If you’ve read this blog before, you know that I love the Quicksliver application. To date, the existing bundled plugins and readily available plugi
ns have met my needs. Although lately, I’ve notice that I really would have like to have a shortcut to set my Adium online status to Away. After a little bit of Goggle-ing I found a number of solutions. However, none seem too clean as you needed to use an outdated plugin (if you can find it) or write some script. I did find a useful blog entry that allowed me tackle this problem a little differently.
Category: Tip
Way back when I heard about the new graphic format PNG, I thought WTH? Why would they go make another format as GIF was fine. When I started blogging, I did a little bit of additional research and found out there was a pretty good reason for the new format (‘new’ meaning that the file format has been around since 1996.) Here’s the wikipedia link on the subject.
In any event, I did find myself making screen shots that I wanted posted on the web. Not all of the screen shots were large – most being icons and the ilk – so I really didn’t need a jpeg file. So I did a little bit more research and I had implemented this little hack that allowed me to change the default file format of OSX’s screen capture. Of course, I didn’t bookmark the hack but fortunately the hack recently was posted on TUAW site and I thought I’d give it a mention here. (TUAW’s article)
-JT
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One Delivery Failure Per Minute
There are a lot bad people in this world — most of them went bad trying to make a living (or rip you off in the effort to get rich.) Case in point, and my current pain, are spammers. Right now I’m getting one delivery failure notice per minute for mail I never sent. It really, really makes me want to inconvenience the culprits lifestyle.
I currently have two domains that I actively use — recycledpapyr.us being one. I was informed by my ISP that they can no longer keep the identity of the domain owners private for the .us domain as per some obscure regulation that is being enforced. So all my contact information can be accessed by a simple whois command. That’s fine.. I really don’t have anything to hide. (The stuff that can get me into trouble has already been sealed by the judge…. 😉
Three times in the last two months I’ve had to deal with stuck DVDs in the MacBooks and MacBook Pro in the house. Unfortunately, all of the 
laptops/notebooks’ are slot-drives that do not have the pinhole that allows you to manually eject the stuck DVD/CD. Why, oh why is there no pinhole? I tried a number of things that I thought I would never do to a DVD drive. Eventually I had to go to Google for my answer(s). Macosxhints had some really interesting (dangerous?) suggestions.
I’ve had a surge of telemarketing calls lately and it’s prompted me to start some additional research on what I can do about it. There are a number of great sites with some great ideas and solutions around minimizing some of the unwanted calls. 
If you live in the US, the number one site everyone should register for is the National Do Not Call Registry. However, this only keeps honest companies honest. I needed something more.