macfidelity

Kurz nachdem mein iPod Touch bei mir ankam habe ich eine erste kleine Übersicht an Programmen verfaßt die positiv bei mir hängengeblieben sind, den ist man mal ehrlich ist zumindest im Gratis-Apps-Bereich in dem ich mich bewege viel Schotter dabei.

Hier nun Runde 2 mit hoffentlich wenig Schotter und einigen Fundstücken

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Neue Funktionen die aktuell (0.05) im groben eingebunden wurden

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If you are a Terminal lover you might try mounting .dmg files from commandline.

Basicly thats pretty easy, so just continue reading
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It seems that still some people get Macs without Boot Camp Assistant installed.

Basicly that should not happen with Leopard Macs, as Boot Camp is officially Part of Mac OS X since 10.5

If you have similar problems follow those steps to solve that issue:

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How do you guys trigger your lock-screen function with Mac OS X ?

On my mobile mac i am using MarcoPolo to handle my locations ( work, home, friends etc…). It offers the option to password-protect the screensaver in one location and having a password-free screensaver on the other location without daily fiddling.

So if i need to lock my screen at work i just use Mac OS X Screen Corners (with 10.5: System Preferences -> Expose and Spaces) and start the screensaver which is password protected.

Today i realized another quick and easy way to lock a screen in Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 using KeyChain Access.

Howto:

• Open Keychain Access.app ( /Applications/Utilities/Keychain Access.app )
• Open the Preference Window (i.e. like in most mac apps: APPLE + , )
• In the General Tab select: Show Status in Menu Bar

This should enable a lock icon in your Mac OS X Menubar. Quite nice and easy solution to lock a screen if needed.

Links:

• Wikipedia about Keychain

It seems to be a repeating question in Mac OS X related irc-channels, so let’s write the solution down once again.

Mac OS X has several methods to burn files. Unfortunally there is no pre-installed all-in-one burning solution so many users end up using free burn-apps like Burn or commercial apps like Toast. In general using a specific burn-app makes sense…but maybe the following solution is enough for you.

Now lets see how you can burn ISO’s using Disk Utility

• Insert a blank disc.
• Start Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility.app)
• From the File menu, choose “Open Disk Image” and select the ISO you want to burn
• In the list of volumes, you will now see an item representing the ISO file. Select it.
• Click the Burn button and follow the instructions.