Inline USB Adapter for iPod Shuffle 3rd-Gen: “Shu-Lip”

I’d like to see it with the Shuffle attached, but the company’s site offers no example “in use” product photo.

Pilfered from said company's site

[UPDATE] The company has since put up an ‘in-use’ photo, and it’s so absurd I felt I had to share it here.

When a shuffle kisses a mac…

If it came with a USB cap for when the Shuffle is not being used, which the Dexim site makes no mention of, the 3rd-generation Shuffle could have a stick shape. I’m a big fan of the 1st-gen Shuffle. The new one looks perhaps a little too small to feel good held in the hand, which may partly explain Apple’s decision to remove almost every incentive for holding it. The familiar controller from the 1st and second-gen models was shared to the Apple Remote, which doesn’t seem to be in any danger of being replaced, even by those using Apple’s Remote.app for iPhone and iPod Touch.

I learned from MacWorld that it is intended to be sold for something close to $10, which is refreshing to hear, since so many times when perusing iPod accessories nothing seems to be cheaper than $29.99.

Icon Sources for OS X and Missing ResExcellence

Change your icons following Apple’s instructions.

Find icons for OS X at these sites:

http://browse.deviantart.com/?catpath=customization/icons/os/mac/&order=9&alltime=yes
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_screensavers/
http://iconfactory.com/freeware/icon
http://www.pixelgirlpresents.com/icons.php
http://www.icons.cx/icons/
http://www.pixelpressicons.com/

The Mac creative community is splintered, divided between all of these sites, and more like InterfaceLIFT, MacThemes, etc.

No thanks to the new owners of ResExcellence for letting it rot. A community-run forum would be better than this years-old blog promising a relaunch and redesign: http://www.resexcellence.com/
(turns out the new owner is Phillip Ryu, who complained about the previous owner on his blog, (http://phillryu.com/2006/08/03/good-riddance-bryan-lund/) saying things like “They [Resex fans] deserve to feel cheated if they can see with their very eyes their beloved community going down the chutes, with you at the helm.” On the other hand, if the site relaunches with all the old content, I will be happy to have been wrong – I just think it’s very unlikely.

Welcome to the New Mac Skill / Macs Kill

I said goodbye for Drupal today in favour of WordPress, and the move has been long considered for a number of reasons. Lately it seems as though I should migrate if only just for the simple-to-configure Akismet plugin that kills spam dead.

I’m using the DevArt theme until I have time to mod it.

Megazoomer – Make Any OS X App Fullscreen

Megazoomer makes windows full-screen on OS X. Just press Command-Return, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor, covering the Dock and menu bar. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again.

Like many other OS X modifications, Megazoomer requires SIMBL, a free InputManager available here.

Megazoomer is a free download. Get it here.

OS X Keylogging Software

A “keylogger” (or “keystroke recorder”) is an application that monitors your keystrokes, usually recording every key press to a file for later perusal. Some versions will go the extra mile and email the log file to a given address.

I use logKext as a keylogger on my own machines. It’s very handy to have a record of what I’ve typed, and since it makes the log file encrypted, I’m not too worried about someone else getting access to it. The few passwords that I actually have to type (thanks to Keychain) show up in it, but without the password to defeat the Blowfish encryption, the file is not viewable to prying eyes.

It’s great to be able to record all my keystrokes in case of a web application crash (the main reason I use it) or other times when I would have lost what I was writing.

Other keyloggers I’ve found include BackTrack(US$15), ,

Programs like KeystrokeRecorder (US$29), Spector (US$99), eWatch (US$18) and MonitorerX Pro (US$29.95) offer more advanced features such as the ability to capture screenshots as well as keystrokes, and to email the results to a specified address.

To use it, start up the installer and then open the terminal. (/Applications/Terminal).

Run the command


sudo logkextclient

enter your administrative password and then enter the default password marked in the readme. By default Blowfish encryption is used. There is an uninstaller for LogKext put in the root directory of your HD, ( / ) and can be uninstalled even if you’ve forgotten the password for logkext.

changing the password is similar to declaring and defining values in programming using the “set” prefix.

example: changing logKext password


set Password=NewPassword

you can see all variables you can change by typing list.

open will open the log in a text editor, i prefer simply cat’ing the log using “print”.