Archive for February, 2004

DesktopSweeper 1.0b1

Monday, February 23rd, 2004

Philippe Martin released an initial version of his haxie called DesktopSweeper a couple of days ago. DesktopSweeper allows you to toggle whether or not your desktop icons are displayed. To me, this is very useful since I don’t like having a lot of clutter on my desktop, but I still want to have [...]

NSUIElement Caching

Thursday, February 19th, 2004

For awhile now, people have been requesting that I put something in XRG’s interface to allow them to turn off the UI Elements, such as having the XRG icon shown in the dock. There has always been kind of a hack to do this, by adding the following text to the app Contents/Info.plist file:

<key>NSUIElement</key>
<true/>

This [...]

teleport

Wednesday, February 18th, 2004

I came across this application called teleport for MacOS X. Basically, it works as a software KVM switch between two computers. You configure one Mac as the server, and the other as the client, and when you move your mouse to an edge of a screen on one computer, it will appear on [...]

XRG 0.5.0

Thursday, February 5th, 2004

As a lot of you probably noticed, XRG 0.5.0 was released this morning. Version 0.5.0 includes many new features and bug fixes. Some of the new features include contextual menus for each of the graph modules (mentioned in an earlier post), the option to change the graph font, a new highlight border feature [...]