Pair the remote on a Mac

Posted on September 8, 2009 by admin (Royce)

If you have a MacBook or Ibook or any other Apple product that has one of those little white remote control things, you should take a moment to electronically lock the two together.

The reason for doing this is to keep your presentations and Mac under your own control. I’ve heard (in theory of course!) some pranksters carry their own Apple white remote with them into presentations. A few clicks of their own remote will send your Mac’s presentation (or Itunes, or any other application for that matter) into a complete state of chaos.

To lock down your Mac so that it only obeys commands from your Apple remote…

Go to SYSTEM PREFERENCES
then SECURITY
choose GENERAL

From here you do have the option to completely disable any remote control by checking the DISABLE REMOTE CONTROL INFRARED RECEIVER option. However, if you click the PAIR button, the Mac will ask you to hold your Apple white remote a few inches from the computer while pressing the remote’s MENU and NEXT buttons at the same time.

After holding the buttons for a few minutes, a white graphic of the remote will appear on your screen, with two chain links above it. This indicates the paring was successful!

Now only that one remote control will control your mac. Any other remote commands from other remotes will be completely ignored.

If you ever want to un-pair the assigned remote with the computer, just go back to the same preference pane and click on the UNPAIR button. Then the mac will go back to being accessible by any remote.

Google Ads in place

Posted on September 8, 2009 by admin (Royce)

Added two Google ad-links on sidebar. I’m not going to put any ads in the middle of the posts or blog though. Sidebar only!

Buzz Corry

Posted on September 7, 2009 by admin (Royce)

I just opened trunk number one, and this is the first thing that popped out. A Buzz Corry : Color Book.

Buzz Corry coloring book

Wow. Talk about a completely different era. According to Google Book Search, “The classic television series Space Patrol was a stellar success for ABC from 1950 to 1955.”

Needless to say, it’s not actually a possession of my own childhood. It’s a “find” me and my first college roommate (Daaave!) came across when we opened an empty luggage trunk while searching an abandoned, condemned, and possibly haunted mansion’s attic at 2 AM in early 1989.

Yeah. That one’s a long story.

Anyhow, I color corrected most of the pages in Photoshop because they are all a funky shade of very-very-old-paper yellow. I left the first page as-is so you can see the book’s “real” condition. The last page of this book fell off after I scanned it, and overall it’s in really rough shape.

Here’s some links where you can download a full copy. The SAMPLE is just a copy of the yellow front page. The FULL is the entire thing scanned and color corrected in PDF format.

MEDIAFIRE.COM
SAMPLE
FULL

BOX.NET
SAMPLE
FULL

LIVE DRIVE
SAMPLE
FULL

UPDATE : Or just read it online right here!

Project 14

Posted on September 7, 2009 by admin (Royce)

I have 14 Seward trunks.

14. Full. Seward. Trunks.

Seward Trunks

That’s just not right.

These trunks are full of the things I accumulated in the first 21 years of my life. Dr. Seuss books, plastic action figures, 33 LP records, shogun warriors, steel toys, view masters, matchbox cars, transformers, cassette walkmans… and somewhere, in one of those trunks, a stuffed penguin named Opus.

Project 14 is my attempt to sift through it all. Photograph and post everything interesting. Keep the good things. Toss the junk.

And to find that stuffed penguin.