Monthly Archives: July 2005

Looking back on 22

I think it was sometime in high school that I decided 22 had to be the best age… you are old enough to drink (but a year into it, so the simple novelty of it has passed), hopefully finished with or finishing up college, maybe getting ready to start that first big full-time job, maybe […]

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Lock Screen revisited

So just a couple of days ago I talked about locking your screen with Quicksilver. Today I discovered that Quicksilver actually has a lock screen in the “Extra Scripts” plugin, but it’s not visible by default in Tiger (seems to work out of the box on Panther). The problem is with the file […]

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Shibboleth 1.3 released

Just before going home on monday, Walter and I made the final release of Shibboleth 1.3. Okay, so he did a few things in CVS and I just kinda watched, but it was fun all the same. My last six months here at UofM have been focused on this release. I started […]

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Lock Screen

Yet another application (locktight) that I’ve replaced with Quicksilver…

After reading the comments in this hint at macosxhints.com, I discovered this little bit of applescript.

tell application “ScreenSaverEngine” to activate

You’ll want to add this to a Quicksilver trigger so you can it from the keyboard (I use Cmd-Opt-Shift-L because that was the default in locktight and […]

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iTunes podcast updating

Now this is a neat little feature in iTunes I didn’t know about — it will stop downloading new podcast episodes if you don’t listen to the ones you already have.

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