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Saving a screenshot on the desktop.

• Command+Shift+3: This will take a picture of the entire screen.
• Command+Shift+4: This turns your mouse into a crosshairs. To take the screenshot just click where you’re like to begun your picture, hold the click and drag, let go when you have a rectangle over the area.
• Command+Shift+4, then space: Your mouse will turn into a picture of a camera. The camera will take a screenshot of a window. By pressing space again the camera will turn back into a crosshairs.

Video example of making screenshots

Copying a screenshot to the clipboard.

(The clipboard is the place things go when you copy them, once in the clibboard they can easily be pasted into various programs such as word)

• Command+Control+Shift+3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard.
• Command+Control+Shift+4: This turns your mouse into a crosshairs. To take the screenshot just click where you’re like to begun your picture, hold the click and drag, let go when you have a rectangle over the area.
• Command+Control+Shift+4, then space: Your mouse will turn into a picture of a camera. The camera will take a screenshot of a window. By pressing space again the camera will turn back into a crosshairs.

These files will all save in a format called PNG if you’re using Tiger or Leopard. If you’re using Panther it’ll be PDF and if you’re using Jaguar it’ll be JPG.

To choose which file you’d prefer to save them there’s a neat hack.

Open the application called terminal located in the utilities folder which is located in the applications folder.

/Applications/Utilities/Terminal

Type the following two commands into the terminal window and press enter after each:

“defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format“

then

“killall SystemUIServer”

 

image_format above can be whatever you’d like it to be; jpg, tiff, pdf, png, bmp and others.

Video Example of Changing the File Type in the Terminal Application

It’s a copyright issue. They think you’re going to be doing things you’re not allowed to. If you really need to however all you need is VLC media player. Start the DVD and take a screenshot when you’re where you want.

For more info on installing and using VLC media player visit this link.

Open up Garageband.

Drag an MP3 file into Garageband.

Choose Share –> Send to Ringtone

It’ll tell you to set this bar thing to be under 30 seconds.

Choose Share –> Send to Ringtone again

It’ll then show up in iTunes under ringtones. Tell your iPhone sync area the sync that ringtone and you’re done! It’s easy to do. Honest.

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307108

To keep iPhoto from opening when you plug in your iPhone simply open the program Image Capture which is located in the Applications folder.

Once Image Capture is running choose Preferences.

From Preferences simply change the “iPhoto” option to “No application”.

Tada! :] Close the window and quit out of Image Capture. Now iPhoto shouldn’t open when you plug in your iPhone and it had new pictures. 

Video Example

The concept is as follows:

1. Tell your mac to share things
2. Tell the PC where to go to find the shared things
3. Drag and Drop

Remember, it may be necessary to use \\10.0.0.000\username where you specify where you’re connecting. What should happen is the computer should ask you for a username and password. The username and password you’ll supply is the one you use on your mac.

Now a window should open. This is a folder filled with various folders that are on your mac. You can now easily drag files that are located in folders on your mac into folders that are on your pc and vice versa. Enjoy!

Here’s something I didn’t know. I know it now. -_^

I always figured something like a sleep timer existed but as I’ve learned from my iPhone just because something should exist doesn’t mean it does.

An example being when the iPod application didn’t support lyrics. I LOVE having lyrics on my iPhone why wouldn’t my iPhone do it? It was lame.

Luckily lyrics support came with a software update and I was appeased.

What I discovered last night has probably been there since the beginning. If it wasn’t, than it’s there now. So, if you have the most recent software update you should “take advantage”.

Anyways, I was listening to the iPod and was falling asleep. I decided I wanted the iPod to sleep in 30 or so more mins because I figured by then I’d be asleep myself.

I thought to myself, “How the heck do I do that?”. I figured I wanted the impossible.

Low and behold I decided to check out the clock application anyways.

From inside the clock app there are four options at the bottom of the screen. There’s an option for a world clock, an alarm, a stopwatch, AND a timer! A timer?! Just what I needed.

When I went to check out the timer application I noticed a “When Timer Ends” button. When you choose it you get a list of all your custom ringtones as well as apple’s built in chimes. You also get an option called “sleep ipod”. I chose it set it for 30mins and started to let myself drift off to sleep. 

Obviously my plan wasn’t perfect. I discovered my plan wasn’t perfect at one point during the night when I received a text message. I was alerted through the earphones. Yikes! Perhaps if I use this method again I’ll put the phone in airplane mode. 

