GMTAZ Musings & Support

Syncing Clockbuilder or Typophone

If you are having trouble synchronizing themes from Clockbuilder or Typophone Clock to your lockscreen, please try the following:

  1. Add my repo to your Cydia sources: http://static.gmtaz.com
  2. Install Lockscreen Sync
  3. Open Clockbuilder or Typophone and sync to lockscreen
  4. Open LSSync and then perform an additional sync (You should only have to do this once)
  5. Respring your device

That’s it. You may only have to do this once. Some users are reporting that after the first time, the app updated the theme without LSSync.

February 15 / 2012
Author Gustavo
Category Apple, How To, iphone
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Labs at GMTAZ.com

I’m going to start posting the stuff I fool around with in my spare time. These posts can be found in labs.gmtaz.com (see link at the top of the page as well).
Right now, I just posted a quick Chrome Experiment using the globe.js experiment code. This experiment is called “Quake” and pulls in earthquake data, updating every minute or so from mangolabs.com.

It works in the latests versions of Chrome and Firefox or any browser that supports WebGL.

May 24 / 2011
Author Gustavo
Category Technology
Comments 2 Comments

Disable the tap highlighting on iPhone and Webkit

Just add this to your css:
* { -webkit-tap-highlight-color:transparent }

This will disable the highlight color (which by default seems to be darker) on the iPhone and other webkit based browsers.

October 22 / 2010
Author Gustavo
Category How To, iphone
Comments 3 Comments

iPhone 4 Retina Display Easter Egg

One hidden benefit to the retina display, that I haven’t seen posted anywhere, is that I can now view the screen using polarized sunglasses at any angle. This was not possible on the 3G or the 3GS. Give it a go, if you have polarized lenses…

I’ll see if I can figure out a way to post images.

June 27 / 2010
Author Gustavo
Category Apple, iphone
Comments 7 Comments

jQuery 1.3 cheat sheet wallpaper

I went ahead and created a cheatsheet wallpaper for jQuery 1.3 using screenshots from http://oscarotero.com/jquery/

EDIT: One person commented about not being able to set up a different wallpaper for each space on OSX. Check out Spacesuit. This looks like a pretty good solution. Let me know if this helps out!

Click on a link below to download:

jQuery 1.3 1900x1200
May 01 / 2009
Author Gustavo
Category Technology, Web, Website
Comments 58 Comments

OSX: Finally, lock your screen

So I was looking around at options to create a key combo to lock the screen on OS X Leopard. I came across several different options and none of them were really want I wanted. Some required running an apple script to start a screen saver, others require the key chain access application or having an icon on you menu bar or dock. All I wanted was a simple key combo to lock the screen. It’s as easy as 1-2-3…4-5-6-7-8.  This is how you do it:

  1. Get Quicksilver if you dont already have it.  So many good things come from this app that it’s worth it if not for this, then for it’s pure awesomeness.
  2. Enable fast user switching (System Preferences>Accounts>Login Options-last check box)
  3. Go into Quicksilver Preferences (default is option+space>command+,) and make sure you have the Extra Scripts and User Accounts Module enabled under plugins.
  4. Open the Quicksilver interface (option+space) and select “Fast Logout”, press ‘Tab’ then ‘right arrow’ to open up the command selections and select ‘Run: run a shell script’ and press enter.  This should bring you to the user login window.
  5. If that worked, go back into Quicksilver Preferences (option+space>command+,) and select ‘Triggers’.
  6. Add a new trigger by pressing the ‘+’ symbol at the bottom. Select ‘Add new hotkey’.  You should now see the default as the last command you picked (Fast Logout and ‘Run’).
  7. Click Save
  8. Now click on the ‘Trigger’ (it should say ‘none’) and select the hot key you wish to use.  I chose to use ‘command+option+L’ as command+L has other functions.

That’s it.  You can now lock your Mac to your heart’s content with a simple keystroke.

February 16 / 2009
Author Gustavo
Category Apple, How To, Technology
Comments 2 Comments
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