Google Image Labler
Try to beat your friends with a game that helps everybody at the same time by helping Google label their images.
Give Opera A Chance
• RSS support. An awesome reader in fact.
• Ad blocking with selective blocking capabilities.
• Advanced pop-up blocker that only blocks unwanted
pop-ups.
• Widgets like on iGoogle. This is an AMAZING feature! I have
my Pandora player, weather, Google Maps!!!, etc... these can be
accessed anytime, not just from a webpage.
• Mouse gestures
• Notes for marking up webpages for future review
• Smart auto-fill
• Skin flexibility
• Downloader that works like DownThemAll!
• Mail and chat built in. Which is awesome because you can
sync your Opera browsers on multiple computers so your mail and
chat goes with you wherever you go!
The more I use Opera the more I like it, it's getting dangerously
close to making me switch it over as my default browser, which is a
big deal.
Amazon Kindle
Although the product is a little odd shaped and designed, the
feature set of the Kindle is impressive enough to more than
overcome the downfalls of the hardware. Built in WiFi for access to
all of your favorite blogs, that update all day long! Also you can
purchase subscriptions to most major newspapers and journals and
have them delivered each morning before they even hit the
newsstands. Access to wikipedia via WiFi and a built in dictionary
for any concept or word you might be misunderstanding. Check out
the Amazon page linked above for a full feature set.
iTunes Sleep Timer
For this you'll need an application called Script editor, you will have it in your applications folder inside a folder called Applescript, unless you were trying to save space one day and threw it out, any script editor will do for this very small task though if you did trash it.
1. Create a folder called “Scripts” in the
“Users/you/Library/iTunes/”
directory.
2.
Open the Script Editor located in
“Applications/AppleScript/” folder.
3. Type the following code:
Tell
application “iTunes”
Delay 3600
Quit
End tell
*note that you can change the delay time to any other time in
seconds.
**also note that you can change the "Quit" to "Pause" if you
like.
4. In the File> Save As… menu save the script as a
application, deselecting the Startup Screen and Stay Open options.
Save it to your newly created “Scripts” folder with
whatever name you want.
5. Open up iTunes. You’ll see a new menu that will give you
access to all your iTunes AppleScripts.
The only issue with this little trick is that once you tell iTunes
to start a script it won't let you do anything within the program
until the script is done. So if you change your mind, you'll have
to force quit iTunes.
Time Machine Backs Up Too Often!
Here's how you do it:
Navigate to: /System/Library/LaunchDaemons. There you'll find a
file named com.apple.backupd-auto.plist. Copy this file to your
desktop and then open it with any text editor (or Apple plist
editor if you have it!) and look for this section:
Change the 3600 number to some other time interval in seconds, Save and quit, then replace this file back into the LaunchDaemons folder, you'll need to be an admin. Restart your machine you'll have a new Time Machine's backup interval!
Leopard Dock Themes Made Easy
MenuCalendarClock
As you can see the clock at the top right with the iCal logo is MenuCalendarClock. You can set a key to automatically make the calendar come out and in if you like, or just click on it. If you click on the list icon at the bottom your to do's will come up and you can check them off as you complete them. When you hover over a date scheduled in your calendar (colored blue) a small text tip bubble comes up to tell you what's scheduled, if you double click on a date it will open iCal to that date!
Dock Separators
Replacing a Notebook Hard Drive
Well, I decided to check with my good friends over at iFixit and they had a great step-by-step guide with pictures on how to get to the hard drive. The short of it... a new 160GB Seagate drive and 24+ screws in little Sobe caps later and I'm inside my laptop, scared I might break something.
Well, that looks daunting huh? Well, it wasn't too bad... just a
lot of steadyness and being static-free.
After
I replaced the hard drive (bottom left in the picture), I restarted
onto the Leopard disc and chose the restore from backup option.
This lets you restore a system from a backup, such as time
machine.
It actually lets you choose any saved state to restore from. I chose the most recent backup version. Nevertheless it took around 4 hours to transfer the 70 GB from my backup drive. Now everything is EXACTLY the way it was before my drive stopped working!
Google At The Pump!
Now you can just stop at the station and print out directions to
yoru next location, how convenient? You'll never be embarrassed
asking for directions again!
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