Switch Terminal colors per user

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Mix ANSI colors, screen and encodings in
Terminal

Mix ANSI colors, screen and encodings in
Terminal 08/27/2004 01:38 PM
Terminal.app is great program, I really like it, but it has some issues. The first issue are the ANSI colors -- blue and red are to dark for me, and white is too bright. The best way to fix it is to install the great plug-i...

10.3: Switch Terminal window focus with
mouse movement

10.3: Switch Terminal window focus with
mouse movement 10/31/2003 10:36 AM
A feature that I've long waited for -- window focus that follows the mouse between terminal windows -- has finally been added (in a hidden manner) to the 10.3 Terminal application. From the Terminal, type: defaults write co...

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal

10.3: Use fast user switching from the
Terminal 11/07/2003 11:03 AM
For those who love Panther's Fast User Switching but don't like the menulet in the upper-right corner, here's a shell script to do it. #!/bin/sh if [[ -z $1 ]]; then # robg note: Please enter the next two lines as on...

Fast User Switch from AppleScript

Fast User Switch from AppleScript 11/10/2003 11:38 PM
Here's an AppleScript to switch users, inspired by this item at MacOSXHints.com.

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience

Google's switch to answers.com was
driven by user experience 03/14/2005 04:25 PM

Last week, I wondered aloud whether Google's switch from dictionary.com to answers.com for their "definition" links was driven by concern for their users or was just a business deal:

The cynic in me feels like money had to have changed hands in order for this to have happened (maybe Google is an investor in GuruNet, maybe GuruNet paid for that placement), but the optimist in me says that Google is still a weird little company where the members of project teams can stumble across a better resource that will make their users happier and more productive and implement it on the live site quickly, even if the company that provides that resource could be considered a competitor.

Marissa Meyer, Product Manager for Google, was kind enough to respond to my query about it:

This decision was driven off of concern for our user experience. We are not paying answers.com for this service nor are they paying us. They were willing to work with us and design a website that we felt represented an improvement for our users over what was offered on dictionary.com (no pop-ups, dense information presentation).

That a $50 billion American company is so focused on the experience presented to its users, well, it's pretty impressive.

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect

10.3: How to restore the fast user
switch cube effect 02/19/2004 11:38 AM
I couldn't imagine how it would be deactivated, but I found out: if you and the user you're switching to have different screen resolutions, depths or refresh rates, your fast user switching transition will be like a resolutio...

A script to quit the Terminal from the
Terminal

A script to quit the Terminal from the
Terminal 05/04/2004 12:25 PM
One thing I hate is when you type exit in a Terminal window it closes the window but leaves Terminal.app still running. I wrote this simple little script to solve that. Name it quit, chmod 755 it, and stick it somewhere in ...

Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity

Man Happier About Switch To Mac Than
Switch To Christianity 06/15/2004 10:01 AM

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes

Revenge of the User: Lessons from
Creator/User Battles ETCON talk notes 02/11/2004 04:31 PM
Here're my running notes from danah boyd's Re venge of the User: Lessons from Creator/User Battles at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego.

The response is an attempt to "configure the users" -- constrain behavior to acceptable behavior with messaaging, kicking people off, etc.

This won't work: you can't tell a hacker not to hack. These kids are social hackers. You can stop some bad behavior, but you chase off your best users, too.

Dating doesn't happen because you're in a dating context. Dating arises out of real contexts.

Taking away fakesters didn't make Frienster more real. Friendster is unreal because people never remove their friends, even if they never see them (the exception is when you break up, ironic, because ex-lovers are strong ties!).

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HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer

HotFix Watch: Programs that are
advertised to a user run when another
user logs on to an SMS 2.0 client
computer 08/30/2004 05:24 PM

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable

How to deal with packages where user
specific data configuration has to be
user portable 09/11/2004 11:26 PM

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user"

"Lance Arthur slightly loses it over
BitTorrent - which I will confess does
not have the greatest user experience
for a naive user" 08/14/2004 09:34 AM

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web

Review - The Elements of User
Experience: User-Centered Design for the
Web 12/08/2002 10:04 PM
WebmasterBase Dec 8 2002 8:41PM ET

Mad About Colors

Mad About Colors 01/07/2004 04:34 PM

Marc's post about Behr Paint's wonderful Lazlo-based color picker application reminded me that I needed a color picker myself so I went shopping for one this afternoon.

