Mac image viewer - Sequential

One of my preferred tools for viewing images on the Mac.
Sequential
which I downloaded from here Softpedia

As of this posting they are at version 2.0.1

Allows windowed or full screen (sequential) viewing of images in folder.
Double click on an image and then keep viewing other images found in same folder.

Exif information viewable.

Removing Thumbs.db on OS X

I recently moved lots of pics from my old Windoze box to my iMac, this resulted in lots of Thumbs.db and Picasa.ini files lying around that I didn't need.

Seeking out a bash script that would erase them all I found:

find / -name "Thumbs.db" -exec rm '{}' \;

I moded that to this:
find /Users/Dee/Pictures/ -name "Thumbs.db" -exec echo '{}' \;

1) to save time time I changed the starting point from '/' (root) to my '/Pictures' dir.
2) I changed the 'rm' (remove' command to 'echo' to *see* what files and where that it would be targeting - silly I know but some small piece of mind, and I love watching a busy terminal .. yeah I know, "small minds ..."

Login Window shortcut for OSX Fast User Switching

There is, at time of writing, no shortcut for OSX with Fast User Switching enabled to take you to the Login Window.

As is you have to use the icon in the menu bar.

I found many references to this and the simplest, for me was this:

The code is simple to actually take us to the Login Window (without closing our applications as SHIFT COMMAND Q does


Here's the code we want to run:
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

You could create a work flow to run that command, put that in your dock or make a hotkey for it.

As I use Quicksilver rather than the Dock, it comes with the ability to install triggers.

So now when I hit Control-Option-Command L I go straight to the Login Window.

Lost iTunes Library, Found iPod

Finder doesn't 'find' enough.
Other options are there and here's a simple example of such for OS X users

clipped from rixstep.com Countless megabytes of information on iPods and iTunes and the woes caused by the inability to copy songs out of the iPod - and yet it's only: cp -R /Volumes/<name>/iPod_Control ~ Michael saw an article recently in a hardcopy Mac magazine. Someone had written in telling how a purchase of Cocktail had enabled all files to be visible in Finder. The mag's own editor calmly pointed out that no purchase, no additional software, was ever necessary. All one had to do was: ls -a

Wilderness Quotes

Love the bush, love the thinking.. at least of some.

clipped from wilderdom.com I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. - Henry David Thoreau A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. - Greek Proverb The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives. - Chinese Proverb Only after the last tree has been cut down Only after the last river has been poisoned Only after the last fish has been caught Only then you will find out that money cannot be eaten - Cree Indian Prophecy Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. - Mohandas Gandhi

Chief Seattle's Thoughts

Indigenous people have a wisdom, a way, that would seem to be the very thing that white fellas are so often yearning for.
Keep It Simple Stupid!

clipped from www.kyphilom.com The white man's dead forget the country of their birth when they go to walk among the stars. Our dead never forget this beautiful earth, for it is the mother of the red man. We are part of the earth and it is part of us. The perfumed flowers are our sisters; the deer, the horse, the great eagle, these are our brothers. The rocky crests, the juices in the meadows, the body heat of the pony, and man --- all belong to the same family. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, man would die from a great loneliness of the spirit. For whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected. I am a savage and do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairie, left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be made more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive.

Important Groups of Wildlife Habitat Plants - Australia

The goal being to plant plants which provide food, shelter and nest sites for a range of nectar, fruit, seed, leaf and insect (and other prey) eating animals, eg. birds, mammals, lizards, frogs and insects.

Top habitat plant groups which provide many resources are:
Eucalyptus, Angophora, Melaleuca, Acacia, Banksia, Leptospermum and Kunzea.

Shelter plants -
many Acacia (wattles), Leptospermum (tea-trees), Melaleuca (paperbarks), Bursaria (blackthorn), Hakea, Ceratopetalum (Christmas bush), Kunzea, Clematis, Pandorea (wonga-wonga vine), Rubus (native raspberry) and any dense and/or spikey planting.

Insect-pollinated plants -
Acacia (wattles), native peas (eg. Dillwynia, Hardenbergia, Kennedia), Leptospermum (tea-trees), native daisies (eg. Olearia) as well as Hibbertia, Clematis, Pomaderris.

Nectar plants -
Banksia, Grevillea, Hakea, Correa, Lambertia (mountain devil), Callistemon (bottlebrush), Eucalyptus, Angophora, Melaleuca, Xanthorrhoea (grasstrees) and others with big showy flowerheads, Epacris.

Seed plants -
Eucalyptus, Angophora, Acacia (wattles), Casuarina and Allocasuarina (she-oaks), Glochidion (cheese tree), Lomandra, native grasses (eg. Themeda, Danthonia), rushes (Juncus) and sedges (Gahnia).

Fruit plants -
Acmena, Syzygium (lillypillies), Ficus (figs), Alphitonia, Trema, Cissus (native grape), Persoonia (geebugs), Dianella (native lily), Breynia, Stephania, saltbushes and many rainforest or wet forest species.

Native bee plants -
Persoonia (geebungs), native peas (eg. Hovea, Pultenaea), native daisies (eg. Helichrysum), heath plants (eg. Epacris, Leucopogon), Goodenia, Tristaniopsis (water gum), Leptospermum.

Native butterfly plants -
native peas, native daisies, native grasses (eg. Poa), sedges and rushes (eg. Carex, Juncus), Lomandra, Dianella, Bursaria (blackthorn), Macrozamia (burrawang), Dodonaea, Zieria, Correa, Indigofera, Cupaniopsis (tuckeroo), Melaleuca and mistletoes.

Hope I spelt them all correctly, let me know if any of the links are dead!

Stream your cable wherever u are!

Slingbox

Instant Messanger software

I like to use Trillian for access to ALL my favourite IM networks, IRC, Yahoo Messenger, MSN, AIM etc

full screen layout/view of pics n videos on various sites

Wish you could get a different layout when scanning images returned by a Google (image) search?

Cooliris

is just the ticket.