Change Finder Background
Today I sent a print screen and someone asked me “hey your background is so cute! how did you do that?” Here is the answer… 
First open a Finder window, you can do this in all your background folders too.
I have different backgrounds in some! For me, is nice because I choose a color label and the background inside the folder matching! Is so colorful 
Ok, in the folder you want to change right click inside and “Show View Options”.
In there, you see “background” options!
You can paint with a color, or select a picture (the one i’m using on the screen shot).
There’s also another options in this menu! Actually, you can control de icons size, the space between them, or even show more info about the stuff you have on that folder.
Finally, it’s easy to browse a nice picture to colorize your boring folders
Posterino
Arnan bought a bunch of Mac apps in that promotions like 50% off in the whole package of some applications!
Because he didn’t want some of them, he gave me two!
One of those, is Posterino! What can I say about Posterino? Amazing! I stay focused on this like a child with his sweets!
So, I will make here a small explanation what Posterino is about!
You can make those posters with millions of photos to give to some special one Or just to print it and stick on the wall of your bedroom to remind those nice days and those nice people that make part of your life;
It has letters, postcards, posters and all in every relevant size I know 
It’s all about drag & drop your photos, and you can add a little stamp with the photo you want too!
I’m talking about photos because, I guess it’s what people most use! But remember you can use cute pics to give a special touch to your project!
You can also create text boxes, rotate every single image and every single text, edit with your favorite font, etc!
Aha! A sweet detail! You can create your own stamp! Yes that’s it, you can say it’s Santa’s letters without people knowing it’s you 
mmmm… or the Valentine angel saying to her/him you are the perfect match! Imagination has no limit!
Now is the funniest part! You can send the object you create by mail and save money and time, OR in another hand, you can send it by swiss post (international!) it’s about 2.99 eur or something like that, but doesn’t go with the stamp you created in Preferences menu!
But 
yes there’s always a “but” The Swiss Post is discontinuing it’s postcard service for small businesses. Therefore the “real postcard” interface implemented in Posterino will stop working on July 1st, 2009! yes…
If you want to use this little feature you must run Posterino
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About iLife ’09
iLife ’09 makes it easier than ever to get the most out of your photos, movies, and music on your Mac. Organize and search your photos by faces and places in iPhoto. Make a movie in minutes and edit with precision in iMovie. Learn to play an instrument or record your own music in GarageBand. Create a stunning website and publish it anywhere with iWeb. iLife ’09 also offers a variety of convenient Internet sharing options, including direct publishing to MobileMe, Facebook, Flickr™, and YouTube™.
What’s new in iLife ’09
iPhoto
• Faces: Easily find photos of the people in your life
• Places: Explore your library based on where you took each photo
• Themed slideshows with multi-photo layouts, titles, and captions
• Integrated Facebook and Flickr support for direct photo publishing
• Improved, more powerful photo-editing tools
• Beautiful travel-themed photo books complete with maps of your itinerary
iMovie
• Precision Editor: Just skim and click to refine your edits
• Advanced drag-and-drop editing with pop-up menu control
• New titles, transitions, and effects, plus slow, fast, or reverse motion
• Dynamic themes with coordinated titles, transitions, and end credits
• Animated travel maps customized to your travel videos
• Video stabilization reduces camera wobble and shake in your footage
• Full-screen Library browser uses Cover Flow to browse your entire library
GarageBand
• Learn to Play: Basic Lessons, a revolutionary way to learn guitar and piano
• Learn to Play: Artist Lessons, with songs taught by leading artists (sold separately)
• New guitar features including redesigned amps and new stompbox effects
• New Magic GarageBand lets you mix, jam, and record in full-screen
iWeb
• Drag-and-drop iWeb Widgets to easily add dynamic content to web pages
• Facebook notifications let friends know when you update your site
• Integrated FTP for publishing your website virtually anywhere
• Independent site management for managing multiple websites
Steve Jobs Experience Health Problems
Can this be true?
Preview - Instant Alpha
Hey all,
Today I needed to delete a background from an image! Well, Photoshop does it, GIMP does it, lots of apps will do it in perfect conditions!
However I was with the image opened in Preview (that awesome application!!) , so I erased the background simple and fast with Preview!
So as you can see you click like for 2 seconds in the arrow and appears a sweet tool called “Instant Alpha”! The only thing you need to do after select it, is click in the area you want to delete and make disappear from you image!
After clicking the area turns red (I guess) and you just click on “return” key. It automatically makes what you wanted: erase the area
Now you just need to save or save as, as you prefer! 
Core Image Fun House
Now you are thinking, “what the hell is Core Image Fun House?!”
Well, Core Image Fun House I discovered by a case! Dunno why, a picture I wanted to see opened automatically with Photoshop, so I right clicked it to open with Preview. Suddently, appeared “Core Image Fun House”…. mmmm… “let me try”
A new world came out to me!
To use this tool you need to get the Developer Tools (if you don’t have the DVD with Leopard, they are free of charge).
Then, just open the picture you want and play, enjoy, and go wild!
Core Image Fun House allows you to save as Fun House so it comes with an XML file
Lots of effects, and as we are used to: EASY TO USE & INTUITIVE
How to make Dashboard widgets?
Well, it’s simple and I’ll tell you step by step how to do them!
I know lots of mac users don’t know the “Developer Center” http://developer.apple.com . You can develope all Mac apps without being an “engineer”, or without knowing lots of stuff.
Little widgets like the one I’ll show you are easy to do, simple and very efective! And you can always say “i’m an Apple Developer” *cof cof*
Registering on Apple Dev it’s free, so you can create your account and download the Dashcode . This application allows you to create the widgets. However, it’s in Xcode! So you need Xcode that comes with Dashcode!
After you have all this apps installed and ready to use, open Dashcode
Now we are in conditions to choose one from the Template choser! We want to do a Birthdays countdown, so we need the “Countdown”:
So, we have the widget all cute and blue right on the middle of the work space! We need to edit it to do exactly what we want! And it’s really simple and easy! You can see the interface is very likely to all Apple apps, like Pages, or Preview, with the “Inspector” right on your side. So you must be confortable with Dashcode
If you double click on the “Event Label” you will see you can edit the text, and with Inspector, change the Font, Colour, etc.
At the sidebar you can see “Customize Countdown”, and there click on Countdown Properties. In the same moment you see the “Date & Time” field, so just put the date you want! If you choose 2/4/2009 is my next Birthday date
NOTE: Remeber the format is month/day/year
Now, you can “Run” your widget and see how nice it is working live
Pause it and let’s edit the colours with our old friend “Inspector”! You can put an image too! Easily
Just edit the widget with colours or images you like! It’s easy I believe you won’t have difficulties to do it!
You want to share it with your contacts and friends, so that they can remember your Bday?!
Ok let’s do that… but first let me make you a suggestion, when you are editing the colors/images put the image of the thing you want the people to give you as gift! Imagine you can put an iPhone and 3 or 5 from your friends give it to you
So go to “Test & Share”, only AFTER saving your project! Give a name to it and Save to Disk!
And you can put on your Dashboard too… “Deploy to Dashboard” .
Have a nice day!
iPhoto update
You can see a new update do iPhoto:
This update improves the printing quality of books, cards and calendars ordered via the iPhoto printing service.
What?! Am I reading this right?
>>> PORTUGAL <<< we can’t order the “books, cards and calendars” in a “normal” way, since Portugal is not listed in the country list…
Maybe I send the “books, cards and calendars” to my mansion in FL!
Apple should take care of our small country!
I Believe
I took this photo with a X-Files little lantern… looks cute
