On a Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system, you can give your computer a custom audio alert instead of using the generic tones installed by default on your computer. As long as the audio clips are AIFF format, Mac OS X allows you to use all kinds of clips, including musical tracks, a voiceover, or musical theme. Get creative and add your favorite alert sound to your operating system.
Step1: Open folder with custom sounds
Navigate to the “~/Library/Sounds” folder in “Finder” Command+Shift+G. The “~/Library/Sounds” folder contains all the custom
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tags: music,
sounds,
system preferences
iSync makes it even easier to make and keep your dates. That’s because iSync synchronizing software works with over thirty cell phone models, as well as multiple Macs, your iPod and your PDA devices.
iSync is used to synchronize contact and calendar data from Address Book and iCal with many non-Apple SyncML-enabled mobile phones via a Bluetooth or USB connection.
iSync located in /Applications/ folder
Note: Some devices being supported via manufacturer and third-party iSync Plugins.
Here list of links to iSync plugins for popular brands
BenQ Siemens
BenQ Siemens plugins
Samsung
Datapilot
Mactomster
Nova
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tags: address book,
iCalc,
mobile,
sync
You may never need this, but if you administer servers remotely via the built in Apple VNC, it is the best trick ever.
However, the VNC service occasionally crashes, and locks my session. It also refuses any more VNC logins. This is particularly frustrating when I am off site! Apple has analyzed this and has no explanation or fix.
Here solution howto fix it: If SSH access is enabled on the server, you can connect to the server via an SSH client and run this command:
sudo /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/Resources/kickstart -restart -agent
You must log in with
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tags: crash,
ssh,
vnc
A Quick way to resize images in batches could be find that Preview has that functionality. Open the whole batch of images in Preview; the images will all open in the same window with thumbnails visible in the sidebar.
Select all of the thumbnails in the sidebar (with Command-A, or click the first and then click the last while holding Shift). Next, from the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size. You’ll be presented with a dialog containing options to resize to all the common 4:3 and 16:9 screen sizes, as well as the option to define custom dimensions. Images are scaled proportionately and resampled
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tags: pictures,
preview
I could say - I always write code that’s valid and “Apply Source Formatting” as Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 does it , but the truth is I’m a hack.
I get things to work with spit and chewing gum, and my code is a sloppy mess. Tidy Service to the rescue!
Tidy Service is a OS X Service that cleans up markup using the powerful HTML Tidy library originally created by Dave Raggett. The version of HTML Tidy used in this build corresponds to the binary version released on February 11th, 2007.
HOW DO INSTALL IT?
Download Tidy Service
Copy TidyService.service file to /Users/<your home
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tags: Development,
HTML,
Text Editor
One of my favorite add-ons for MacBook and MacBook Pro’s with the keyboard backlight is this awesome app from Lab Tick that allows you to manually control the keyboard backlighting via a menubar item. Yes, you can control the MacBook Backlit keyboard illumination via the function keys as well, but having the menubar item is very handy, try it out yourself!
It’s been updated and works perfectly in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Control the MacBook Backlit Keyboard Illumination
Lab Tick – download now
Control backlight via MacBook / Pro keyboard function keys:
F8 turns off backlighting completely
F9
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tags: backlight,
menubar
If you are a web designer or do any work matching colors with photos, you are in luck. Mac OS X comes with a cool little program to help you get the digital value of any pixel on the screen. It’s called Digital Color Meter.
Here is how to do it:
Step 1: From the ‘Finder’ menu, choose ‘GO->Utilities’ or click Shift + Command + U
Step 2: Next, open the app, ‘Digital Color Meter’
Now, you can change the aperture size to smaller (left) or larger (right). Also, you can use the drop down menu to choose what format you want it represented in. For HTML coding,
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tags: 10.5,
Development,
HTML,
programming,
Snow Leopard,
Web
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