iPhone. And now I’m sharing it with you. Enjoy!
Download: Codec.m4r
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. Read more…
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. Read more…
Remember when it was first revealed the Windows XP could be installed and booted off of a USB flash drive? Well, great for Windows users. What about Mac users? We were left out in the cold. If one were to search hard enough in the vast Web index that is Google, one could find just the snippets of how to boot a system from a USB drive, how to set a drive as bootable, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing guiding the way to creating a bootable installation of Mac OS X on a flash drive. I’m here to help. Read more…