June 2, 2008

How to change Leopard Start-Up Screen

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , — bise, 2:32 pm

One of the first things I changed after installing Leopard was the desktop picture. Not that I wanted to customize my computer, give it a personal touch, but i hated this space-timemaschine-pink-horror.

But until now there was still this well-known picture at the Login In Screen.
Here is how you also can remove this:
Go to /System/Library/CoreServices/
You will [...]

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May 21, 2008

switching between windows in os x

Categorie: misc — Tags: , — bise, 12:46 am

use command + tab to switch between applications.
use expose to switch between everything (but i turned it off).
but how to switch between windows of one application, lets say between different safari windows.
it’s command + <!
there is also a little app called wich. It is similar to the “command + tab” function, but shows a list [...]

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May 16, 2008

support for old scanners in os x / unix

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , — bise, 1:08 pm

My old scanner isn’t recodnized by os x “out off the box”. So I use the great vuescan, which supports a wide range of scanners and is a solid scanning tool with a lot of parameters to adjust the scanning process and the image quality.
But if you just want to make a quick copy of [...]

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May 14, 2008

OS X english-german translation for dictionary.app, edit: windows too

Categorie: misc — Tags: , , — bise, 9:23 pm

Like you might know, there is this great function in os x: check any word in the dictionary by hovering this word with the pointer and pressing ctrl+command+d. Works in every cocoa application.
Philipp ‘Lipflip’ Brauner provides a package that enhances the dictionary.app with the complete english-german vokabulary from dict.cc for offline usage. You can also [...]

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May 9, 2008

Java 6 for 32 bit Intel Mac, Power Pc and OS X 10.4

Categorie: Tech — Tags: , , , — bise, 6:06 pm

The last Java 6 update by apple only runs on intel macs with 64 bit processors (core 2 duo) and OS 10.5 intalled. Developers working on a 32 bit mac could check this open source project: http://landonf.bikemonkey.org/static/soylatte
” SoyLatte is a functional, X11-based port of the FreeBSD Java 1.6 patchset to Mac OS X Intel machines. [...]

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April 20, 2008

OS X StartUp Sound

Categorie: Tech, Uncategorized — Tags: , , — bise, 2:52 pm

Wie oft war ich in der blöden Siutation, meinen Mac anzuschalten und gleich darauf zu hoffen, dass die mich umgebende Ruhe nicht durch den Startup-Gong peinlich zerschnitten wird. Ein Deaktivieren des Sounds ist in OS X von Hause aus nicht möglich. Die einzige Möglichkeit ist den Rechner vor dem Neustart auf Stumm zu schalten, was [...]

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