To share the love of the Macheist nanobundle, just click on the link at the top of Macheist.com. It’ll share a little message on your Facebook page about the Macheist nanobundle. If you don’t know what the Macheist nanobundle is, check it out fast before it runs out!

Macheist Nanobundle

I tried using the Signal Patterns Personality Test, and it works, and it’s really cool. Those traits in the images are mine, and they all apply to me very well.

To get to this point, you have to take a (about) 30 question page with questions like:

“You are always like to win and aren’t satisfied by ‘getting along’”

You answer the question based on how much this is like yourself, ranging from “Opposite of Me” to “This is Me”

Try it, and see what you turn up with!

Signal Patterns Personality Test

Macheist is now giving out a free software bundle worth $150! It includes good apps like Twitterific, WriteRoom (which I’m using to type this right now), TinyGrab, and Shovebox. TinyGrab is a dead-simple solution to taking screenshots on mac, instantly uploading to a server. Shovebox allows you to take small notes on what you don’t want to forget later, featuring a beautiful interface and seamless integration with the mac operating system.

There is also an app called Hordes of Orcs which I’ve never heard of. I guess if you like that kind of game you would like this.

Mariner Write, a great premium word processor with minimalistic features, will be free for everyone once 500,000 people have signed up. So go ahead and try it!

Macheist gives most of its proceeds to charity, so you can do this with a good feeling in your mind

Macheist Nanobundle

I was just looking over some of my previous posts about Geektool (which I love) yesterday, and I thought about how there might be another version out. I checked the tynsoe website and saw a new version of Geektool: 3.0 beta!

I’m not on my home computer now, but I’m testing it on my sister’s computer (I’m on vacation).

Here’s some new things I’ve seen:

1) Tighter integration with System Preferences and a beautiful GUI

The creator of Geektool said in his ‘About’ page that he made Geektool 3.0 for noobs (opposite of geeks), so they could experience the robustness of Geektool too. This was certainly fulfilled in this release, with a tight, modern new inteface for your geeklets.

I’ve not seen much new in terms of the actual geeklets, except for one thing:

When you edit a shell script, you may click the little “…” next to the command execution input box to have a great, big text box to write and edit your script. This is really helpful for some complicated scripts I run that contain many different functions.

There’s nothing much different about the actual exectution of scripts, so Geektool 3 will probably be nothing major, just a good release for all those ‘noobs’ out there .

I’m sure we’ve all been the situation when we’ve forgotten a password. No biggie, just press the “Oh! I forgot my password” link below the sign-in box, right? Well, yes, if it’s just a web page. Now, if you’re locked out of you’re mac, that’s a toughie to get out of. Either you bring it to apple or hack your way in. I’m gonna show you how to hack your way in.

I’m using the term “hack” loosely, as I’m just going to detail how to reset your password on your mac; I will show another way after this which involves creating another user account.

Concerning Resetting Password on 10.5 Leopard

If you have been unfortunately locked out of your wonderful new mac running 10.5 Leopard, here’s how to reset your password on it.

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1. Power on or restart your Mac.
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode. [After this you should see black and white letters running down through your screen like you're a hacker]
3. This step is optional, but it’s a good idea because it checks the consistency of the hard disk before moving on. At the prompt, type fsck -fy and press Enter/Return. Wait for the checks to complete before going to the next step.
4. Type mount -uw / and press Enter. [Mounts the startup disk]
5. Type launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.DirectoryServices.plistand press Enter.
6. Type ls /Users and press Enter. This lists all of the usernames on the computer – helpful if you don’t know or remember what these are.
7. Type dscl . -passwd /Users/username password and replace “username” with one of the users displayed in the previous step. Replace “password” with a new password of your choice. Press Enter.
8. Type reboot and press Enter.

“

[Macyourself tutorial]

Concerning Resetting Password on 10.4 Tiger

Be careful to remember that resetting the passwords on these two different operating systems have different instructions, so don’t mix them up. [unless you want to potentially destroy your system]

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1. Power on or restart your Mac.
2. At the chime (or grey screen if your chime is turned off), hold down Command+S on your keyboard to enter single-user mode.
3. Type sh /etc/rc and press Enter/Return.
4. Type passwd username and replace “username” with the short name of the user account for which you’d like to reset the password.
5. Type your desired password and press Enter. It won’t show itself on the screen, so be careful what you type. You will most likely have to enter it again to confirm.
6. Type reboot and press Enter.

[Macyourself tutorial]

“

If you don’t want to mess around with command-line password resetting,

don’t. The ways detailed above are much faster than creating a whole new account and registering a new account. Anyways, you still must use the command line to delete the systems files Mac OS reads during startup, and that could be catastrophic, even resulting in your computer not being able to start up. But, if you want to, just read the article I’ve hyperlinked twice above. [Macyourself tutorial].

If you want all this stuff good and printed so it’s ready in your desk whenever you need it, (ahh)

I’ve created a pdf with this info. It’s located here: [Click Here]

Well, that’s it! Just remember to use your new-found power wisely and not on a computer that’s not your own because that’s… hacking! Thanks for reading and please rate this post!

Okay, there’s finally a new rating system for WordPress blogs! To see the 5-star rating system, click through any of my posts [you can't rate from the front page; kind of inconvenient] and look for the 5 blue stars below each post.

