Mac Environment

Hey folks,

Today I was with a bit of free time, so that I decided to customize my mac.
Yesterday I started using Adium Now I can mix all my IM contacts in one contact list and in one unique window everytime I chat with two or more contacts. This is nice, because with 13″ space is a real problem to deal with
So I went to Adium Xtras site, and from there I’m just using the dock icon (pink Adium logo), and the status icons (hearts).

After doing this I thought it was so pink and so cute I decided to make some kind of theme
First I changed the background to a Sakura tree (it’s hard to find a good wallpaper and i’m not sure about this one).
Second resolution was for the first time changing the folder icons (and from some applications too).
If you want to change a folder icon just open the Get Info from the folder you want to change and drag and drop the one you want in the icon you are using now (upper left corner). You can see the tip from Apple site.
The folders I’m using now are from Icon Factory They have some pink and “sakura” too, which matches perfectly with this theme.

And now what else? The Dock icons! Hell yeah… I never changed this icons :O I like the Macosx ones, they are very nice and I’ve been dealing with them everyday…
But at Pixel Girl I found a really nice, cute, flowery ones

At the end of the day, the result was…

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

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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!

Dictionary

I always loved Dictionary! Because always I have a doubt or something I want to know more about, I just type in spotlight (you can disable Dictionary from appearing in spotlight) the term I want, and instantly answers.
So, I was looking for “plum”, and I never realised I can see in wikipedia the nutrition facts about food! So, if you want to know if it’s good to digest at night, if has more vitamins and less energy; before getting in your stomach type it!!! It’s a nice advice coming from Dictionary… and you don’t need internet to do this, just a mac

Another reason why tomorrow I want to see whats going on in the keynote! To be jealous about people that are just waiting for this, to buy the new MacBook! @#@$%$^#&$^*
Oh eat plums, have lots of vitamins fresh fruit is healthy anyways.

Smultron

I always loved strawberrys, but for me they were just tasty “morangos”.
But now, and yesterday my true friend and superhero Arnan, showed me “SMULTRON” wow!!
LOL The name means strawberry, which sounds at first delicious, and when you open the app in fact it is!

Easy to use, free, good looking, and for nooooobyssss like I am is perfect!
I really discovered PHP with this little app, and MAMP (server).
They are perfect and actually I found a new thing to learn, and I enjoy it
Yesterday I said welcome to php…!

PS. I just made copy paste of a script
$shelikes = true;

Digital Color Meter

I like!
Digital Color Meter is one of the best utilities of Mac OS X! Well, for me at least is very useful.
With this you can see the colors of everything that is on the screen. You just go around with the cursor and says the color values!
You can see as percentage, value, bla, bla… and you can even select the aperture size of the selection!

I found on spotlight i just tapped “color” and a new world showed up!

Inquisitor

Inquisitor for Safari, all I have to say I-Can’t-Leave-Without!
In four words is that!

It’s free, easy, quick, and the most important thing: works perfectly whatever I need to search!
It’s the spotlight from the internet, I use like since I have a Mac, and when I formated the disk I realized how much that helps on Safari!

Download here Inquisitor.

Firebug

I discovered Firebug some days ago.
And I’m still exploring it! It’s very useful to me that don’t understand a thing about websites, HTML, CSS…
But Firebug has a thing that I love: you can chose a size to the letters!
No more small and “phone books size letter”. I think it does something that the Develop menu in Safari does, but I use a lot Firefox.

I’m happy with it.

Line in…

My great Line in idea, made me laugh alone in my car:
I was happy listen my new songs on the Creative and I started to listen “plui plui” and “vlum”…
You know? It was the sounds of the MacBook other applications: iChat and Mail!!

mmmm…