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OS X 10.5 stuff to tweakSeptember 14 2008

This comes courtesy of macosxhints and is definitely in a list of things
I plan to do in the morning.

*** Disable Shadow In Screen Window Captures ***

In Leopard, there is a shadow around whole-window during screenshots (ie,
Command-Shift-4, Space). This can be disabled from Terminal with this command:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

To make the changes take effect, logout and login, or restart SystemUIServer.

[robg adds: This works, and I activated it with killall SystemUIServer in Terminal. To add the shadow effect back in, delete the newly-added pref: defaults
delete com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow, then restart SystemUIServer again.]

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*** Set Help Window to NON FLOAT ***

he following Terminal command will revert the Help Viewer window to its “not
always floating” 10.4 behavior:

defaults write com.apple.helpviewer NormalWindow -bool true

Additionally, execute the following (bash) commands as an administrator in Terminal to have access to the application via Command-Tab or its Dock icon:

i=/System/Library/CoreServices/Help\ Viewer.app/Contents/Info.plist sudo defaults write "${i%.plist}" LSUIElement 0 sudo chmod 644 "$i"

Sources:

File Sharing Websites (No. Not THAT kind)March 17 2008

Here at work, we run across some pretty large files. The majority are larger than what traditional email can cope with. Traditional FTP is our primary choice. For whatever reason (firewalls, corporate policy, ignorance) some people just won’t get with the program - even when it’s FREE.Unlike Bittorrent, Azureus, Limewire etc., these are probably a bit more private. I’d send sensitive data through the sites below before I’d use the Bittorrent stuff.Firewalls and corporate policy are legitimate concerns. They may even make these apps below stop working. Give them a try to find out. They are really handy.Without further ado, here are some of my favorites: (note you’ll probably have to click on the picture thumbnail to see the picture. Not sure what happened…)

yousendit.com - About as simple as it gets. It’s free. It’s a website. If you register you get a few more perks. Registration isn’t mandatory, though. You need to know your email address and the addresses of the people you want to send the file.

As you can see from here, the interface

University of Alabama A-Day Game - Over 92,000 strongApril 21 2007

We attended the record-setting A-Day game (spring practice) for the University of Alabama football team.

I think most people went to see Nick Saban step onto the field as an ally.
There were over 92,000 fans there today. They had to close the gates during the 2nd quarter because the stadium had reached its capacity.