Alternatively you would think you’d be able to set an alarm to use the iPod music. You can’t however. I’m sorry.

Let’s write letters! :p

A few simple options;

• Buy / rent them from iTunes
• Watch a DVD
• Rip a DVD to your Mac to watch later
• Visit websites such as Hulu.com

*ripping commercial DVDs is illegal under the DMCA*

Do you take a lot of pictures with photobooth? If so you may want to check this out. 

Here’s how I did it.

The first step was to start up photoshop CS3 and get all of the photos for the animation into one photoshop file.

file–>scripts–>load files into stack 

Next I examined the layers and the order they were in. I rearranged the layers that weren’t in correct order until they were… From there I opened up the animation window since it wasn’t already available to me

window–>animation

From the animation palette I chose the funny little button at the top right which gives the user more options. If the palette is in the weird timeline mode that I don’t understand use the funny button and choose to convert to frame animation.

Next use the funny button and choose “create new layers from each frame”

Now you have an animation. You can select all of the frames in the animation and change how long they last at the same time. I chose .2 seconds. next you can arrange the frames if you’d like Lastly you’ll want to export it. You have a few options… like a HUGE gif file… or you could make a video like I did.

file–>export–>render video 

There you go… the first video I rendered was 166mb which is a bit large. It probably would have been a good idea to change around the QuickTime settings before rendering. Instead of going back to remake the video I ran the file through a program called visual hub and had it make a good quality h.264 file. That file ended up being 4megs.

HP doesn’t make a printer driver for their 1600 laserjet. It’s quite sad. If you need to use that printer with your mac here’s what you can do. I found the info online and put it into practice myself. It works.

In summary here’s what you need to do.

It’s not exactly perfect and the color looks awful… but it works.

All of the information can be found at, 
http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/O…MacOSX/foo2zjs

In summary 

You’ll need to download:

http://www.openprinting.org/download…zjs-1.1-UB.dmg

http://www.linuxprinting.org/macosx/…3.2.15.ppc.dmg
and
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/g…c.dmg?download

I started by running the installer for ghostscript, then the installer called foomatic-RIP.dmg. 

Lastly I ran the installer foo2zjs. When it finished a terminal window opened and I ran through the instructions listed there. I chose the option for the 1600 and then pressed enter. 

Once all three installers have been ran open up print utility from system utilities. The printer should show up and choose the foomatic driver on it’s own. Once the printer is installed you’ll have b&w printing. 

To enable the icky color go to this web address. http://localhost:631/

choose the printers tab

choose set printer options

under color mode choose color over monochrome. 

Now color printing should work from your HP Color Laserjet 1600. Good luck!

• Cut the power by removing the battery and power cord.
• Turn the computer upside down to prevent more moisture from getting into the machine.
• Clean
• Air-dry
• Wait

UNPLUG IT!!!! Pull the battery out! Stop the juices from flowing!

The last thing you want after you’ve spilled liquid on your computer is for power to be running through it.

Turn the computer over! You’re going to need to stop whatever it was from penetrating into the computer even further.

Next you’ll need to clean it. If it was water there probably isn’t much you’ll have to do. Try to dry out the laptop as much as possible. Perhaps by removing the computer and using lint free towels.

If it was soda, alcohol, coffee, tea, or anything like that you need to realize that the sugars and acids and residues they leave behind will play havoc with your circuits.

Remove the keyboard from the machine. Use lint free towels and cotton swabs to soak up as much of the liquid as possible.

Rinse the keyboard with pure water.

Swab what you can reach of the inside of the computer with rubbing alcohol. Be extra careful with internal cables, they can tear or be pulled out of their connectors very easily.

Air-dry: Once you have the computer as clean as possible, you need to air dry it. Place it in a warm, ventilated area (like the top of the fridge) and leave it there.

Wait: Now - WAIT.

A classic mistake is to plug the computer in again after an hour or two of drying ‘just to see if it works still’. Applying electricity to a circuit that still has moisture on it usually delivers final blow to a machine that otherwise may have been OK. You’ll need to wait at least 24 hours before before powering on the machine, 48 hours would be MUCH better however.

Hopefully this will help. Sadly your computer warranty is GONE. Liquid spills will leave very obvious signs that any computer manufacturer will know to look for before honoring a warranty request.