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There’s more to customizing your desktop than changing the wallpaper. Here’s how some Macworld readers and contributors have made their virtual work environments their own.
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Your Mac, your way: the workspace
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Mac OS X Hints is closed today in observance of Memorial Day in the United States. The hints will return as usual tomorrow morning
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No new hints today…
This hint combines two common documented tools into a time-saving trick. It requires is that you have a picture for your desktop. To use that image as your desktop picture: Open the picture in Safari
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A fast and simple way to set a desktop background image
I use Path Finder as a Finder replacement on all my machines; I really like the added features it brings to the table. While reading some other stuff about Path Finder, I stumbled across this thread in the CocoaTech forums. There you’ll find a number of AppleScript tidbits for Path Finder, many going back a few years.
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Move and size a Path Finder window based on stored values
A reader emailed me a question; he wanted to know how to identify what sort of recordable media (CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-R, etc.) was in his machine’s optical drive. Obviously, you could hit the eject button to answer the question, but I wondered if the system would be able to help. After a bit of testing, I found three ways to find this info, though I suspect there may be more.
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Identify inserted recordable media type
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On my last project, we made extensive use of iChat’s video, audio and screen conferencing features. I found myself wishing I could record our sessions, as some of our discussions were extremely complex
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Auto-record iChat A/V chats
I discovered by accident that you can drag an iCal event on to the desktop to instantly create a .ics file that can then be shared easily with others. Just click and drag an event as if you were moving it to a new time. As soon as the cursor leaves the main calendar view area it will turn into a small “summary” version of the event you are moving
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Create .ics files from iCal via drag-and-drop