So I have seen people using all types of ways to download songs off MySpace band pages, but I just found a very easy way using Safari and TextEdit or any type of text editor. First, open TextEdit (or any other program you can make a web file with) and make sure the new document setting (in Preferences) is set to plain text, then open a new file. Put in the following HTML code: asdad Then choose File » Save As, and change the default .txt extension in the filename to .html and hit Save. A window will appear; click Use .html to confirm the extension. Test the file by control-clicking and selecting Safari from the Open With menu. Safari should open the file and display a link. Leave the file open in TextEdit for later use. Next, find the band page you would like to download the song from. In the menu bar in Safari, select View » View Source. In the menu bar, select Edit » Find » Find (or just press Command-F), ...
I've created a small script that runs against a web app built on Google's new App Engine. The app parses a few photo feeds, stores the photos in a database, and can generate custom feeds which will enable the use of the photos in the feed as a Screen Saver, or Desktop background photos. So far, two feeds are parsed (with the approval of their owners): Chromasia: http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/feed/chromasia Daily Dose of Imagery: http://deskfeed.neophytou.net/feed/ddoi These feeds are ready to be placed in iPhoto, and be used as Screen Savers or Desktop backgrounds. The disadvantage of using iPhoto however is that only one feed can be used at a time (there isn't a feed that produces the photos from both blogs together - yet), whenever iPhoto refreshes it has to download all the photos from the server again, and to update the stored photos one must launch iPhoto and click refresh, manually. To get around this, I created a sma...
We all know that you can create folders in Firefox (I'm using Firefox 3's public beta) into which bookmarks may be placed; this aids in organization and, when these folders are placed into the bookmarks toolbar, they consume less space as the bookmarks now appear in little menus. I discovered that you may actually drag the bookmarks that are in these Bookmarks Toolbar menus right in the menu and reorder them with having to actually open the Bookmarks dialog. Just click-and-hold, and when you drag, you'll see a small insertion line. Drag it to the desired spot, then drop. [robg adds: This only works in Firefox 3, which is currently in developer (but public) beta -- I've actually been using Firefox 3 as my primary browser for the last month or so. While it's very stable, there are still a few bugs and things that don't quite work right, so you may not want to use it full time just quite yet....
I found this by accident while trying to find a target for a broken alias. While browsing the file system in an File » Open dialog box, pressing Command-R will open (and bring to the front) a new Finder window showing the chosen item's folder in the Finder. Note that you must have a file or folder selected in the dialog box for this to work. Curiously, the File » Save dialog box also tries to perform this behavior, but only switches to the Finder without the desired folder appearing in a new window. Presumably this is because you cannot select a file in the Save dialog box.
The macosxhints Rating:[Score: 9 out of 10] Developer: Peter Borg/ Product page Price: Free (Open Source)Lingon has been mentioned in many hints, including one of its very own. However, it's never been a PotW, so now I'm taking care of that oversight.Lingon is a GUI interface (10.5 only) to the launchd process in OS X. launchd is a way to run things on a schedule -- previously, cron could be used to to this (and it still can, but launchd is the preferred solution). As a user,...
Even if the Headers and/or Footers are turned off in Document Margins of a Pages '08 (v. 3.02), the values that were in these fields when the check boxes were checked become the minimum top/bottom margins for the page.If your margins appear too large for what you have specified in the top/bottom margin fields, turn on the header/footer margins, type in a number less than or equal to your desired margin, and then turn the header/footer back off. Your margins should now match what you have put into the top/bottom margin fields.
By default, the AirPort Utility only allows several 802.11n radio mode options as shown in this screenshot -- basically four different 802.11n modes: b/g compatible, 2.4GHz, 802.11a compatible, and 5GHz. To get four more options (b/g/a only, without n), just hold down the Option key while clicking on the Radio Mode drop-down menu in Airport Utility's Wireless tab. You should see a list of options just like this one.This is documented in Apple's current Designing AirPort Networks PDF, but is somewhat hidden in the middle of the document as a side note! Maybe this is of help for someone trying to create an "n-less" WLAN.
This hint (from way back in 2003) is still the best I have come across in terms of explaining how to partition HFS+ and FAT32 on the same external hard drive. In this hint, I'll explain how to add NTFS to the mix, and note some significant improvements upon the previous hint's awesome efforts. If needed, print this hint, and then go to the above link for more help (and there's another link further down that may be of some help).To add NTFS to the mix from the previous hint, in the first step, just divide things up into three parts instead of two. Then, after step seven in the first hint, insert a similar-looking step -- put 2s3 at end of command instead. Finally, use a Windows machine to reformat the remaining VOLUME you formatted to FAT32 to NTFS instead. (Control Panel » Administration Tools » Computer Management » Disk Management.) Here's my real contribution to improving the ...
