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Filed under: Software, Hacks, How-tos, Tips and tricks, Odds and ends, Leopard

Triangles back on the Leopard Dock

by Mike Schramm (RSS feed) on Oct 30th, 2007


Ever since we first saw the new Dock with its reflective surfaces and little glowing lights under open apps, people have gotten nostalgic for the old Tiger Dock and its less flashy ways. First we showed you how to de-gloss the new Dock, and now Mike at Silver Mac has cooked up a way to get those black triangles back.

Turns out it's not super hard to do-- inside the Dock app folder, there's just three .png files that serve as "Dock indicators," so all you have to do is change those (definitely back up what's there, however), and you should be in business. The Dock now scales those indicators based on size, so there's three files to replace-- at your own risk, natch-- and you're all set.

Thanks, Mike!

Tags: app, dock, folder, hacks, indicators, leopard, png, replace, triangles

Filed under: iPhone

iPhone screenshot utility

by Erica Sadun (RSS feed) on Aug 3rd, 2007

Earlier today, I learned about this iPhone screen shot snippet meant to be used inside an application. It produces PDF results. After playing with the code and realizing it probably couldn't be expanded to a general purpose screenshot utility, I decided to write one from scratch by taking advantage of UIApplication's _dumpScreenContents: protocol.

My screenshot utility, which you can download here runs from the command line and produces a PNG output of your screen. I look forward to using this tool. It's certainly going to be a lot easier than trying to light the iPhone correctly and avoid reflections while snapping pictures with a digital camera.

Update: My daughter figured out that if you set the iPhone to never sleep and put it into camera mode, you can script it to take screen shots every minute (or five minutes or however long) to take time lapse series of images. We are so going to try this out.

Update 2: Tried it out. Only gets about 4 pictures per minute when in a loop so video is a no-go.

Tags: iPhone, PDF, PNG, screenshot

Filed under: iLife, Software, Internet Tools

iWeb Optimizer - easily shrink oversized images

by David Chartier (RSS feed) on Apr 22nd, 2006

iWeb Optimizer is a simple Automator app that allows you to easily compress PNG images inside your iWeb site into JPG files, but it maintains the same file name so it doesn't break any of your links or images. Simply drag and drop the site folder that iWeb creates (be it in your iDisk or an exported directory you specified) onto iWeb Optimizer and let it work its magic. The handy little utility will also parse all your subdirectories, making sure no PNG is safe from a little JPG compression.

iWeb Optimizer is free and available from Automator World.

Tags: Automator, compress, image, images, iWeb, JPG, Optimizer, optimizing, PNG, shave, shrink, space

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