fperkins.com – Frank Perkins

When we had our kitchen redone, we added a desk to organize bills and to have a family computer. We wanted to have access to the internet in a convenient location without having to go into the office or turning on a laptop. [Click on images for bigger image]

Intel iMac running MacGourmet for recipes, CallerId 5.2GHZ cordless phone, Sony ...

1. Go to your /Library/LaunchDaemons dir 2. type: sudo pico com.fperkins.isightcapture 3. Put this in the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN"
"http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
<key>Label</key>
<string>com.fperkins.isightcapture</string>
<key>OnDemand</key>
<true/>
<key>ProgramArguments</key>
<array>
<string>/Users/Frank/Scripts/screenCapture.sh</string>
</array>
<key>StartInterval</key>
<integer>60</integer>
</dict>
</plist><

4. Load your job by typing: launchctl load com.fperkins.isightcapture Of course, change the name of the file to something that makes sense to you and also change the ProgramArguments to match the script you use. For this script, ...

Sick of pdfs downloading to your desktop? This isn't very intuitive, but if you want to make PDFS download to a specific folder when using Firefox, you must change your Safari preferences. Open up Safari, Click on Safari, Preferences, Click on General and change the path of "Save downloaded files to". I created a folder on my desktop called "download" and changed the path to there.