If you followed this hint to create a Recent Items stack in the 10.5 Dock, you know that by default it shows or lists five items.Now, if you're like me, you'll think it looks silly with a row of three on the top and only two on the bottom. To change it so that there are six items listed, go to the Terminal and type this:defaults write com.apple.recentitems ABC -dict MaxAmount nnReplace ABC with either Applications or Documents, and replace nn with an even number. Your stack (and the Recent Items menu) should now have an even number of entries.[robg adds: You can use the Appearance System Preferences panel to specify certain numbers of recent items, but the above command gives you precise control. When I tried it, however, the resu...
With this week's renewed attention on "Mac clones" -- we published five articles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) on the subject this week on Macworld.com -- I thought it'd be interesting to gauge the interest level in these machines, so I've posted a new poll on the subject.You'll note that one of the poll answers is "Yes if Apple makes it legal to use OS X on one." What this means is that Apple would offer a version of OS X that was legal to use on a generic PC, and that they would do their best to insure that system updates did...
I use a 2.33Ghz MacBook Pro as the main workhorse for my production business, and I have Windows XP SP2 installed via Boot Camp to run some Windows-only software that I need to run natively (ie not in Fusion or Parallels). However, I soon tired of switching the boot disk from 10.5.2 to XP and back. So I came up with this little timesaver by putting shortcuts to the System Preferences Startup Disk panel (in OS X) and the Boot Camp Control Panel (in Windows XP) on their respective desktops and dock. It saves me a couple of steps and makes the rebooting process acceptable. In Mac OS 10.5.2, navigate to /System/Library/PreferencePanes, and find StartupDisc.prefPane. Create an alias of the StartupDisc.prefPane, and drag the alias to the Desktop or the Dock. I changed the icon to a Windows icon, and the text to Shortcut to Win XP. While in Windows XP, open the Control Panel, then right-click on the on the Boot Camp Control Panel item. Select Send to Deskto ...
iWork apps only allow hyperlinks to web pages, to create email messages, and to bookmarked pages in your iWork document. However, I find it useful to have links to other files in the iWork document, as it saves digging around the file system. I normally create links by selecting the file in the Finder then going to Services » TextEdit » New Window Containing Selection. This opens a TextEdit window with a link to the file, which I can then copy into any Cocoa based document. iWork apps, however, only paste this link as text. To overcome this, I type in a line of text in the document (or in a comment) that specifies some combination of Spotlight type, attribute, and search text. I can then highlight this text and use a keyboard shortcut for the Spotlight Services menu item to bring up a Finder window containing matching items. This search can be very precise if required, and has the additional benefit that if the files are moved, they can still be found -- a traditional l...
This workaround fixes many of the problems reported all over about the inconsistencies syncing Gmail IMAP with Mail.app. It keeps your inbox and sidebar nice and clean with proper mail counts. All other Gmail behaviors (trash vs. archive) remain the same. Within Gmail.com's web interface, make the following labels (Mail.app treats labels as folders): IMAP/Sent IMAP/Trash Then, within Mail.app's Accounts Preferences, on the Mailbox Behaviors tab, check/set these things: Uncheck "Store draft messages on the server." (I noticed that Gmail.com erroneously keeps several incremental copies of each message and later deletes them, so I just disabled this option to avoid the problem altogether.) Check "Store sent messages on the server" and select your deletion interval -- mine is set to one week. Uncheck "Store junk messages on the server." Check "Move deleted messages to the Trash mailbox." Check "Store de...
If you are one of those people that are crazy about the last little extra kilobyte of space on your hard drive, then this is the tip for you. Most people know that in Automator, you can save your project as a workflow or as an application (assuming you're not making it a plug-in). Applications work with a double-click, but workflows must be opened and run from Automator, which takes both time and CPU. Applications, however, take up more drive space than workflows. Here's how to get the best of both worlds. In the Save As dialog in Automator, save your project as an Application. Back in the Finder, Control-click on the newly-creatd application and pick Show Package Contents from the pop-up menu. Open the Contents folder, and inside there is a file called document.wflow. Drag this file to your desired destination and delete the original application. Now you have a small file -- like a workflow -- but one that can be run with a double-click, like an application.
As a system admin, from time to time in Apple Remote Desktop (ARD), I find a system that is no longer showing the correct name (often the name shown is the IP address reversed ie: 31.0.0.10). This can prevent the system from being controlled or running reports for your task server.To correct this remotely, you'll need to use one of the following two solutions -- I prefer the first method, assuming you've enabled remote login (ssh).Method #1:Open Terminal and ssh to the system in question: ssh administrator@ip.of.target.system. Enter the admin password, and if prompted to accept the certificate, type YES then press Enter.Type cd /Library/Prefrences and press Enter.Type mv com.apple.ARDagent.plist com.apple.ARDagent.plist_bad and press Enter. Repeat this command with com.apple.RemoteDesktop.plist and com.apple.RemoteManagement.plist -- remember to add _bad to the en...