Posts Tagged ‘Leopard’

Apple Remote Desktop Icon for OS X Leopard

Sunday, September 7th, 2008

ARD Icon updated for Leopard

For a few months now, I’ve been wondering when Cupertino is going to put out a new version of Apple Remote Dekstop (ARD).  Partly because I want new features, mostly because I’m tired of looking at the Aqua Blue desktop background on the application’s icon.

I was bored tonight and decided to take care of that last part myself.  I present to you, my second ever OS X icon, ARD Leopard!  I took the binoculars from the current ARD icon and combined them with Leopard’s desktop sidebar icon.  The imperfections of my horrible Photoshop skills are barely noticeable and I think it looks pretty good.  Feel free to download, and if you like and use it, please leave a comment.

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Use Time Machine with Applications

Sunday, June 8th, 2008

Here’s a little discussed feature of Time Machine in OS X Leopard.  It works directly with some applications!

If you open Mail.app for example, and launch Time Machine from its menubar item you can directly access and recover individual email messages.  The alternative would be using Time Machine to recover your entire ~/Library/Mail folder, which isn’t very practical.  I’ve tested several other applications and so far I’ve found that this also works for Address Book to recover contacts and groups, and iPhoto to recover photos and albums.

Time Machine with Mail.app

One caveat I’ve found is that you need to use the menubar item to launch Time Machine, otherwise a Finder window opens and it doesn’t activate properly.  Other than that, this seems to be an excellent use of Time Machine!  Please feel free to leave a comment if you discover any more applications this works with.

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