In the quest for the perfect height to use when designing web elements for 1024x768 monitor, I did some research on what’s in use and what works.
Tthe ideal, practical height is 560px. Width-wise, I’ve always preferred 950px.
So- 950x560 it is.
Because I do this so infrequently and always wonder why I haven’t posted it before-
Editing a crontab:
crontab -e
i for insert mode
esc to command mode
ZZ to save and exit
It’s surprisingly easy to get remote applications up and running in Apple’s X11 environment. Once installed on your Mac, fire it up and add one additional parameter to your remote SSH connection +X.
ssh -X .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Once you’re in, just start the application you want from the command line. Here, I typed “firefox” and now I have firefox 3 running in its full X11 glory on a remote computer.
More detailed information can be found on Apple’s Configuring and Running X11 Applications on Mac OS X page.
For those times when you just hafta rotate.. Display Rotation Menu provides a quick and easy way to set the rotation of your monitor. And best of all, it’s free!
It took me one search too many to figure out that .cdr or Apple’s DVD/CD Master disc image format is the same as the common .iso format. No conversion is necessary- just a simple rename.
Many users are having compatibility problems with the latest version of Microsoft Office. This version introduced a new file type for the first time in 11 years. These new documents can only be natively opened by the latest version of Office on both Mac and Windows.
My recommendation is to “save down” to the older version in order to minimize problems with sharing files with other users.
Below are instructions for doing this in each of the Office 2008 applications.
In Word:
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Go to the “Word” menu
Choose “Preferences”
Click “Save”
And in the “Save Word files as:” dropdown, choose Word 97-2004 Document (.doc)
Finally, click “ok”
In Excel:
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Go to the “Excel” menu
Choose “Preferences”
Click “Compatibility”
And in the “Save files in this format:” dropdown, choose Excel 97-2004 Document (.xls)
Finally, click “ok”
In PowerPoint:
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Go to the “PowerPoint” menu
Choose “Preferences”
Click “Save”
And in the “Save PowerPoint files as:” dropdown, choose PowerPoint 97-2004 Document (.ppt)
Finally, click “ok”
The iPhone 2.0 Field Test mode can be accessed by dialing *3001#12345#* from the phone app. Apparently, this is the same code that’s used on other phones including some Nokia-branded models.
Using and understanding the values is another matter.
I’ve been spending a large amount of time in the MacOSX terminal lately. Naturally, I had to install a few fun terminal toys: (yes, I know both been out for a while)
Visor: gives you keyboard shortcut and slick animation to reveal a terminal window, similar to the Quake console
GeekTool: is a PrefPane that can overlay terminal output on your desktop. Very useful for watching system logs, graphs or any long-running process
A nice pointer on setting up Hamachi on OS X on the Magnetk blog. I had no idea that LogMeIn had bought Hamachi.
A post by BigBoss detailing steps for a successful 2.0 to 1.1.4 downgrade for “those of you that updated to 2.0 and realized what a mistake it was.”