Hi-Res LED Screen Color Profile
These screen often show deep blacks as dark grey. I’ve posted my screen calibration profile though, that seems to be quite accurate and true at presenting colors in a realistic light. Just downlod the zip file, unzip it, and place the calibration .icc file in the path included, then choose it from the display color settings in the system preferences.
Leopard Volume!
"Sure, you can use the volume key on your MacBook or Apple keyboard to do quick volume changes, but that doesn't adjust the volume that precisely. If you want to fine tune your volume, you have to either open System Preferences or click on the volume icon in the menu bar. However, you can also tweak the volume by holding down the option + shift keys and tapping the volume up/down keys on your keyboard.
As an additional note, you can also hold down the shift button
while pressing the volume keys to mute the "pop" that you hear when
pressing the volume key.
If you want to permanently silence the volume-adjust beeping, uncheck "Play feedback when volume is changed" in the Sound Effects preference pane and it won't bother you again (helpful for podcasting or other situations when you might need to adjust your volume on the fly)."
Calibrate Your Screen
Macworld has this slightly old, yet still accurate article on how to set up your screen quickly and accurately. It was a great help when trying to match my two screens so they were similarly and accurately displaying color.
Remote Pairing
So I knew that I could pair my computer to my remote so I tried
doing what Apple says, hold the menu button and next/fast forward
for 5 seconds in front of your IR sensor... nothing. I try it
again... nothing. finally I found out that if you hit menu and
select for 5 seconds it works great! Apparently, Apple doesn't know
all there is about their own products though, a little
weird.
Missed an article? Try looking on the Archive page!
Dock Library
You just have to head to over to LeopardDocks.net or Dockulicious.com, and download any theme you like, then click the import dock button and select the .zip file then select it and hit set dock. Couldn't be easier!
TimeMachineEditor
Your options are at an interval of specified hours, once a day at a given time, once a week at a given day and time, or once a month on a given date and time.
How to download a tv show you missed
Then go to tvrss.net then click on "Search"
Enter in, for instance, "House" into "Show Name" and check the
"Exact" check box so that the search does not include shows like
Desperate Housewives or Run's House. Then hit return, or click
search. You will see a list of what shows they have
available.
For most circumstances you'll want to choose a feed that is
not
720p quality, so choose a file that is any other option as listed
under the "Quality" column. Then click on the file you'd like to
download, and save the file to your desktop. The file should look
like the following:
If the file looks like that just double click on the torrent file
from the desktop and it will open Transmission and It will start
downloading the actual file. If it looks different, right click on
it and select "Open With" and select Transmission.
For optimal downloading go to Transmission in the menubar and then
click on "Preferences" click on the bandwidth tab and set your
settings like this:
This will ensure that your internet speeds won't go down while
you're downloading, which will keep everyone else on your network
happy 
. Any further questions?
Contact me!
QuickLook
To install: open your hard drive/Library/QuickLook and put the component file from inside the zipped file in this folder and log out. When you log back in QuickLook into a folder and check out the goodies!
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!
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!
Dark 3D Dock in Leopard
Get your dock looking like this by going to the
Goodies
page!
Guest Login
Guests can login and are allowed to do only the things you predefine. But instead of restricting your friends, you can pretty much let them do whatever they want because when they log out the account is expunged, and the next time it's logged into it's as if it's a brand new account again. Apple reinstalls the user each time you log into this special guest account, that way no matter what your guests mess with, they'll never do anything to your computer!
No More Dotted Lines!
Go to about:config and filter down the results and look for browser.display.focus_ring_width, then click on the on the parameter on the right and set the value to 0 (zero). This will get rid of that annoying dotted line and make your browser much nicer on the eye when clicking links!
Grab and Drag
Although Safari has wonderful RSS support that Firefox couldn't
hold a match to, I just can't have my Facebook bar with buttons for
sharing links or getting notifications when someone messages me. I
can't have a built in downloader that works like a dream
(DownThemAll!). I can't have the weather forecast(ForecastFox
Enhanced) in my status bar for me to check at any time. I sure as
hell can't use StumbleUpon features, or even my latest
addition...
Grab and
Drag.
This extension lets you physically drag the screen up and down just
like how the iPhone uses multi-touch. You can even turn on momentum
features so when you drag and let go the screen will keep going and
slow down to a stop with a friction that you set. You can alter how
and where Grab and Drag works, for instance you can set it up so
that whenever you click and drag only where there are no links or
text the screen will move with the curser, this way when you
highlight text the screen won't move around on you. So if you fancy
Firefox, check this out and you'll find yourself trying to scroll
with ease in tons of other applications wishing the feature was
available there too!
Fix That Mighty Mouse Scroll Problem!
The Mighty Mouse, for those of you that don't know, has a small
grey ball instead of a scroll wheel. It's awesome because it lets
you scroll in any direction and the scroll resolution is MUCH
higher than that of your standard scroll wheel. The only problem
with this amazing mouse is that the scrolling sometimes actually
stops working in one direction. This happened to me last year and I
got Apple to replace my mouse, but that's only because it was under
warranty, now my new one is way beyond that, and it was having the
exact same problem.
I once again scoured the internet for a solution and nothing I
tried seemed to work... except for one tip I came across that
explains how to clean the ball with 97% isopropyl alcohol and
Q-tips. If you want to learn how to do it check out my
Helpful
Hacks
page.
Multiple iTunes Libraries
All you have to do is choose the "Create Library..." button and you
are given the option to choose a place and a name for it.
What you need to know about what this means: This gives you the
ability to have two separate libraries on one computer under one
user. You can NOT open iTunes and use both libraries at the same
time. This option simply lets you make, or choose am iTunes library
where your music is kept. Preferences for each library are kept
completely separate. The only downside I see with having multiple
libraries is that whenever you open iTunes you will have to hold
option and choose your library.
For those of you with more than one person using the family
computer, this is a rather viable option if you don't want to have
different user accounts.
Front Row Hack
Wherever you fall, you probablty don't use Front Row. I know I don't use it very often, but it's a nice thing to have as a wow factor, and on occasion it's fun to use. Well, if you fell into the last category, my newest Helpful Hack tip is a quick and easy way to get front row running on your machine in 5 minutes and you only need to get to get your hands a little dirty for this one.
Note: This hack only works if you have an apple mouse plugged into your computer.
Cluttered Dock?
Got so much junk in your dock that it's hard to keep things in
order? Well I came across this genius (pure genius!) way of
separating your apps up. Essentially all you do is take any file
and change the extension to .app and ignore the warning, apply
anyways. Then just drag the file into your dock where you want to
divide apps. Confused? Look at the picture below and you'll see an
example.
If you can handle making your dock slightly smaller or handle it
being a little longer to accommodate the separators, this is an
excellent way of dividing your dock up so that it's much easier to
remember exactly where an app is on your dock. If you would like
these and more separators, you can download them from
here.
Once you download the .zip file open it, then put the separators
file in your applications folder. Then if you have a dock on the
bottom on your screen use the v-dockseparators folder and choose
which separator you like best. Then duplicate the file as many
times you need separators. For the separators to have no name when
you roll over it on the dock just label the name with spaces. Have
Fun!
