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 types filtering […]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
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 off with some […]
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 […]
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.
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 […]