So in OS X there is a widget called Searchlight. I realize I don’t talk about things like widgets much. But this one really caught my interest. Why? Well, it takes your spotlight index and makes it accessible to machines remotely. So you can search your computer at home quickly or even through an iPhone. Very interesting concept. Playing with it now.
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iMovie: Publishing Projects to YouTube
Using iMovie you can quickly and easily publish an edited movie (in the form of a project) to YouTube. To do so, from an iMove Project, click Share and then click on YouTube… At the YouTube window (seen here), enter your account name and password. Then select a Category. Next, you’ll want to enter a description and any relevant tags for the movie and then select the size with which you would like to publish the video. Also, check the box for Make this movie private if you would not like to make it publicly accessible. If you choose to make a movie private then you will need to…
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iMovie: Importing Video
Importing video into iMovie from your camera couldn’t be easier. Just power up your camera, put it into camera play mode and then plug it into you computer. This will bring up a player window with a button that says Automatic and another that says Import. You can manually find the places on the tape where you want to import video and switch Automatic to Manual or you can just leave it on Automatic and let iMove import pretty much the whole tape.
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Mac OS X: Continuing to Reduce Image Sizes
We discussed reducing your image size by about 700MB in this article: Mac OS X: Alex.SpeechVoice But if you’re building your image from a host that has already fired up once then there’s likely to be a 2GB or 4GB file called sleepimage in /var/vm. This file is recreated on startup if it’s not present and needed. This will allow you to reduce image sizes by 2GB to 4GB. If you want to get rid of the file permanently on your imaging station you can run the following command: pmset hibernatemode 0 Since you’ll likely want systems to use this feature run the command on your imaged clients with a…
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Firefox Settings
From Firefox, type about:config in the address bar and hit the enter key. You should then be looking at some settings for Firefox. You can double-click on any of these and provide more granular settings that what is possible from the stock settings preference panel. Have fun assigning the network.proxy.gopher_port for Firefox, I hear it comes in really handy. 😉
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Firefox & Privacy
One aspect of Firefox that for now is superior to that of most browsers is the ability handle data that should be kept private. To enable the privacy features of Firefox on the Mac, click on the Firefox menu while Firefox is open and then click on Preferences. From here, click on the Privacy icon in the Firefox toolbar and then click on Always clear my private data when I close Firefox. This will clear cache, temp files, etc each time that Firefox is closed. You can alternatively clear private data manually by clicking on Clear Private Data… from the Tools menu when you have Firefox open. This will clear…
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Mac OS X Tiger: Sherlock
I originally posted this at http://www.318.com/TechJournal Just last week, I was in the midst of celebrating my birthday. It was more or less a camping trip and, like any true geek, I brought all my techie goodies with me just in case. I had my Laptop, networking/FireWire cables, digital camera, AC inverter (so that my car could charge all my devices), and rechargeable batteries. You name it, I brought it and they all came in quite handy on the trip too. When I filled my CF card from my new Nikon D70 digital camera, my laptop was there to download the pictures and burn a CD backup just in case.…
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Change Default Application for File Types in OS X
You can quickly and easily change the application that is used to open a specific file. Simply click on the file fro the Finder and then select Get Info from the File menu (or click on the file and then use the Command-I keystroke). Once there, click on the Open with: disclosure triangle to see the application that is currently being used to open the file. You can click on the arrows to select a new application for that file. You can also use this same screen to change the application used to open all files of a type. To do so, click on Change All…
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Run Windows Apps on Mac OS X
VMware and Parallels allow you to run Windows applications on top of a Windows operating system for Mac OS X. But what if you don’t want to buy a whole operating system, install it, support it, etc.? Well, there’s another tool that may work for you. It’s called CrossOver and can be found at: http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxmac/ But it doesn’t work with just any old application. The compatibility matrix can be found here: http://www.codeweavers.com/compatibility/browse/name/ In my testing it also didn’t work with all of the applications listed on the compatibility matrix, or it worked but there were certain features that didn’t work. So make sure to thoroughly test the applications you plan…
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ZFS for OS X?
http://zfs.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/