November 30, 2006

The new Groboto is OUT!

After 5 years of development, the new Groboto is out, and it was worth the wait! What is Groboto? It's a one-of-a-kind 3D application that lets you create amazing objects, scenes and animations.

See example movie below:

To see galleries of other scenes and animation made with Groboto, Click here!

Groboto now works on Windows as well!

Posted by ellen at 11:03 PM

November 13, 2006

Change screenshot format in Mac OS X Tiger

Any time I do a fresh install of the system, I find it necessary to change the default format of screenshots in Tiger to JPG from PNG.
Thanks to robg on MacOSXHints.com for this:

open Terminal and paste the following in. Replace image_format with jpg or whatever format you prefer.


defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format

You may have to kill the SystemUIServer in the Activity Monitor to get it to start using the new setting.

Posted by ellen at 1:06 PM

November 9, 2006

Firefox causes 100% CPU usage on Mac OS X

I've been attempting to run down the cause of my iMac being constantly at 100% CPU.

Here's part of the cause:

Clicking anywhere in a Firefox browser window pegs the CPU usage to 100%.
Using 10.4.8 and Firefox 1.5.0.8, I can still reproduce this ugly bug.
See Firefox Bug Causes 100% CPU Usage on Mac OS X for more.

Posted by ellen at 11:40 PM