Friday, March 30, 2007
App Pick: Onyx★
Consider Onyx to be MainMenu's big daddy. Its not a light app that does a few little tweaks, its a heavy, incredibly detailed app that does just about everything tweak-related on your mac.
From cleaning up the system to changing OS X parameters and hidden settings, Onyx is your digital deep system config and cleanup butler.
Its definitely a must-get app, and will come in handy when you want to say, change the start-up behavior etc.
Check it out at:
http://www.titanium.free.fr/pgs2/english/download.html
Happy Mac'ing.
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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Friday, March 30, 2007 10:37 AM
Thursday, March 29, 2007
App Pick: Natural Worlds★
So I may just be back on track with posting rhythms it seems, although I've yet to prove this.
I stumbled across a wonderful app called 'Natural Worlds'. It loads up in your dock and plays one of three available world sounds, Thunderstorm, birds or 'gurgling creek with birds'. Worlds can be submitted and created via instructions on the dev's website, my point is; there's no limit to the number of possible worlds that could be created and freely distributed.
If you are working on a project requiring intense levels of concentration, but the 'sound of silence' is buzzing through your skull, or perhaps you just need the iMac to pump out a few dB's of noise to mask the fan over-head, load up natural worlds!
Not as intrusive as music but its just as effective at silence-killing.
The sound quality of the 3 worlds is sublime and really quite convincing. My reflex to the bird chirps is sometimes to raise my head, initiating the process of shouting to quiet them down.
Primary complaints is that the app sits in the dock instead of the right side of the top menu bar along with spotlight etc. Perhaps this is a good thing, as it clearly shows that the app is open and that the ambient sounds of lush rain forest and birds chirping aren't coming from inside the filing cabinet.
Natural Worlds gets a total recommendation from me, definitely check it out at:
http://www.mts.net/~gbeggs1/NaturalWorlds/index.html
Consider making your own world and submitting it... I'll be doing that as soon as I find the time also! (Hyena's anyone????)
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★ 0 Comments. | By Skippy, Thursday, March 29, 2007 6:05 PM
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Eject Key Worries.★
If you've recently upgraded to 10.4.9 or you are planning to, then this might be useful.10.4.9 patched, amongst other things an issue that some users were experiencing, namely that they'd accidentally bump the eject key on their keyboards. Its right up there next to Mute, and other lovely buttons so its easy enough to do - I personally did it all the time.
10.4.9 addresses this issue by requiring users to hold down the eject key before the drive will eject.
Useful, but if you didn't know (like me) and were used to just tapping the key, it might appear as if the key is broken.
I had to do it all the hard way, cleaning my keyboard, shaking it and searching around for a spare, before finally dropping a notepad on the key - which depressed it long enough to eject the disk.
Happy Mac'ing!
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★ 1 Comments. | By Skippy, Sunday, March 25, 2007 4:54 PM
