http://blog.bradbergeron.com Sat, 13 Sep 2008 14:36:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have you ever gone to your favorite band's MySpace page and found they've uploaded a new track or demo from their upcoming album and wished you had a way to download it so you could put it on your iPod until you can actually buy the new album? Well then, ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2008/07/safari-tip-download-myspace-music/ For anyone who has recently attempted to create an install of Leopard on your flash drive á la this tutorial I posted back in November of 2006, you may have noticed that two of the package receipts required to get the system running, namely BaseSystem.pkg and Essentials.pkg, have disappeared from ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2008/06/a-leopard-fix-is-coming/ About two and a half months ago, Paul Stamatiou posted an article detailing how you could build a decent bare-bones PC for around $200 that could be a Linux-powered Web/file server. That got me thinking about the old PC I have under my desk (read: table), a Compaq Presario 5WV280 ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2008/04/rebuilding-an-old-pc/ About a week ago, I was sitting in my Physics 6A lecture when I heard an instantly familiar sound coming from someone's cell phone. Within a millisecond of the sound wave being interpreted by my brain, I was instantly recalling memories of the good ol' days of playing one of ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2008/01/iphone-ringtone-metal-gear-solid-codec/ In the twelve short hours that I've been using the retail version of Leopard, I've discovered a small, easily overlooked, yet very handy feature in iChat. It is now possible to customize the shortcut order for your accounts/contact lists without having to use Chax or some other enhancer. Not only ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/10/leopard-tip-re-map-your-contact-list-shortcuts-in-ichat/ I have just spent the past 28 hours or so (minus seven hours for sleep and two hours for errands) 19 hours imaging, formatting, reinstalling, and restoring a Windows XP-based Dell for my sister, and yet again I remember the oh-so-many reasons why I'm a Mac person. I arrived at ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/07/working-with-windows-or-why-i-use-macs/ Here are two Automator actions I created that will take selected images from the Finder and create a Keynote slideshow from them. In addition to the "Create Keynote Slideshow" action, the "Automagic Slideshow" action will automatically export the slideshow to a QuickTime Movie. Requires Keynote Actions from Automator.us (included) and ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/07/keynote-automator-actions/ Paul Stamatiou has been working hard the last week and a half or so on an idea that he's kept rather secret. After a week of Twitter updates expressing his fun with the coding, he announced/launched FickrSlidr, a simple and easy-to-use tool for generating embed-able photo slideshows, a la flickr. ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/05/stammys-latest-creation-flickrslidr/ Yes, I spelled that correctly. Virb is an upcoming social networking site brought to us by Unborn Media, the people behind PureVolume, one of the most successful and well-known social music sites. Today I scored an invite thanks to Paul and a generous reader of his blog, and have had ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/02/a-new-virb/ As most Mac users will know, Tiger has a built-in screensaver for displaying RSS feeds. And it's pretty damn nice, too. The first time my dad saw it at the Apple Store in Lyndhurst, he commented on how cool the animations were. Being the only Mac convert in my family, ... http://blog.bradbergeron.com/2007/01/a-digg-screensaver-for-os-x/