Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I’m in Connecticut at the moment, I’ll be back on Saturday. I think I’m going to a real arcade on the weekend <_< yeeeaaahhh...
A Series of Tubes
An archive of old posts.
Monthly Archives: November 2007
Ratatouille
I just saw Ratatouille (Disney/Pixar’s latest film), for the first time. I must say, it is probably the best Pixar film yet, besides not only looking fantastic (even better than what I’ve come to expect from Pixar), it also had the most interesting plot in my opinion, and was very well made all together.
Gametap Expired!
My Gametap subscription just expired, after a year of having it. I hadn’t even been thinking of it as a subscription-based service, because I bought a whole year’s worth. Now I have to fork over $60 to keep playing…Bummer…
How to Unify Firefox (The Simple Way)
Firefox 3 beta 1 was released today, and it’s pretty cool. Support for animated pngs, smooth scrolling, lots of stuff. It uses native aqua form widgets (as in, check boxes and buttons and such are aqua now), and best of all, has a unified theme. It’s not built-in, though. Here’s how to install it:
- Download this file (this is the theme)
- Go to Tools > Add-ons
- Go to Themes
- Drag the file you downloaded from your desktop to the Add-on window
- OK anything that pops up, restart Firefox
- Go back to the theme selection window, and select ‘use this theme’ for Proto. Restart again
And now you should have sweet, sweet, unified Firefox-y goodness:
Oh, also: most of your plugins will probably be broken, so I strongly recommend getting the Nightly Tester Tools Plugin, which (once installed) allows you to make almost all of your disabled plugins compatible with Firefox 3.
Dr. Who Children in Need Special
For the Dr. Who fanatics out there, the Dr. Who Children in Need Special 2007 is now out, and it’s awesome. It stars both the 10th and 5th Doctors in a short clip involving their two TARDIS’s merging accidentally. It really is great, go watch it. I lol’d.
How to Fix Broken Screenshots in Leopard
WOOT! I can now take screenshots in Leopard, thanks to this fix! Here’s what to do if your screenshot thinger is broken:
- Open Terminal.app (it’s in Applications/Utilities)
- Type this:
open ~/Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist - When the window pops up, open root and find AppleDisplayFactor (it should be the second one)
- Select this, and press the Delete button
- Save, Quit
- You can quit Terminal.app as well
Now try taking a screenshot, and it should appear on your desktop like it used to!
Thanks a ton to Shaahin for helping me figure this out!
Remember, Remember
Remember, remember,
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder Treason and plot.I know of no reason
The Gunpowder Treason
Should ever
Be
Forgot.
On this day, the fifth of the eleventh, 402 years ago, a group of English radicals attempted to assassinate James I by blowing up the Houses of Parliament. I had no idea, until I saw V for Vendetta when it came out, and I’ve celebrated November 5th as a holiday ever since. So here’s to the Fifth of November!
Edit: Re-reading this, I realize I must look like some kind of freaky terrorist or something <.< Go watch V for Vendetta, you'll see what I mean. ^^
Leopard Annoyances
These are my annoyances, meaning small problems. Not show-stoppers by any means, and all things that could easily fixed though patches/hacks.
1. Time Machine does not allow you to even open the UI unless the disk is plugged in.
2. Adium windows do not behave correctly in spaces (I set them to ‘every space’, they have a tendency to stick to one)
3. Half-assed 512×512 icon support. Ok, the .icns format now supports 512×512 icons, but if you don’t give us the option to view them that big in finder (without hacks, which I discovered today), what’s the point? Yeah, coverflow. I WANT MY ICONS GIANT! 😀
4. Stacks can not be viewed in fan mode when the dock is on the sides
Apart from these 4 little things (2 being the worst by far), I’m absolutely loving Leopard so far. I take back what I said earlier about it being slow, it’s just as zippy as Tiger was after a few restarts.
Edit: OH and 5. I can’t take screenshots. This is a very, very, very annoying problem, but it seems like it’s a problem only I have, not a wide-spread thing. I can even do it on other accounts, but on my main one it just doesn’t take em. ;_;
Keyboard Issues
My computer is having some very strange issues. Specifically with the keyboard. Every now and then it will simply stop responding (the keyboard that is). The computer works fine, but the keyboard is completely dead. Plugging in an external keyboard works fine, but the built-in one is dead for a few minutes before randomly coming back. x_x I have no idea what to do…