Today I am wondering if any of my Mac using friends out there ever subscribe to .Mac slideshows.
It's a little used, but really cool, feature for Mac OS X users. I am always showing people how to turn it on and use it.
Here's the scoop: the .Mac Screensaver Slideshow allows people to subscribe to multiple screensavers over the internet. You can only publish a .Mac Screensaver Slideshow if you have a .Mac account ($99 a year). But, anyone with Mac OS X can subscribe to published .Mac Slideshows!
Even better, if you know of two or three (or fifty) people with published slideshows, you can subscribe to all of them and your mac will automatically mix them all together. So if you subscribe to my published screensaver with 20 pictures of icebergs from Antarctica and another published screensaver with 5 pictures of Bigfoot, you'll end up with a running slideshow on your Mac with 25 pictures, all mixed together. Cool, no?
The default .Mac slideshow is set to show you product announcements from Apple. I turned that off on my machine within minutes of connecting the internet the first time. You can add anyone's .Mac slideshow simply by typing their .Mac name in the little box provided when you are setting up the options.
Just go to your System Preferences, click on the one for screensavers, choose .Mac, then click on options, and you are on your way to yet another cool feature included with every Mac.
(Shamless Self Promotion:)Oh, and if you do want to subscribe to my .Mac screensaver, it currently has pictures from Alaska, Antarctica, The UK, Norway, New Zealand, Hawaii, Arizona and Texas in it. My .Mac username is Pumasalad.
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Yeah, yeah. Rub it in why don't you.
yes. there's a solution for Mac envy, you know. and now with boot camp you can boot into Windoze when you just absolutely have to.
PC World tests even show the MacBook Pro runs most tasks faster in XP than similarly equipped Dells and HPs.