Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

Categories: Mac OS X · Cocoa Programming · General · All Categories

Fri, 19 Dec 2003

The slickest OSX animation

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Try this on Panther. What a cool animation!

  1. Open System Preferences.
  2. Choose "Security."
  3. Click "Turn on FileVault..." (Don't worry, we won't actually turn it on.)
  4. Authenticate yourself as an administrator, if needed.
  5. A sheet will slide down saying "FileVault requires that you type your password." Enter your account's password and hit "OK"

Did you catch it? Pretty slick transition to the confirmation dialog, eh? (Probably no simple way to put that into other applications, is there? Grrrr....) At this point, you probably want to hit Cancel unless you really do want to use FileVault.

What's a good source to keep up with quality new Mac OS X software?

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I miss ChezMark. This site used to feature a reasonably digestible list of interesting new Mac software each week or two. But it hasn't been updated for months now.

I want to keep up with the latest cool new software on Mac OS X, but the VersionTracker listings are just too darn big nowadays. I liked ChezMark because he filtered out a lot of the junk and pointed out interesting new titles.

What do you use to keep informed of new applications?