One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Monday, 20 December 2004

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Miscellaneous Mac tidbits

A few small nuggets unearthed while working in my Mac lab:

If you fiddle with Darwin or run beta versions of OS X, you'll run into the problem of not knowing whether your PowerBook is responding to the power button. Hold down Caps Lock when you power up or force a power down. That's as close to a power light as the Mac has.

When I use my PowerBook in dark spaces like conference sessions, I find that even the dimmest backlight setting is too bright. Control-Option-Command-8 switches the display to greyscale, then inverts it (in other words, black text on white becomes white text on black). The light output falls by half or more. It looks strange--the Dock icons are a really a trip in negative grayscale--but the entire GUI is perfectly usable. Repeating the hotkey sequence flips back to positive and restores the color.

Farout!

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