Simple wallpaper - Five colours

Hi!
Simple wallpaper in five colors: blue, brown, gray, green and purple.
Preview:
Links:
http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … pes.tar.gz
http://luishenriique.deviantart.com/art … s-93530742
http://rapidshare.com/files/134212741/A … ar.gz.html
Widescreen version (1440x900):
http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … ion.tar.gz
http://rapidshare.com/files/134292404/A … ar.gz.html
Do you like?
Original post: http://luishenrique.org/blog/posts/wallpapers-archlinux (comments please)
Edit: More two wallpapers (links below):
1600x1200
1440x900
1600x1200
1440x900
Last edited by luishenrique (2010-02-03 22:05:51)

luishenrique wrote:
hatten:
gray - http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … 0x1024.png
green - http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … 0x1024.png
blue - http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … 0x1024.png
purple - http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … 0x1024.png
brown - http://labs.luishenrique.org/archlinux/ … 0x1024.png
right?
Thanks eDio! I appreciate all comments.
Thanks a lot!

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                    background: #EAEAEA url(../images/nav-bg.gif) repeat-x top left;
                    color: #07087a;
          |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
          | Wrapper
          |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
          This controls the styles for the wrapper div that
          contains all page elements, ie:
          <div id="wrapper">
          #wrapper {
                    background: #fff;
                    color: #3a3a3a;
          |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
          | Widget Box Colours
          |--------------------------------------------------------------------------
          Colour styles for widget boxes, ie <li class="widget">
          See layout.css for layout and size properties
          .widget {
                    background: #C0D9AF;
                    color: #000;
          .widget-heading {
                    color: #000;
                    background: #C0D9AF;
                    border-top: solid .3em #375852;
WHAT IS THIS FILE?
This file contains all the more advanced layout style properties, such as
widths, heights, spacing and positioning. If you want to change colours,
backgrounds and fonts, see simple.css.
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Wrapper
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
This controls the styles for the wrapper div that
contains all page elements, ie:
<div id="wrapper">
#wrapper {
margin:0 auto;
min-width: 460px;
width: 800px;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Header
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#header {
This controls the layout of <div id="header">
If you change the image inside the header,
make sure you set the "height" property below
to match the height of the new image
See simple.css for colour properties
position: relative;
margin: 0 0 0 0;
overflow: hidden;
width: 800px;
#nav {
Layout properties for <ul id="nav">
See simple.css for colour properties
display: block;
padding: 0 0 0 20px;
list-style: none;
clear: both;
font-size: 1.3em;
height: 2.8em;
#nav li {
display: block;
float: left;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Main
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
|
#main {
margin: 0 auto;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
width: 800px;
background-color: #FFFFFF;
#content {
Styles for the div thay wraps the main content, eg:
<div id="content">
padding: 1.5em 20em 20px 20px;
#content.full-width {
Adding a class of "full-width" to the #content div
will use these styles, eg.
<div id="content" class="full-width">
padding-right: 20px;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Sidebar
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
#sidebar {
Styles for the sidebar wrapper, eg.
<ul id="sidebar">
You can probably leave this as is
width: 15em;
padding: 6em 20px 0 0;
float: right;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Image Alignment Classes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
These are used to align images (see the content page example)
You shouldn't need to change these.
.align-right {
float: right;
margin: 0 0 1.5em 1em;
.align-left {
float: left;
margin: 0 1em 1em 0;
.align-centre {
margin: 0 0 1.5em 0;
text-align: center;
.caption {
font-style: italic;
text-align: center;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Widget Boxes
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Layout styles for widget boxes, ie <li class="widget">
See simple.css for colour properties
.widget {
margin: 0 0 1em 0;
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
.widget-heading {
padding: 15px 10px;
font-size: 1em;
margin: 0;
.widget-content {
padding: 0px 10px 0 10px;
.photo-gallery {
list-style: none;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
.photo-gallery li {
float: none;
display: inline;
padding: 0;
.photo-gallery li img {
padding: 0 1em 1em 0;
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
| Footer
|--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Styles for <p id="footer">
#footer {
margin:0 auto;

