{"id":1289,"date":"2011-01-23T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1289"},"modified":"2011-01-23T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T04:24:10","slug":"how-to-change-your-boot-image-on-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/?p=1289","title":{"rendered":"How to Change Your Boot Image on a Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked (in a comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog\/?p=872\">this<\/a> post how to change the image that appears when a Mac boots up. I was wondering this recently myself, and I came across the absolutely excellent <a href=\"http:\/\/namedfork.net\/bootxchanger\">BootXChanger<\/a> app. You give it a .PNG file of the image you want, press &#8216;Apply&#8217;, and it swaps the image for you. You can even customize the color of the background around the image. Next time you turn on the computer, you&#8217;ll see your image instead of the Apple logo.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But Zib,&#8221; you ask, &#8220;what are you using for <em>your<\/em> boot image?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-23-at-11.19.15-PM.png\" rel=\"lightbox[bootxchanger]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2011\/01\/Screen-shot-2011-01-23-at-11.19.15-PM-300x247.png\" alt=\"What do you think?\" title=\"What do you think?\" width=\"300\" height=\"247\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Download it for yourself <a href=\"http:\/\/zibland.com\/blog-uploads\/2011\/01\/cyan.png\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently asked (in a comment on this post how to change the image that appears when a Mac boots up. I was wondering this recently myself, and I came across the absolutely excellent BootXChanger app. You give it a .PNG file of the image you want, press &#8216;Apply&#8217;, and it swaps the image [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4,9],"class_list":["post-1289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-in-general","tag-computers","tag-myst-gamescyan-worlds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/old.zibland.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}