Open Waves

This article would have been really helpful…YESTERDAY!  It goes into great detail giving you 3 different ways to change your short username on a Mac with Leopard.  I ran into a problem where I was setting up a new computer for a new employee and had it all done for them for their first day.  The first thing she then says to me when she comes in and sits down at her computer is, “They got my name wrong”.  So, not knowing I could change the short username (I had already spent too much time trying before without any luck), I just deleted her account and created a new one.  The problem with that is while it doesn’t take too much time to create a new account, I had to set up all our user preferences again from scratch.  That meant adding applications to the dock, setting up bookmarks in Firefox, and adding the network printers to her Printer list.

The other obvious time this would come in handy is if someone changes their name, such as when a female gets married and has a new last name.  Instead of having write down all their personal settings and redo everything on a new account, now I can just change the username along with the account name.  In short, it makes my job a heck of a lot easier.

- Thanks Dan Frakes, from Macworld.com

Actually, I have an iPod Touch, but the same applies. These are the ones I am using the most, and they are all free! Let me know which ones you are addicted to, paid or free.

1. Facebook
2. Twitterific
3. FSS Hockey (air hockey)
4. Pandora
5. WordPress
6. YouTube (already preinstalled)
7. Google Earth
8. Free RSS
9. Football (paper football)
10. eBay

Now you can create a FREE iPhone interface from your RSS feed!

Link: http://www.thesmespace.com/smeutils/feed/

I tried it for this site and loaded it in Safari on my iPod Touch. Then, I created a bookmark and selected “Add to Homescreen” to give my site it’s own icon. Now I can easily reference my site if I want to recall a recent article I just wrote. The first image is the main page, then what you get when you click on one of the posts. Finally, clicking on the title takes you to the full article on the website:

While I’m at it, here’s a picture of my home screen with the bookmark icon to open this site in Safari (bottom/right), taken by pressing and releasing the power button and home button together:

So what does your iPhone or iPod Touch home screen look like? Take a snapshot and post it if you dare!

So I’m trying to decide if I should get an iPod touch for Christmas…any advice?

If this works, I have just posted from my Mac’s Dashboard via WordPressDash.

Here it is (and of course it’s free). Pretty sweet!