Customizing my Mac has got to be one of my most favorite things. Besides changing the theme of the general interface, there are lots of other great modifications that you can do. BowTie is just one of those wonderful mods, not to mention GeekTool.

In my fevered attempt to make things uniform, I created the GeekTool BowTie Theme, which is featured on Mac Softpedia…

The GeekTool BowTie Theme is a free and simple styled Bowtie theme based on the Geeky and Serial Killer skins.

Install BowTie and load the GeekTool Theme to further customize your Mac, your way!

Cheers, Camxso

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Merry Christmas Everyone. Boy, it’s been real and it’s been fun, but no where near “Real Fun”. As every hip Mac Mother out there, I too have ventured into the land of video games for my children. Unlike some though, I’m more hip to saving a few pennies than buying everything under the sun. Being the miserly scrooge that I am, I thought I would try to make the most out of the very expensive Wii that my children now worship. With internet knowledge at my fingertips and my undeniable persistence to get the job done, I decided to modify this glorious godly Wii.

Step 1: Software Modification via Homebrew’s Twilight Hack v0.1-beta2. Found here: (link)

Step 2: VideoGame Rental Store. Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. (Actually not a bad game for youngsters.) Walking backwards Hack, hilarious. Makes you wonder just how much free time these guys have on their hands to be able to find such???

Step 3: SD Card. Well, at least that’s one thing I already had.

Step 4: Not Bricking the Wii. Followed Gizmodo’s instructions to the letter. Found here: (link)

Step 5: Wow, it really worked!! Put several useful little apps on the SD card from here: (link) and here: (link). From the Homebrew Channel I can access even more goodies using the HomeBrew Browser found here: (link)

Now, if you think that’s cool, I went, yet another step further because of the new Plasma TV Santa Claus brought. Will the big guy please give me a break?

I decided that if my children were going to worship the Wii, they might as well have all the best reasons, right? So, I thought I would enable the Wii to be a Media Hub instead of just a really cool game player, I mean, just what kind of fun would that have been?

Again, with internet knowledge in hand, the new Homebrew Channel and Browser, and obviously more time than patience, my search for “the answer” began. A complete guide was supplied to me again via Gizmodo (link). Maybe I should get them something for Christmas?

Now, for the real dilemma, how to get the Wii to play ripped DVDs from an external hard drive? Enter GeexBox. I found for my Wii, version 0.1alpha3 worked best. You can find it and all the other files that I’ve personally used here: (link) Note, blu-ray rips are a bit much for the Wii processor and Fat32 formatting won’t allow anything bigger than a 4gig transfer. GeexBox didn’t recognize HFS+, but strangely NTFS, which of course is the enemy, wasn’t a problem and allows larger files to be transferred. Also, if you don’t have some sort of NTFS read/write capability on your Mac, check out MacFUSE and NTFS-3g for free here: (link)

As a single mother of two, I try to find whatever I can, whenever I can. I am very interested to find out if some of the more skilled Wii hackers will actually come up with a Wii ISO loader? Sony, you might want to keep your ears and eyes open… Seems like something like that may already be in the works. Waninkoko Custom IOS36 rev 7 + MenuPatcher v1.0 (link)

Cheers, and have a Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, Camxso

Thanks to my starving desire to view the beautiful, I set out on yet another desktop wallpaper hunt just last evening and discovered not only one, but two really great little additions to make my Leopard working environment more delicious.

I don’t think this is particularly new, but I do know that I’m extremely smitten with VladStudio’s Wallpaper Clocks application and Wallpaper for Mac. When you work on a computer day in and day out, you tend to grow weary of looking at the same view. I absolutely love all of VladStudio’s wallpaper designs and this is usually the first place I go when I need a change of scenery. I was in a particularly grandiose mood, so I decided to check out the wall clocks section. I do wish I had stopped to take a look at it before, because I really didn’t know what I was missing. The collaborative issue of VladStudio and Softshape Development have brought us this wonderful application that refreshes every minute to keep you informed of the exact time and date and not in the usual way…

The application itself is very easily obtainable from the menu bar and with one click, you can change your wall clock or even get a new one. (link)

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When I thought things just couldn’t get any better, my joyful mood became almost euphoric as I came upon the Word Clock Screensaver for Mac by Simon Heys. I guess I’ve got a fetish with time or clocks or maybe I’m just trying to remember what time it might be?

With this little morsel, you can indulge your senses with custom background, foreground and topography color options, precision screen sizing and my personal favorite, choice of any font in your library. I know you are probably thinking, FONT for TIME… Yes, it’s a topographic display of every possible date and time in sentences, down to each second being highlighted in your color of choice. (link)

Oh, look at the time…and Enjoy! Camxso