Printer aligns BUT only with Black and Blue all other diagnostics print with all colours

Initially when installed the printer REFUSED to align, took 7 attempts (OK I have heard of Einsteins quote !). Each time I used the printer screen to ALIGN PRINTER - the process failed. So I looked on the web, and:
Cleaned the cartridges,
Cleared the vents
Removed and cleaned the printhead
Prayed
Tried again
All to no avail, so then I tried doing the diagnostics via the PC software, and here the mystery deepened.
When running the HP Photosmart B210 Series tool box I got three differing results from the three printing options
A Print Quality Diagnostics Page gave me Ba full five colour printout
Align Printheads gave me black and blue lies/boxes/grids and the Alignement Successful message
Print Diagnostic info gave me all four colours with lots of meaningful info including the 73 Print head Calibration COnfidence Level:0
Any Ideas ANYONE, before I bin this and buy a Kodak or Epson in disgust
This question was solved.
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What exactly is the issue? The alignment aligns the color printhead to black printhead, and only one color (cyan for your printer) and black are needed for that. (There is likely an additional set of blocks that prints gray blocks fading to white. This section is used to calibrate the energy for the colors.) The other test pages you printed will print various diagnostic or test pages which will use all the colors.
A successful alignment page requires the page be printed on unused white paper and requires that the black and cyan sections are printing properly.
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Best way sought to mix colours in equal portions

Hi
CS5,
What is the best way to mix five different colours in equal portions and see what the resulting colour is, as if I was putting 5 drips of each colour into a container and stirring well.
I have tried the smudge tool and placed the five colours abutting each other, but there has to be a better way.
What settings should I use etc.
Envirographics

Hi,
I can convert the two layers to smart object but then layer > smart Object > stack mode >mean is greyed out.
I wondered if the mixer brush might be of use, not sure of best way to use it here, do I clean the brush, what settings etc etc.
what are the steps ?
Envirographics

Fingerprint Reader access to KeePass (from a Thinkpad with Password Manager)

