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Are you tired of the standard background for the login window? Well, if you are running Tiger or Leopard, you can easily change this picture to anything you wish. This is handy for schools or organizations who want a static background showing off their spiffy logo.
For Leopard Users
To change the background, [...]
Changing the login window background
September 22nd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Tags: Login Window·Spiffy Logo·Static Background·System Library·Tiger·Window Background
Finding Big files on the Mac
September 18th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
If you are using leopard and don’t mind the CPU times, then go to Finder and choose View/View Options and click on “All Sizes” This calculates the size of all files within a folder. Very useful to see why you suddenly have 14MB of /Library files. If you have Tiger then…
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Tags: Cpu Times·Delete Files·Disk Space·Hard Drive·Leopard·Library Files·Options·Smart Folders·Tiger
Sim City, The Sims 3 and Tiger Woods
September 8th, 2008 · No Comments · iPhone
EA is going to town on the iPhone. I like these games, hope they don’t crash too much. My favorite will be Sim City and the golf game!
Tags: Crash·Golf Game·iPhone·Lt·Sim City·Sim Game·Sim Golf·Sims·These Games·Tiger·Tiger Woods
MDworker bogging Mac
August 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek
Like Windows, the Mac has lots of processes running. My current nemesis is something called mdworker which stands for metadata worker. That means nothing to me. But, apparently, this is the process that indexes files for Spotlight. So you can get it to go crazy after bad shutdowns where the Spotlight data indexes are screwed [...]
Tags: Core Process·Dual Core·Fashion·Hard Drive·Indexes·Mac 10·Mac Forums·Mac OS X·Mac Windows·Nemesis·Os X·Rm Command·Shutdowns·Spikes·Spotlight·Tiger·Typo·Windows Mac