How To Create Kindle Optimised Screensavers

Sep 28, 2011 @ 2:20 pm.

This guide will walk you through the basic steps of creating an optimised screensaver for your Kindle.  Aimed at the Kindle 3, the end results should look fine on Kindle DX or Kindle 2.  The walk through uses Photoshop CS4, but any version of Photoshop should suffice.

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Unhide Library Folder in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion

Jul 22, 2011 @ 10:27 am.

In Mac OS X Lion (10.7), Apple has made the user Library folder hidden. Preferences, presets, and other user customisation settings are stored within this Library folder.

There are two ways to access this folder:

Temporary

To keep the folder hidden and to access it sporadically:

  1. In Finder, choose Go > Go To Folder
  2. In the Go To Folder dialog, enter ~/Library
  3. Click Go

Permanent

To unhide the folder permanently:

  1. Open a Terminal session
  2. Enter the following command (replace <username> with your actual username
    3. chflags nohidden /Users/<username>/Library
  3. Quit Terminal

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Degraded Mac OS X performance with Bootcamp partition

Apr 20, 2011 @ 9:42 pm.

If you have a bootcamp partition on your Mac, you may notice degraded performance on Mac OS X.  This could be because spotlight tries to index the bootcamp partition.

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