Dornfest, Rael; Davidson, James Duncan

Mac OS X Panther Hacks

Credits ix Preface xvii GUI 1(57) Enjoy the Animations 1(3) Spice Up Your Desktop 4(3) Use Labels Effectively 7(5) Launchers, or, Dial Space M for Mail 12(10) Wear Multiple Hats, Run Multiple Desktops 22(6) Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts 28(4) Tweak Menu Extras 32(3) Incorporate Services into Your Workflow 35(7) Autocomplete Your Words 42(2) Get Sidetracked 44(3) eMac, Meet eBook 47(2) Build Your Own Konfabulator Widget 49(9) Scripting 58(93) A Hacker's Introduction to AppleScript 58(6) AppleScript the GUI 64(7) Fulfill Wishes with Address Book 71(3) Fetch the Paper, AppleScript Style 74(3) Batch-Convert Screenshots to JPEGs 77(3) Build AppleScript Apps with FaceSpan 80(12) Mac::Glue Your Perl 92(5) Update iChat Status with Mac::Glue 97(5) Hack Your Address Book with Perl 102(4) Manipulate Images on the Command Line 106(3) Script CoreGraphics with Python 109(9) Tap RSS with Shell Scripts 118(6) Add a Dab of GUI to Unix Scripts 124(18) Automatically Dim Your Laptop Screen 142(9) Web, Chat, and Mail 151(82) Hack Safari 151(7) Browse Different 158(8) Avoid the Ads 166(7) Read Syndicated Online Content 173(10) Breathe Life into Your Staid Buddy List 183(4) Better iChat Transcripts 187(7) Gather Ye Buddies While Ye May 194(2) USB Videoconferencing 196(4) Provide Remote Support 200(2) IRC: Chatrooms for Hackers 202(8) Label Your Mail 210(3) Search Your Mail with ZOE 213(8) Encrypt and Sign Your Mail 221(7) Interleave Mail and Pine 228(5) Multimedia 233(55) Build a Household MP3 Server 233(5) Clutter Your Desktop with Music 238(3) Feed Streaming Audio to Your iPod 241(11) Autofeed Text to your iPod 252(6) Automate a Web Photo Gallery with iPhoto and Perl 258(12) Keep a Digital Diary 270(5) Rendezvous Picture Transfer 275(7) Rotate Your Movie from Horizontal to Vertical 282(3) Store Pictures and Movies in Your iPod 285(3) Gadgets and Hardware 288(64) Expand Your Screen Real Estate 288(7) iPod Tips and Tricks 295(2) Build an Emergency iPod Boot Volume 297(3) Pair and iSync with Bluetooth Devices 300(11) Use Your Cellphone as a Bluetooth Modem 311(6) Share Your Mac's Net Connection with a Bluetooth Phone 317(9) Control Your Mac with a PDA 326(7) Listen to Bluetooth 333(6) Print Without Wires 339(4) Zip, Zap, and Sync Your Gizmos 343(5) iOscillate 348(4) Networking and Network Apps 352(50) Share Your Address Book and iCal 352(6) Collaborative Editing with Rendezvous 358(9) See Spike Share His Clipboard 367(4) Detect Wireless Networks 371(4) Secure Your AirPort Network with WPA 375(6) Manage Multiple AirPort Base Stations 381(3) Access Remote Desktops 384(18) Servers 402(32) Apache Behind the Scenes 402(4) Turn on WebDAV 406(4) Turn on PHP 410(1) Advertise Web Sites with Rendezvous 411(3) Set Up a Postfix Mail Server 414(6) Relay Mail with Postfix 420(7) Set Up Secondary Mail Servers 427(2) Create Mail Aliases 429(1) Set Up 1MAP and POP Mail Servers 430(4) Files and Backup 434(53) Synchronize Your Files 434(6) Edit Special Unix Files 440(6) Find and Unerase Misplaced and Deleted Files 446(3) Store and Search Your Records as PDF 449(1) Flex OmniOutliner 450(12) Decide What to Back Up 462(2) Automate Backups with Existing Tools 464(3) Back Up Your Digital Music Collection 467(4) Make a Carbon Copy 471(11) Bluetooth File Exchange and Browsing 482(2) Secure File Sharing with SSH 484(3) System Administration 487(60) Become an Administrator for a Moment 487(3) Understand Your User Account 490(4) Rename a User Account 494(2) Use the Terminal 496(9) Set Shell Environment Variables 505(2) A Security Primer 507(16) Stash Data in the Keychain 523(3) Panther Maintenance 526(7) Use iCal to Schedule Tasks 533(1) Use periodic to Schedule Tasks 534(2) Use cron to Schedule Tasks 536(5) Reinstall Mac OS X 541(4) Bypass the GUI 545(2) Index 547