Please help me with my writing by rating my posts!

Thank you!

If you like simple, sleek, and minimalistic, this wallpaper is for you! I found it at deviantart.com, a great site to find unique customizations perfect for your desktop.

I Love Photoshop Wallpack comes with 5 standard-resolution wallpapers

Check out this Wallpaper [My Blog]

As you can see, I also used it for the new header image

So, my family just tried to use the ‘high’-speed internet for our Macbook Pro in this rinky-dink sort of hotel. (My Blog). It didn’t work out well. Google.com took something like 30 seconds to load? I think I lost count. Anyway, it provided non-secure Wifi to use, and an Ethernet port next to the desk. We figured the Wifi would be more convenient, so we were just using that.

My dad had this idea to use the Ethernet cable instead of the Wifi. Went to the front desk, plugged it in, and BOOM! It’s actually mediocre speed! That’s what’s letting me write this post now.

Anyways, the moral of this story is to never use Hotel Wifi, just give up the portability and plug in the Ethernet cable.

The Twitpocalypse is upon us! What the heck is that? Well, each little tweet that people send on Twitter is assigned a unique identifier on Twitter. This is a value in a signed integer, and there just happens to be a limit on the signed integer. It is 2,147,483,64; and when it exceeds this value, the values suddenly becomes negative and some 3rd party Twitter apps not prepared to handle this will become corrupt, crash, and who knows what else. Hence the ‘calypse’ .

Here’s what the 2 billionth, 147 millionth, 483 thousandth, 64th tweet said:

The Tweet must flow. http://bit.ly/Khk7s

http://twitter.com/nk/status/2147483649

Click the link. It’s a cat.

Check the status of the Twitpocalypse here (twitpocalypse.com).

Sorry, people, I know this is my first post in a while. That’s because of the amazing amount of assignments I have been given towards the end of the year. Well, this is the second to last day of school and the first day with no homework! [metaphor] [I know it seems like this is a little dramatic for a sixth-grader, but believe me, my teachers give A TON of homework]

Anyways, I’ll be sure to get back to posting for the summer.

This post will be about my current desktop. I have a mac, so customization is a little restricted, but I personally think it looks pretty cool. I will be outlining the steps to make this desktop, so if you’re interested in being more productive and fast, I would check this post out.

Here’s what it looks like:

What should I go through first? I’ll start from the top:

[i made the opacity for each of the entries about 60% to make them blend into the dark background]

Weather Updates: This one is pretty simple. I already went over it in my famous Geektool article here. To reiterate, here’s what you do:

Download the weather fetcher script here.
[weather]

Here’s my Geektool setup for weather [shell entry]:
~/Scripts/weather -cf 2 94303
This tells the weather script to get the forecast for two days in my area code, 94303.
Change your area code and it should work.
If you don’t change “~/Scripts/weather” to where it actually is, it won’t work, so CHANGE IT!

I used a different script in the picture above. The one I talked about has more features, but if you just want something simple, add this to a new ‘Shell’ entry in Geektool:

curl --silent "http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p=YOURCITYCODE&u=f" | grep -E '(Current Conditions:|F<BR)' | sed -e 's/Current Conditions://' -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/<\/b>//' -e 's/<BR \/>//' -e 's/<description>//' -e 's/<\/description>//'

Quote: I found this inspiring quote from thinkexist.com. To add it, I just used a simple echo command:

echo '"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment"'

Then, I added another one, because it’s easier to format and I wanted it in a different typeface:

echo "~Ralph Waldo Emerson"

Todo.txt: Todo.txt has helped me a lot to get things done quickly. All it is is a simple list that displays tasks you need to do. All you need to do is open TextEdit in Applications and save a file called “todo.txt” wherever you want. You also need to download todo.sh to help access it very quickly(After you unzip it, you’ll only want ‘todo.sh’, nothing else).  All you need is a series of commands to modify your list.

To use todo.sh, just access it on the command line and append it with commands. In English, this command:

~/todo/todo.sh add Get a Haircut!

would add ‘get a haircut!’ to your todo.txt. To remove:

~/todo/todo.sh rm Get a Haircut

I would do that once I got a haircut. To append

~/todo/todo/sh app 5 by Friday!

that would change ‘Get a Haircut’ to ‘Get a Haircut by Friday!’. This is assuming that todo item is number five down on your list, otherwise, just use the correct number.

Those really are the only commands needed to get things done quickly with todo.txt!

To display your todo.txt, just use this command:

cat ~/todo/todo.txt

The Todo Applescript:

I also wrote a simple applescript to quickly do things to your todo.txt, without having to open Terminal and the command line. All you have to do is type in your todo command from the command prompt, so:

add Play Golf

would execute the command

~/todo/todo.sh add Play golf

You can download the script here. Please note this script will only work if your todo.txt is in ~/(home directory)todo/todo.txt

and your todo.sh is in ~/todo/todo.sh/todo.sh [not a typo]

The simple clock: I use SimpleFloatingClock to remind of the time simply and elegantly.

The dock: Check in later for a tutorial for this dock. Sorry!

The wallpaper: Vladstudio offers some amazing wallpapers. The one I’m using is here.

I hope you enjoyed that tour of my desktop. I hope it also benefits you if you try and duplicate it and make your life more productive!