Did you know that you can zoom  in or out while you are viewing a image or PDF using Quick Look?

To zoom in on an image press and hold the alt key while clicking anywhere in the image. You can now move the image around in the Quick Look window.

To zoom out, you just have to press and hold the alt an the shift key while clicking anywhere in the image you are previewing.

To zoom in on a PDF, press command, shift and “+” (plus character). To zoom back out again press command and “-” (minus character).

These zooming functions are really useful when you are viewing large images or if you have a small screen.

Gartoon was removed from the App Store at request of UCLICK.

Presenting my first iPhone App : ThunderTime!

ThunderTime is an easy-to-use distant calculator for lightning strikes. If you want to read more about ThunderTime, visit the ThunderTime app page.

I hope it will soon be available on the the App Store (submitted on the 5th of august for review).

Edit : ThunderTime is now available on the App Store.

When the latest version of Pixelmator was released, the pixelmator team also started an online pixelmator tutorial library (called pixelmator learn).

On this pixelmator learn page you can find great tutorials. 

I recently followed the Colorful Bokeh effect tutorial.

My result :

I will start posting again soon.

If you ever lose your computer and you have to charge your ipod, you can now use an onion.

Watch the video.

In this tutorial I will show you how to print a document in grayscale. 

Step 1 :

Select Print in the file menu.

Step 2 :

Click the popupbutton  and select Quality and Media.

(in Mac os x tiger select Colorsync and after that select Gray Tone)

Step 3 :

Check the Grayscale Printing checkbox. 

Step 4 :

Press the Print button.

Is the Macbook Air to expensive for you?

You can now print your own macbook air (paper) (link to original post).

Watch the macbook paper ad

02/02/2008 : This macbook paper works great, look at this video.

iChat is a great chat application but it you can’t add MSN contacts, but there’s a trick to do this via Jabber.

Since Mac os x Tiger iChat has Jabber support which indirectly supports other messaging protocols like MSN, ICQ, AIM and IRC.

What is Jabber?

Jabber is an open alternative to consumer IM services. Unlike these commercial services, Jabber is a decentralized network. It works similar to email servers in which anyone can download the Jabber server application and run it in their server to offer Jabber. Because of this, there is no global username, there is unique usernames on each server thus you can have multiple jabber accounts on different servers. The username is in the form of an email address. So, if I get a jabber account at jabberserverx.com then my jabber username would be myusername@jabberserverx.com. Each Jabber server can be configured differently to offer support for MSN, ICQ, AIM, IRC, Yahoo, Email Gateway and even File Transfer. You can find a grid of the Jabber servers and its supported protocols here. Why should you care about this? You should care because it’s open, free and it’s seems to be the only way to bring MSN Messenger into iChat.

Step 1 : make a MSN account

If you don’t have an MSN , you need to create one.

Step 2 : Get a Jabber Client App

Since iChat has only basic support for Jabber, you need a Jabber Client Application to create a Jabber account. You can use Psi, one of many Jabber Client Applications.

Go to PSI’s website http://psi-im.org/ and select the Mac OS version.

Step 3 : Create a Jabber Account

Enter jabber.freenet.de as your Jabber server.

Edit : use http://jabber.belnet.be/instead of jabber.freenet.de.

jabber.freenet.de. doesn’t appear to be working anymore.

Enter your desired account info. Notice how it looks just like if it was email address for that server. If the username is taken, it will let you know. Click on Register to continue.

Upon success, click OK.

Use Control + Click to get the contextual menu from the server’s name and make your status Online.

Step 4 : Register your IM Service with your Jabber server

Use Control + Click to get the contextual menu from the server’s name and select Service Discovery.

From the Service Directory window, Use Control + Click to get the contextual menu from the desired Service and select Register.

Enter your IM service login info. In this case, you can enter your MSN Messenger login info.

Once completed. Quit Psi and Launch Address Book.

Step 5 : Set up iChat for Jabber

From iChat, select the iChat Preferences. From the Accounts Panel, click add to Add a new Account.

Enter your Jabber account info.

Once the account is created. Select Jabber from the Window pulldown menu and make your Jabber status Available from the Jabber Buddy List.

From the Jabber Buddy List, Add a new buddy by clicking add button. It should find the Buddy we added earlier in the Address Book.

Search for your friend by typing their name on the search field then click on Select Buddy.

Done. You should now be able to chat with people on MSN Messenger right from iChat.

original post : http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/

A merry Christmas and a happy New Year!!!

Here is the present from Robin Lefevere : iSearch skins version 2 (with 51 skins!!)

Download version 2 iSearch skins

Apple has posted a special Christmas flavored Get A Mac ad!!!  

More wallpapers for all the Apple-Christmas fans. 

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And another funny mac wallpaper. 

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(Don’t forget the macupdate promo, you only have 1 day and 12 hours left to buy 9 great apps at a very low price.)     

18 December Update: I re-uploaded the wallpapers and you can still buy the macupdate bundle (only 2 days left).

Apple has officially announced that Leopard will be delivered on October 26 at 6:00 p.m. in its retail stores and has started taking pre-orders at its online store.Leopard site

Here are 4 cool wallpapers for your mac :

2 wallpapers for all the Apple-Halloween fans

1 wallpaper for all the mac os x Leopard fans

and 1 wallpaper for all the iPhone fans

Another cool simpsons feature : Simpsonizeme 

Here’s Bill Gates.
 

And here’s Bill Gates Simpson!!