I have a healthy respect for the power of colors but my color-sense is one-directional: I can go from colors to judgement but not the other way.  That is, I can't say “I want some nice professional set of colors for these set of web pages” and then come up with one.  Thankfully, there are programs to help me.  Most of them are appropriately priced pathetic sharewares, but I found a couple that looked good: ColorImpact 2 and Color Wheel Pro 2.

After trying both, I found Color Wheel Pro 2 to be the better of the two.  Lucky for me, it even costs less than the other one.  Nice.

Update:

Found another nice website that explains colors in a pleasant way: handprint.

7 Colors 1.2.1

7 Colors 1.2.1 12/15/2003 04:28 PM
Occupy the larger part of the board before your Mac does.

More on Colors

More on Colors 10/28/2003 11:08 PM

More on Colors

Jason has more on colors (I mentioned the matched color picker recently).  Nice stuff.

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching

10.3: Kill another user logged in under
Fast User Switching 12/02/2003 12:38 AM
Fast User Switching has been a popular Panther feature in my lab where several students share one computer. However, ocassionally a user forgets to log out, and I (logged in as Administrator) have not figured out how to log t...

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname

SMS Query: Match Computer with User and
the User Fullname 05/15/2004 08:42 AM

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account

Modify The User Description Attribute
For An Ad User Account 08/17/2004 09:19 PM

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites

Back to the User: Creating User-Focused
Websites 10/17/2002 08:03 AM

Nails of many colors

Nails of many colors 11/12/2003 01:06 PM
Not sure what to make of this, but a Spanish researcher has invented press-on nails that can change color to match your outfit. Read...

"Prophetable colors"

"Prophetable colors" 07/18/2004 03:10 PM

New Logo and colors

New Logo and colors 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
I've updated the color scheme, and added a logo.. I know the logo sucks :) Don't tell me, make a...

The miracle of seeing colors

The miracle of seeing colors 05/22/2004 06:32 PM
McMinnville News-Register,OR-4 hours ago ... I make no pretense at being an expert on this subject, so I turned to Google, the source of information about everything, a miracle in itself. ...

Feel the colors....

Feel the colors.... 12/02/2003 01:19 AM
I dreamt last night I could feel colors red was warm and sometimes burning while purple was something that tickled...

Colors of the Past

Colors of the Past 12/27/2004 08:00 PM
Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii took three b&w photos of his subjects using red, green, and blue filters. Now, they've been digitally composited, and we have stunning , authentic color photographs of Russia in the early 1900's.

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend

Power User: Google is a user’s best
friend 08/05/2002 10:45 PM
Every Web user should know how to exploit the features of the powerful Google.com search engine. Besides the news.google.com beta test site I've mentioned before, it also features a free but invaluable Google toolbar that you can download from google.com. It appears as a little search window in every browser session.

"let show some of his true colors"

"let show some of his true colors" 07/18/2004 08:54 AM

Creating complementary colors?

Creating complementary colors? 05/25/2004 11:52 AM
Another one for the bookmarks. This time it's the free, Flash-based QuickColor. Three sliders produce six boxes of colors that complement each other nicely. Accepts RGB input as well and always displays the #Hex value. I'm goin' there often. A thought: It might be nice if pop-up color wheels, palettes, etc. would know the context in which they were to be applied and start ...

Apple Shows Some Mean Colors

Apple Shows Some Mean Colors 07/29/2004 11:26 AM

CNN: Apple: RealNetworks hacked iPod. Apple Computer accused RealNetworks Thursday of adopting the tactics of a hacker and breaking into the technology behind its popular music player iPod device.