The goal: secure, convenient, automated login to password-protected sites
KeyPass is a great open-source program for secure creation, storage and use of login passwords and other information. With a plugin called KeeForm, it allows very convenient automatic login to password-protected sites by clicking on a KeePass entry. To preclude unintended access to all of your secure information, it is wise to close Keepass after each use, or set Keepass to lock when minimized. But this is less convenient, because a long secure master password then has to be entered before each use of Keepass.
Using a fingerprint reader to enter Keepass can be a big time saver while retaining security. Capacitive swipe fingerprint readers can be very secure, provided they operate through equally secure software. They are available as USB units, or integrated into some keyboards and notebook computers, for example some Lenovo ThinkPads.
Unfortunately, set-up can be a challenge and there may be disadvantages even after the best workable interface between KeePass and a particular biometric system. This example uses the integrated fingerprint reader and software on a Lenovo ThinkPad X61.
The problem: getting secure fingerprint software to use KeePass
ThinkPads can use Lenovo fingerprint software alone for start-up into Windows, but they need additional layers of software (Client Security Solution - CSS, and Password Manager - PM) to work with other programs including KeePass. PM uses CSS security functions.
Cautions about Lenovo CSS:
1. Some organisations advise against CSS because of problems including clashes with antivirus programs. See http://www.ncsu.edu/antivirus/lenovo/ and
http://prowiki.isc.upenn.edu/wiki/ThinkVantage_Software_Under_Windows_Vista
These bugs may have been fixed over time - but install at your own risk!
2. CSS and PM introduce their own system overheads which may slow some operations.
3. Once tried, CSS may not simply be inactivated while restoring basic fingerprint start-up into Windows. The X61 at least insists that CSS be reactivated for any fingerprint function. If you try a Windows system restore to a time before CSS was first activated, you may experience the ‘blue screen of death'. The security chip evidently regards your desire for a past configuration as a security breach. With luck you may ‘live again' if you can log into Windows in Safe Mode to undo the attempted system restore. After that, I reactivated CSS. I was not game to try uninstall after inactivation of CSS - but see the ncsu link above.
Having decided to accept the ‘risks' of activating CSS and PM, you may want to try PM for all password management. For me it would not recognise some internet logins, could not complete auto-submission in others, and did not allow the manual adjustments that make KeePass so versatile. Unfortunately PM help is very limited. There is no current user manual (old manuals up to v1.4 available on the web do not match the properties of the current v3 of the software). KeePass (or the KeeForm plugin) also struggles with some sites, but it works much better overall. Help on KeeForm plugin syntax is limited, but otherwise KeePass help is great.
So we really want the fingerprint reader (via PM) to work for KeePass master password entry.
This is not so simple for five interacting reasons:
(i) It is tricky to register KeePass in PM;
(ii) PM then gets confused by ‘hidden' entry of a master password during fingerprint login to KeePass, and repeatedly tries to save ****** as a changed master password;
(iii) PM also tries to automatically register each entry opened for editing within KeePass;
(iv) PM tries to automatically register other logins even if they are managed through KeePass.
(v) Your KeePass records are now only as secure as your PM login (which is likely to be your Windows login).
The solutions: or workarounds at least
The best workarounds I could develop for these five issues were:
(i) To register KeePass in PM, first ensure that PM is running (icon in the system tray). Then launch KeePass, click the login window box for unobscured password display (three blue dots turn black), enter the master password and click OK to start KeePass as usual.
If PM does not offer to save an entry for KeePass by this stage, try ‘plan B'. Open a window to edit an entry in KeePass, then click Cancel. PM seems to recognise this more readily as a login window and may offer to create an entry. Accept the offer, and name the entry KeePass. Then open PM to edit the saved entry. You will have to edit several fields to achieve an effective PM entry for KeePass:
The title field must be "Open database - database.kdb", to match the title of the KeePass login window.
The file name field should show the full path to KeePass.exe (something like C:\Program Files\KeePass\PeePass.exe depending on your installation).
The login and password data field is accessed by double clicking the entry. It will need to show only your KeePass master password (in the unobscured text view). In login and password data, delete each line of unwanted text until you get to the final password line (shown as *****), and edit this line to provide your master password.
In the Advanced tab, select auto-fill and auto-submit and the desired security level [see (v) below]. Then select OK to get to the PM front window, and File - Save Changes, then Exit.
Now when you close and re-launch KeePass, PM should automatically intervene (requesting a fingerprint to complete the KeePass login if you selected that security level. Select ‘No' when PM asks to change the password [see (ii) below].
If you had no luck, try ‘plan C'. Close KeePass completely, then launch it again to open the login window. Then right-click the PM icon in the system tray, open the ‘Type and Transfer Tool', click the box for unobscured password display, type in the KeePass master password, drag the cross-hairs to the password field in the waiting KeePass login window, and release the password there. Click OK to start KeePass as usual, then click OK to close the PM transfer window. If there is still no KeePass entry in PM, check that KeePass has not been included in the PM excluded programs list. If this sequence does not work, reboot and check again. Failing all else, any entry that PM succeeds in making from any login page can be edited to an effective KeePass entry by editing fields as described above for ‘plan B'.
