I'm learning how to use Keynote and I made a small presentation about global warming for my students, let me share it with you. And of course, if you have any ideas on how to improve it, please let me know
I'm not talking about the Taiwanese brand of computer supplies. I'm talking about iTunes 8 newest feature. Genius scans your library and compares it to the iTunes Store catalogue. This is intended to let you create coherent playlists, not based on search terms but in "songs that sound great together".
I must say that I didn't have much faith in this, but after several tries and some dumped lists, I got a couple of nice playlists that I thought were actually good.
Talking about upgrades, the lab at work finally was upgraded in RAM and we even got our own IP address where a weblog created using ThinkJot can be accessed from the internet when the server is up (not the case right now, but if you're curious, PM me and I'll give you the address). The interesting point is that we were using (for tests) 40 IP's and after I figured out the correct configuration, we dropped 39 and kept one, the other 39 are subnetted within the intranet!
Tomorrow I'll install SP3 on the XP boxes that -believe it or not- don't even have SP1 installed!
50-FUL-0H8 dice: (01:47:46 p.m.) que padre, comprame un iphone Filiberto Rosales dice: (01:48:01 p.m.) jajaa claro Filiberto Rosales dice: (01:48:11 p.m.) ya sabes que siempre te compro lo que quieres
Kirby Da One dice: (04:03:56 p.m.) Como le cambio la propiedad a un archivo de solo lectura aqui en la mac, pa poder modificarlo borrarlo bla bla 50-FUL-0H8 dice: (04:04:54 p.m.) ah, pues le das ctrl+click y te aparece un menu contextual, ahi le das donde dice "obtener información" y hasta abajo vienen los permisos Kirby Da One dice: (04:11:51 p.m.) Pero quiero elimnarlo y no me deja 50-FUL-0H8 dice: (04:11:53 p.m.) ... Kirby Da One dice: (04:14:17 p.m.) Ya se borro Kirby Da One dice: (04:14:19 p.m.) Kirby Da One dice: (04:14:30 p.m.) Es q no le habia dado aceptar
I've got to say that the Mac actually comes with a lot of neat stuff out of the box. In the last few weeks I've been learning a lot of some unsung features of my computer:
Dashcode: It allows me to create Dashboard widgets, from scratch such as my l33t sp33k translator and from templates like countdowns and RSS readers.
Text-to-speech: This feature speaks for itself (literally), Alex reads your text aloud and can make audio files from it.
Automator: It allows you to create workflows for different tasks such as joining PDF pages together, creating audio files and controlling iTunes.
iMovie: I made a couple of videos and uploaded them to YouTube.
It's really great to make the computer work for you, just like with my self-grading Excel spreadsheet ^_^
I went over to Manato's to get the pictures from the trip, you'll be able to see most of them at his and Federico's blog when they upload them. Among the pictures were some videos shot by his camera and I couldn't resist to try to make a movie using them.
So, when I got home, I opened iMovie and started to learn how to use it (I was going to, anyway) and I realized that first I had to convert every video to m4v using iSquint, otherwise iMovie won't import them. So after several minutes of choosing a song, adding video and photos and finally editing Eric's butt flashing, I finally got a nice video but couldn't stop there: I also made a "music" video for the IPN anthem using footage I had on my cellphone (so the video is rather low quality).
The best part, is that iMovie allows you to upload directly to YouTube, so now you can see both videos there, just log on to my YouTube site and enjoy my having nothing to do while I learn that in Campeche there's no Leon beer and I'm not at the party I was invited to.
I think I'll buy myself a video camera with my next paycheck. Gosh! Don't you love your Mac?
At school we have a computer virus epydemic and since I have a Mac it doesn't affect me. I'd love to run my server on Linux but I guess that Windows 2003 is all that I'll get in vacation. The point is that everybody's USB drives are infected and whenever I have the chance I try to clean them using my Mac.
ClamXav is a free virus checker for Mac OS X. It uses the tried, tested and very popular ClamAV open source antivirus engine as a back end.
It is great to check and clean my USB drive after using it on infected computers and in this way, I could handle a vaccination campaing among my fellow teachers and students!
If you're a Mac user, give it a try, don't become careless about other people's infected files, because they don't affect you doesn't mean that you can't infect other poor Windows soul (which they deserve for using that OS).
It's free and open source, BTW. Oh, and I spent all morning drinking the Chai tea Manatito gave to me yesterday ^_^
Leet (written 31337, 1337, L337, 1337z0r, 13370rz, and l33t), or Leetspeak, used primarily on the Internet, uses various combinations of ASCII characters to replace Latinate letters. The term is derived from the word "elite", and the usage it describes is a specialized form of symbolic writing. Different dialects of leet are found on different online forums.
I wrote a Dashboard widget for the Mac that makes that for your just by copying your text and hitting "Translate".
Have you ever had a friend who's alergic to pets? Have you ever wanted a pet at all? Have you ever needed to prove someone that you can provide (o sea, procurar) food, love and water to a pet? Then, Tigergotchi is right for you.
Tigergotchi is a virtual dashboard tiger, which is in need for some water, food and love. When you provide your tiger with enough of those ingredients, he will be happy and last a long time on your dashboard.
So if you want a pet tiger and no one gives it to you, download Tigergotchi now and don't let it die, or Manato won't let me have what I asked him for.
WIDGETIZE