It’s brilliantly sunny outside and 54 Farenheit. Wow, upon walking outside to lunch, i caught myself in the middle of the thought, “It’s Spring”. Quickly i calculated the date as January 21 and my latitude as as 48. Spring? Here? Now? Not bloody likely. But it is an amazing day outside, and i may escape the office on the pretense of a Kit Kat, but really just go soak up some unseasonable spring.
In the meantime here are some great lil apps to make OSX a little bit more yours:
- Visage: Customize your your Boot Panel, Boot Strings, Login Panel, Login Screen Background, Dock Poof, and Dock Transparency. It’s cool really. And easy.
- ASM: Rocks. Gives you back the “Application Switcher Menu”, meaning the Hide This, Hide Others, Show All stuff in the top right corner menu (woo hoo). And will allow you to use a bunch of other OS 9 system goodies that OSX just threw away for no discernable reason. This thing is such a relief that if i weren’t running extremely low on US Dollars, i would most definitely donate to the dude. I swear.
- Sosumi: Replaces those irritating watery NyQuil pills that pass for buttons on OSX. I haven’t actually installed this one yet because of my fear of the command line. I should probably get over that. Then again, maybe i shouldn’t.
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Nil by Mouth is written by Neille Ilel. Neille is a writer, reporter and user interface specialist in Los Angeles. If you think that's a lot, she's also got a host of meandering sidelines including improv comedy, tennis, cooking, drawing and thinking about learning to play the guitar.
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