A long while a go I mentioned about Taking Screen Shots. This post detailed all about how to take screen shots and the various different commands which you can use to get the perfect shot. The one problem with Leopard is that windows have a massive shadow boarder. Although it looks cool on screen with all of these glossy effects, it doesn’t look good on images. With thanks to Mac OS X Hints, I will show you a way to remove the default shadow background.
A while ago I mentioned Freedom, the application to stop your network connections so you can get on with more work done. Well, I have been doing a lot of digging and found the Terminal command that does the entire step for you. Its obviously more manual but it gives you an insight into how ifconfig, the tool used, works.
This is quite a little interest on mine. Since I have a laptop I open and close the lid a lot when moving from one place to another. As a result some time I want to change what happens. For example keeping the Mac asleep when the lid is opened and keeping my Mac awake when the lid is closed. There isn’t any default methods of doing this within the system preferences. It needs a bit of hacking and using applications to work around this problem.
After you get to use Terminal more and more you will come across commands that you don’t know what they do. Instead of searching the internet you can find help pages right in Terminal. It works with every command that you can use withing Terminal.
A very simple and easy to implement hack that enables high definition videos to be played within front row. Very useful for people with high definition monitors or people with a high speed internet connection and wanting to get the most out of there viewing experience.
A following from a previous post about subversion, Versions is a great little application that can take the hassle away from using Terminal when using subversion. This application is very simple to use, doesn’t take long to get the hang of. As well as this, for the time being, it is still free. So grab it while you can and see how good this application really is.