So Apple is happy to let you play your music only in the way it permits, if you're going to use its devices. The company says it'll rewrite its software to thwart Real's customer-friendly hack -- and I use that word in the benevolent sense -- that lets people use what they've bought with just a bit more freedom than Apple wishes to grant. Threats to use copyright law against Real are exactly what you'd expect, unfortunately. Apple wants control over online music, and this is just part of the game. What we customers want is cross-platform compatibility: standards. What the companies want is lock-in. They may win, but they're only locking me out -- because I won't play by those rules. Which means I've bought my last iTunes Music Store song until Apple starts paying more attention to what its customers want.

Charts! Graphs! The colors!

Charts! Graphs! The colors! 09/10/2004 05:03 PM

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Four Years Ago?

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete?

Are Web Safe Colors Obsolete? 07/03/2004 07:16 AM
"...He poked a finger into my chest and insisted it's absolutely essential to use web safe colors in graphics."

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors

Olympus m:robe 100 in Two New Colors 04/14/2005 10:03 AM

Olympus is offering two new colors of their m:robe MR-100 MP3 player—sort of. The front of the device is still the Knight-Rider-like red-on-black (of which, I must say, I am a fan). The back of the current models is white, but the new models will be available with backs in light pink and light blue. It's like those videos I used to stare at when I was a kid, where the cover girl was a studious bookworm by day but a crime-fighting whore at night. I may be getting some of the plot-points confused.

No idea if we'll get these models in America. I guess it depends on how well the MR-100 is selling, which is hard to augur considering Olympus misguidedly put all their marketting muscle into the MR-500.

2 new colours for the m:robe MR-100 [AkihabaraNews]

Tweak Your Monitor for Accurate Colors

Tweak Your Monitor for Accurate Colors 01/16/2004 11:32 AM
Q. What is the correct way to calibrate my monitor?

10.3: Change the default label colors

10.3: Change the default label colors 11/17/2003 11:39 AM
I did not try this or create the following; I'm posting it from another website for everyone's benefit.First you'll need Phostoshop and Resorcerer. The file is located in System -> Library -> CoreServices -> Finder -> Resourc...

Windows Tip: Change Title Bar Colors

Windows Tip: Change Title Bar Colors 09/12/2004 10:22 AM
G4 Tech TV Sep 12 2004 2:20PM GMT

SportWrap Armbands for iPod come in
colors

SportWrap Armbands for iPod come in
colors 01/03/2005 12:17 PM
XtremeMac on Monday introduced three new color choices for its SportWrap Armbands for iPod and iPod mini -- carriers for Apple Computer Inc.'s digital music player specifically designed for the active lifestyle. The new armbands come in yellow, red and blue with black trim accents. They each cost US$29.95.

Making colors safe for Windows and Mac

Making colors safe for Windows and Mac 08/28/2004 11:08 AM
In a curious filing dated Aug. 26, Apple has applied for a patent detailing a "Color palette providing cross-platform consistency." According to the patent’s abstract, the palette looks to work in conjunction with an existing application to "facilitate user selection of web-safe colors." The images attached to the filing show an OS-9 interface with what looks to be a Photoshop 5-type color window. Colors are eventually arranged into groups of "Non web-safe" and "Web-safe" colors for Windows and Macintosh: "In laying out the color palette, the extent of achromatic colors located within the color palette is determined. The achromatic colors are then arranged in one group on the palette, for instance in order of lightest to darkest. The non web-safe chromatic colors are then grouped together. From this grouping blends of the colors are created. Finally, the web-safe chromatic colors are grouped together. Blends with respect to the web-safe chromatic colors are created and then grouped on the color palette.” While it seems to be a relatively outdated concept (with outdated diagrams), Apple has yet to incorporate this specific technology in one of its applications.

Fix hard-to-read colors in xterm

Fix hard-to-read colors in xterm 07/12/2004 07:29 AM
I like running my xterms with a black background. I found that whenever a dark-blue color is used inside an xterm on my Mac, it is extremely hard to read for me. The same is not true on my Linux-based laptop -- there I don't ...
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