Why I Switched to Mac’s

my cool network names

Sun, 3 Jan 2010 18:50:26 -0600

I have a specific naming scheme for my home network
(James Bond villains), as follows:
SPECTRE - my network
Blowfeld - my mac mini (From Russia With Love, Thunderball, You Only Live Twice, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Diamonds Are Forever, For Your Eyes Only)
Largo - my sons macbook (Thunderball)
Scaramanga - my sons mini (The Man with the Golden Gun)
Nick Knack - our Linux net-book (Man with the Golden Gun)
Odd-Job - my iPhone (Goldfinger)
Goldfinger - our apple tv (Goldfinger)
Zorin - playstation 3 (A View to a Kill)
mr Kidd - apple time capsule (Diamonds Are Forever)
mr Went - time capsule hard drive (Diamonds Are Forever)
Trevelyan - my Wife's Win7 laptop (006 traitor in Goldeneye)

POSSIBLE NEW NAMES

Kananga (Mr. Big, Live & Let Die)
Drax (Moonraker)
Kristatos (For Your Eyes Only)
Orlov (Octopussy)
Carver (Tomorrow Never Dies)
Renard (The World Is Not Enough)
Chiffre (Casino Royale)
Greene (Quantum of Solace)

Create your own ringtone for free

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:18:08 -0500

Want your favorite song for your iPhone ringtone? It’s easy & free, at least for Mac users.

Start garage band & find the song you want in the song media browser on the right. Drag it into the editing window.

Listen to it & figure out the part of the song you want, I like to cut away the rest of the song so I know where to loop. Just select the point on the timeline (the red line will show you where you are at) & select edit/split. Now delete the end/beginning parts & drag the selected clip to the start of the timeline.

Select share/send ringtone to iTunes & you will see a box asking you to trim the length, select “adjust” & move the yellow loop slider to the end of your clip.

Select the share/send ringtone to iTunes again & voila, your ringtone is in iTunes.

Sync it to your iPhone & go to settings / sounds / ringtones & it will be at the top under “Custom”.

It’s just that easy.

Unless you have a PC, then...

iPhone/iPod Touch not syncing Birthday Calender.

Thu, 4 Jun 2009 20:19:28 -0500

This is an easy fix for the problem where the Birthday's calender (or other subscription cal like Holidays) is not being pushed to the iPhone or iPod Touch.

From iCal on your Mac (not the .Mac or Mobile Me one)
Export the subscription cal you are wanting to sync. Import that calender back into iCal, it will import as a regular calender. Now delete the subscription cal you just imported/exported, or for the Birthday cal just uncheck it in the preferences/general menu.

Now when your Mac syncs with Mobile Me it will push the new calenders to your iPhone/iPod.

The only drawback to this is the birthday calender won't update automatically when you add a new contact/birthday, you will have to do this again or add them manually.

My powermac g4 upgrade history

Sun, 1 Feb 2009 11:10:14 -0600

In Feb. 2009 I switched to an Intel Mini & retired my awesome G4. I hated to see the Silver Surfer leave, it’s weird how you can get attached to a machine. But I liked that computer better than any other one I have ever owned. I just needed more muscle than most people would, with all of the video encoding that I do. I needed the Intel core 2 to get the job done. My new mini is WAY more powerful than my G4, but not near as cool.

leopard dock

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:05:14 -0500

First make a folder in your home folder called “menu bar”, or you could call it whatever you want to.

Inside of this one create folders for the different categories you want on your dock. I have:

Internet
iLife
Work
Fun & Games
Misc Stuff
Tools

Then in each of these, you put the alias shortcuts for the applications.

Just go into the application folder, create an alias for the application you want, right click the application & select “create alias”

Drag the alias’s into the folders you created above, when you have all the ones in there you want drag the folders onto the right side of the dock. Very easy!