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Alfred Diblasi shot an original Twentieth Anniversary Mac (TAM) from 1997 on ebay. That’s left alone is really cool, but it’s getting better: the machine came unopened and never used.
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via: macnews

Hotbox of Brian Kendall is a small background application to show any area you marked in fullscreen mode. You are not bound to static content, but can also use it to zoom into parts of running videos. The utility is controlled via a central hotkey (default: ⌥⌘1) and uses OS-X’s built-in zoom functionality.

Configuration of the tool is done via a newly installed preference pane in OS X’s system preferences:

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Is your Mac Desktop cluttered? You have to give a presentation? You don’t want the auditors to see your desktop?

The simple solution: hide your desktop! At this point the little tool Desktop Curtain comes into play. It lets you completely overlay your desktop with an image, or change the background image and still display your desktop icons without the need to reconfigure your desktop settings: after the presentation simply quit Desktop Curtain and your previous desktop is magically back.

To access the settings dialog you can right-click on the desktop after Desktop Curtain got started, or relaunch it.

But I have to deduct 1 point for having to drag & drop a new image into the settings window instead of using a default file selection dialog.

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