The Office Treadmill Desk
Posted by Rich | Filed under Editor News, Robot News, Technology
Ever since I saw the treadmill desk at Book of Joe, I have wanted to set my office up with a treadmill. In preparation for a big computer parts yard sale at my house, I decided after cleaning out my office that there was more than enough room to incorporate the treadmill. So here it is:
More pics after the jump.
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Computer Sentience
Posted by Rich | Filed under Technology
Computer sentience is so close now. Ten years until the singularity.
FlickrFan and My Mac Desktop
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, How To's, Photos, Technology
One of the things I missed when I moved from Linux to Mac OSX was the ability to display Flickr photo feeds as the background of my monitor desktop. Dave Winer fixed part of the equation for me by setting up FlickrFan which allowed me to grab Flickr feeds and bring them to my computer. Assigning the pictures for use as a screen saver or archiving is trivial but what I really wanted was to have the pictures displayed as my desktop background while I worked. Here is how I did it:
Once you have setup the screen saver you want in the Mac System Preferences you need to create two small scripts. The first script called RunScreenSaver (or whatever you wish) contains this simple code.
#!/bin/bash
/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app
/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &>/dev/null & echo $!
Make sure the /System/…/ScreenSaverEngine path is all one line above. Wordpress wants to break it apart for formatting reasons.
The second script called KillScreenSaver (or whatever you wish) contains this simple code.
#!/bin/bash
killall ScreenSaverEngine
Be sure to make both script files executable by typing this in your terminal.app:
chmod a+x RunScreenSaver
chmod a+x KillScreenSaver
Or you can simply download both scripts.
When you want the background running, run the first script by double clicking it in the finder and when you want to stop the background run the second script by double clicking it in the finder. Of course, you can also run each script from the terminal.app:
./RunScreenSaver
./KillScreenSaver
Update:
Dave Winer over at Scripting News did a quick video of this effect:
iCARS, A Star Trek LCARS Summerboard Theme For The iTouch and iPhone
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I created a Summerboard theme around the Star Trek LCARS interface. This theme is based on the original iPhone theme by Kevin Rohrman (kevin@themonsterjam.com).
The iCARS theme includes a wallpaper you can put in /Library/Wallpaper to set the lock screen. This theme requires that you load and order your applications very specifically. You must read the details after the jump or you will not get this theme to look like anything but a jumbled mess.
The First Screen
Somatic, A Summerboard Theme For The iTouch and iPhone
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I created a Summerboard theme around David Lanham’s free Somatic Icon Set available at the Iconfactory. The Somatic Summerboard Theme can be downloaded and used on your iPod Touch or iPhone. There are 93 application icons in the theme plus 73 extra icons and 5 wallpapers:
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3deebly, A Summerboard Theme For The iTouch and iPhone
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I created a Summerboard theme around the 3D Cartoon Icons Pack found at deviantart. The 3deebly Summerboard Theme can be downloaded and used on your iPod Touch or iPhone. There are 80 application icons in the theme:
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Strek, A Summerboard Theme For The iTouch based on Star Trek
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I created a new theme for Summerboard based on various Star Trek icons I found. The theme works for both the iPhone and the iPod Touch (iTouch). If you want to try it out, unzip it and upload to your /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes on the iPhone or the iTouch.
Star Trek Summerboard Theme for iPod Touch and iPhone
Gartoon, A Summerboard Theme For The iTouch
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I created a Summerboard theme around the Gartoon icons found at art.gnome.org. The Gartoon Summerboard Theme can be downloaded and used on your iPod Touch or iPhone. There are over 80 application icons in the theme:
Time Machine 2, A Summerboard Theme For The iTouch
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I modified the icons for the Summerboard Theme “Time Machine” for the iPod Touch. If you want to try it out, unzip it and upload to your /var/root/Library/SummerBoard/Themes on the iPhone or the iTouch.
Signs In The Water:
The iPhone Security Nightmare Proceeds On Pace
Posted by Rich | Filed under Apple, Technology
I told you it was coming a few weeks ago. It definitely appears that the first of many root level exploits of the iPhone are in the wild. It is so easy to get full administrative access and every script kiddie now has the capability. The security armageddon is not far away:
