A cool AppleScript to resize your wallpaper

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 Posted in mac os x | Comments

I'm a total wallpaper whore. Seriously. I have nearly 1GB of wallpapers (766MB) and I need them to work with my MacBook completely. In order to scale a mass amount of wallpapers at a time, I was trying all sorts ...

An AppleScript to turn the brightness of your laptop display on/off

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in blog, info, mac os x | Comments

Yesterday at work, Eric was asking me if I knew of a way to immediately make the screen of his MacBook go straight to off (0 brightness). The only way I could think of doing such a thing was just ...

A near mishap involving my suP3r_5eCuRe password

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008 Posted in blog, mac os x, random, rant | Comments

Given I am a web geek, I know the importance having a good password when it comes to sites like PayPal, eBay, Facebook, etc. all for the sake of not wanting my shit to get stolen, but every now and ...

Mike Rapin’s Guide to Web Searching via Quicksilver

Thursday, February 7th, 2008 Posted in info, mac os x | Comments

So, there I was in my chemistry lecture, too lazy to reach into my backpack on the floor and pull out my calculator to solve a simple problem written on the board by my professor (who is a bad ass, ...

Liveblog: 1.1.3 firmware for the iPod Touch

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008 Posted in liveblog, mac os x | Comments

So here we have it guys, my restore of my hacked iPod and and trying out the normal 1.1.3. Lets see how this works... (Mind you I paid for the extra awesome apps: Mail, Stocks, etc.) 3:48PM - Seeing that I ...

Back to Firefox

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008 Posted in mac os x, random | Comments

So, as I said a while ago, I had switched over to Camino until Firefox 3 came out... I lied. I managed to stick with Camino 100% for about 2 days before I started using Safari and Firefox. Why? Because I ...

3 advantages and disadvantages of Camino

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in mac os x, random | Comments

As of yesterday (12/12/07) I have decided to switch over to Camino (I'm writing from it right now!) from the ever-so-wonderful-but-not-so-Mac-or-Leopard-ready Mozilla Firefox. Mind you, I have only been using Camino for a little over a day, but I used ...

syslogd got you down? Try this fix

Thursday, December 13th, 2007 Posted in mac os x | Comments

So, I was having a serious issue this morning with my CPU on my MacBook running at around 120% for the first hour of work (actually this was happening last night while I was away from my computer too) and ...

Leopard; likes and dislikes

Sunday, October 28th, 2007 Posted in mac os x | Comments

So, as I go along this week I'm going to update this post with my likes and dislikes of Leopard. Here's my initial list: Likes: 1. The look of the default Mac Installer program 2. Stacks 3. The amazingly smartness of Spaces 4. Being able ...

Leopard is upon us

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in liveblog, mac os x | Comments

Ladies and Gents! It has begun. Leopard, Apple's newest installment of Mac OS X (10.5) is here and I, Mike Rapin (aka Gambit), am going to install... today. I'll be 'live blogging' this experience as I go along, so keep watching for ...