Link: 10.5: Create high-quality audio books
Using the new ultra-realistic Alex voice in Leopard, you can create an audio book out of any text. Open Automator and add the following steps: Text: Get Contents of TextEdit Document
Text: Text to Audio File (using Alex…
Link: 1800nametape.com
These guys are bound to be useful at some point!
Link: Keystrokes of Genius
Mail Act-On looks like interesting software. I’m looking at ways to make my email more manageable, and this might be a help. Switching away from Thunderbird to Leopard’s Mail.app has been a no-brainer for the most part, but there are some bits and pieces I miss, like better tagging than Mail seems to provide.
Link: Mail.app GTD Perfection - Koru Productions ExpressionEngine Development
Via daring fireball… seems worth a look. Mail.app in Leopard is actually good enough to use, so I might as well spend some time making it work well.
Link: Extreme energy makeover: Home office edition
Looks to be worth a read…
Link: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Install a number of bundled screen savers
Whole bunches ‘a screensavers. Sounds like a bunch of wasted time, coming right up. :)
Link: 10.5: Get locate to index the Time Machine drive
I’m a big fan of locate, even in this day and age of Spotlight; it’s a super-fast way to find things in Terminal (with the downside that it needs updates to remain current, as it’s a static index of file names). By default in…
Link: 10.5: Use Quick Look from the command line
For all you Leopard users out there, here’s a handy tip on how to use Quick Look from the command line.
Leopard ships with a command called qlmanage. The -p option shows a preview of the file passed to the command. In the ter…
Link: TUAW Tutorial: Custom Stack Drawer icons
Filed under: Features, How-tos, Mods
Many folks commented on our recent post about adding those gorgeous drawer icons to your Stacks. As great as the originals are, however, a lot of you also wanted to know how to customize them. Fortunately, the original author was kind enough to make the blank drawer PNG available, so in this little tutorial I’ll show you how to make your own customized drawer icons using nothing more than Preview. Obviously you can get much…