techie question re ibook

[lobelia321]

You can see that I will now bore you with techie ibook questions for the next 24 months or so. I am evidently more exercised than is sane about this new gadget as I woke up in the night thinking about it and then had a troubled dream about how we sold our house to move next door and next door was really crappy, small and dingy, and I burst into tears and said, "We've made a real mistake!" Then I woke up and felt so relieved to see we were still in our old house with my nice loft study!

Which is where I am, again at the old imac. I have as yet no idea how to transport all my favourites and my documents and my bookmarks over to the ibook.

And I've lost Brad!!! I have Brad on my desktop:



He is exactly this size and sits in the middle of my desktop. My old version of OS8.6 allowed me to do this in the menu 'Appearance'; I clicked on 'Place picture', and then I could blow up the pic to screen size or place it in the middle.

But the ibook OSX won't let me do that! I can only make the picture be the desktop! But I don't want to do that. My desktop is a very busy area, full of icons and aliases and folders and stickies. I need Brad to be in the centre of it all not looming in pixellated glory as a backdrop wallpaper.

Oh, knowledgeable Friends: What is the trick to get around this (incredibly important and ideologically pressing) dilemma?

Comments

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

system prefs>desktop and screen saver>desktop>choose "center" from the drop-down menu

is that what you wanted?

b.x :D

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

something else you should enjoy, dear 'belia - with OS tigger, you can set your screensaver to be a safari RSS feed!

b.x :D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Er, I don't even understand what you just wrote. All of this is rather overwhelming for me, and I've been in a state and must de-cathect!!

*stares at your icon, your username and can't believe self's eyes*

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

*stares at your icon, your username and can't believe self's eyes*
eh??? what's wrong with mah icon?? and my username?? :P

okay.

go to apple symbol at very top left>system prefs>desktop and screen saver>screen saver>RSS visualiser>options. you can choose, for example, your screen saver to be text from the bbc news website!

b.x :D

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I did this and I chose bbc news and it's all shiny and rotatey and Dr Whoey! And there was a thing called hot corners -- is this of use? What does RSS actually stand for?

There is nothing WRONG with your icon or name! I am just not used to it! You know me: I was traumatised for weeks by the demise of nova. If it were up to me, I'd never leave my town of abode. i am a total bird of habit.

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

And there was a thing called hot corners -- is this of use?
not unless you want the screen saver to come up every time you roll your mouse to the specified hot corner(s), fucking annoying imho.

well i was always under the impression that RSS stood for "rich site summary", but i have also seen it called "really simple syndication".

ugh, i have nova's rotting corpse in my cellar. *kicks it* teehee.

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Yes, we have Brad! The Pitt has landed!

But: now the desktop is blue and not solid kelp. How can I get Brad to sit on solid kelp and not on solid blue?

Also, I downloaded Explorer and it keeps crashing my ibook. Wtf?

And in Safari: you know how in Explorer and Netscape there's a little icon in the corner that turns to show you that the browser is trying to access a site, and at the bottom there's a bar showing you how many more seconds or whatever remaining? Can that be customized to appear on Safari, also? Because I need those things!

I can see that I also need an apple-techie-bore icon. *ogles your apple cheeks*

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

explorer???!! pah! get rid of explorer!! it is no longer being developed for mac OS, that's why it doesn't work properly.

i will answer your other questions later!!

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Okay, no Explorer. But what if I need to have two yahoo emails or gmail emails open at the same time, my online name and my rl name? I will need two browsers open!

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

i don't know how well firefox and opera work for mac, but i would try one of those instead.

at the bottom there's a bar showing you how many more seconds or whatever remaining?
view>status bar

not sure what you mean by "kelp". but when you choose to center your pic there is a color box to the right of the drop-down menu. you can click on this to pick a different color.

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I figured out the status bar myself but thank you, now I feel proud for having figured it out!!

Aha, and pick colour menu! Good! Will check that!

You are so sweet to be my online lifesaver!!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

Oh, and that last comment was meant to display my new techie icon.

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I have a lovely, lovely green colour on my desktop now; it matches Brad Pitt's shirt! Thank you so mucho!

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

I do not see this drop-down menu. I saw this on my old OS 8.6 but the new box doesn't have a 'centre' button. Do you have a centre button?

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

indeed i do. what version of tigre do you have installed?

apple symbol, top left>about this mac

should be 10.4.4. if not, use software update to download the latest upgrade!

b.x :)

[lobelia321.livejournal.com]

omg, I don't have 10.4.4, I have 10.4.2! I am in total shock! I just paid over a thousand pounds for this product and what, they've palmed me off with an OLD MODEL? Er, how do I use software update? Hm, I may try this searchlight thingy, or is it spotlight? Thank you!!!

Okay, it just took me this entire post to figure out it was you. *slaps self*

I blame:
1) the weird absence of drag queen iconage
2) the confusing 'apple spicy asscheeks' moniker
3) my bedazzled state at being in the land of ibook and not in my usual realm

[birdgerhl.livejournal.com]

the weird absence of drag queen iconage
i'll have you know, i am not *completely* obsessed with drag queens. oh, okay, i lied. but i do have a just a couple of icons that are not dildo-wielding boys in girls' clothes. *g*.

I just paid over a thousand pounds for this product and what, they've palmed me off with an OLD MODEL?
*lol* they are always updating the basic OS - which is currently 10.4 - usually to iron out little glitches and improve security. these minor changes don't warrant them changing the version that goes out on the installation disks.

to download the latest OS upgrades (you'll need to be online):
system preferences>software update

okay, so now, spotlight. i'm actually not keen on this. *growls* - but anyway, it needs to index your drive before it can work properly. however, as you have a new machine this probably isn't an issue. if you try to use it and it tells you that it is "indexing", then let it do its thing. but if you can't find stuff that you know damn well is there somewhere, then let me know and i will tell you how to force it to index the drive. you can still search with apple+F as usual.

ooh, apple spicy asscheeks - *lol* - nasty nasty line from a random fanfic in that porn challenge you linked to!

*signs off with nice familiar draggy antony icon*

b.x :D