How-to: Music video style notifications for iTunes

Over the past two years of using Macs I've picked up so many little things that I take for granted and it's only recently since a friend has got a new macbook pro that I've started to remember some of them. Each track I play in iTunes appears at the bottom of the screen in a music video style notification, read on to find out how.

# Permalink Posted on Mon 24th November, 2008 in howto, osx, Growl, iTunes and iScrobbler with 2 comments

New Growl works with Logitech

Today Growl released version 1.3.0 which has added a work around for Logitech Control Center 2.4. No need to Get your Growl back from Logitech any more!

# Permalink Posted on Mon 9th June, 2008 in osx, Growl, Logitech and lsucs with no comments

Let Google Growl!

I've been using the Google Notifier for quite a while now and it works great except for one small gripe - the notifications don't use Growl. I've now found a plug-in called Google+Growl that adds Growl support. It works along side the Google Notifier and allows you to configure how you want your notifications to display.

# Permalink Posted on Sat 31st May, 2008 in osx, Growl, Google, WaffleSoftware, ColorPicker and lsucs with no comments

SFTP in Mac OS

When Interarchy updated to version 9 and some of the features I relied on stopped working I went in search of a new SFTP client. I've finally got around to writing up my findings. As you can see, the only client that I liked was still Interarchy so I ended up using the old 8.5.4 build. Luckily, Interarchy have since fixed things and I'm now once again happy with the way it works.

# Permalink Posted on Mon 26th May, 2008 in osx, Interarchy, software, SFTP and lsucs with no comments

How-To: Get your Growl back from Logitech

For the past few days, since running some updates on my MacBooks, Growl's not been showing any messages. I've since found out that it was Logitech Control Center blocking the messages. The solution is quite simple, delete /Library/InputManagers/LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader then log out and everything should be fine. Thanks Zamboni.

Note (9 June): Growl 1.3.0 has a work around to combat this problem.

# Permalink Posted on Mon 12th May, 2008 in osx, Growl, Logitech, howto, lsucs and software with no comments

How-To: Make Interarchy 9 more like Interarchy 8

When Nolobe released Interarchy 9 I screamed at the features that had been removed that I used daily without even thinking about it. Luckily 9.0.1 restores most of these features, although you have to get the settings right.

# Permalink Posted on Mon 21st April, 2008 in osx, Interarchy, howto, lsucs and software with no comments

How-To: Stop iPhoto From Opening Automatically

I've stopped using iPhoto recently in favour of flickr but every time I plug in a camera or something that looks like it could be a camera iPhoto opens. A quick hunt around the internet and I found the solution...

# Permalink Posted on Sun 13th April, 2008 in osx, howto, iPhoto and lsucs with no comments

How-To: Finding the Character Map in Mac

I wanted to find a character to paste into some text, I looked in Utilities and Applications but to no avail. After some hunting around and speaking with colleagues it seems there is one built into Mac but it's hidden far away...

# Permalink Posted on Thu 17th January, 2008 in software, osx, Character Map, Character Palette, lsucs and howto with 3 comments

How-To: Get Rid of the Glass Dock in Leopard

Something that bugged me as soon as I had finished installing Leopard on my mac was the glassy dock, whilst it looks pretty it gets old pretty quick. It takes up more space than the previous dock and I've found it to be somewhat slower than before too. Luckily there is an option to turn it off... See how Jackilyn did it.

# Permalink Posted on Thu 1st November, 2007 in leopard, osx, dock and howto with no comments