PM (v3.00) can be coy to associate initially, but it will accept KeePass (v1.14) as a password-managed program, and thereafter it reliably succeeds to auto-submit the KeePass login after some help described in (ii) below.
(ii) Having sent the correct master password to the KeePass login window, PM becomes confused by the ‘hidden' text now in the password field, and offers to change its record of your KeyPass master password to ******. You can manually select ‘No' in the PM changed-password dialogue box that appears every time you use PM / fingerprint for KeePass login. But Beware: if you ever accidentally select ‘Yes' (the default) your KeePass master password record in PM will be changed to ******. This can be edited to provide the correct password again, but it is more than a minor pain in the AR5E. Unless you know (or have a backup of) your KeePass master password you just lost access to your KeePass database!
To avoid this big nuisance and risk, you can set up to restart KeePass for each use from a desktop shortcut (instead of minimising it to the system tray) and have the shortcut run a batch file with vbs scripts that send the ‘No' message to PM automatically.
Here is an example batch file, with corresponding vbs scripts. You can make all these files using Notepad and save the files with the names indicated, into the KeePass program directory (C:\Program Files\KeePass in this example).
KeePass.bat (This launches KeePass and tells PM v3 not to change the password. Caution: If Lenovo changed PM program design in future, the effect could change; the batch file might send {TAB}{ENTER} keystrokes to another open window on your computer):
C:
cd\
cd "C:\Program Files\KeePass"
start " " "C:\Program Files\KeePass\KeePass.exe" "C:\Program Files\KeePass\Database.kdb"
start /w Sleep.vbs 1
start /w AppActivate.vbs
start /w SendKeys.vbs
Sleep.vbs (provides a short delay to open the ThinkVantage dialogue window, otherwise the following scripts fail because they are sent too soon):
Wscript.Sleep Wscript.Arguments(0) * 1000
AppActivate.vbs (puts focus on the ThinkVantage Password change dialogue window so that Tab and Enter commands are not sent elsewhere with undesired effects):
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").AppActivate "ThinkVantage Password Manager"
SendKeys.vbs (sends a ‘No' response to the PM request to change its KeePass entry):
CreateObject("WScript.Shell").SendKeys "{TAB}{ENTER}"
Please substitute ) where you see smileywink: in the vbs scripts above - I can't get this forum window to stop automatically translating the " ) sequence of text (without a space) as an emoticon.
This batch file approach should work with additional startup switches for KeePass, for example the /backup.path: switch used by ‘another backup' plugin (or you can use the db_backup plugin that works from the KeePass.ini file). Quotes are needed around any entry with spaces. But some things that ‘should work' such as just writing "KeePass.exe" instead of the full path in line 4 of the batch file do not give the same outcome for me. This may be an effect on timing of the switch of focus between windows - so if you strike a problem it may be worth experimenting with the delay time set through the sleep script.
If you set KeePass to lock when minimised, you will have to deal manually with the PM changed-password dialogue every time you re-access KeePass. So it is simpler to close rather than minimise KeePass after each use and restart it when needed, via the batch file.
(iii) You have to tell PM ‘No' whenever it offers to save an entry that is edited in KeePass. This is less of a nuisance, because entries rarely need to be edited once set up in Keepass. There is no way to turn off this requirement. If you select ‘Never' it will prevent use of PM and therefore fingerprint entry to start KeePass (not just the edit window).
(iv) Turn off internet login within PM. This will leave all internet logins to KeePass. Unfortunately you can not set PM to only allow a single program login (KeePass), but you can set it to exclude specific programs, so do that for other programs that you access via KeePass.
(v) Finally, set PM security within CSS so that a fingerprint (or a password if the fingerprint reader fails) is needed every time PM is launched (not just once per boot). Similarly, set KeePass security this way within PM. Otherwise (if you set the requirement to once per boot) your passwords are open to inspection while you are away from your booted computer.
Caution: How secure is your Windows login password? Most likely this is also your PM login password, so it now allows access to your KeePass database! Make sure that it is a unique, secure and preferably memorable password.
How close are we now to the desired combination of security and convenience?
Click on the KeePass shortcut to the batch file given above, swipe the fingerprint, wait while CSS works, then click on the relevant Keepass entry to access any password-protected site or application in your Keypass list - great convenience.
Security is very strong - both KeePass and PM are extremely secure unless you use a weak or insecure master password or select less secure settings.
Starting (or opening a locked instance of) KeePass without the batch file given above requires a couple of extra carefully-placed clicks in the process to tell PM not to mess up its entry for KeePass, then to complete KeePass startup. This is less convenient, and a mistake could prevent future database access - so the batch file method is recommended.
A final caution (while enjoying secure & convenient logins):
Beware - fingerprint access is so convenient that you may forget your master passwords! Eventually they will be needed! You may click the wrong button in PM, suffer a faulty fingerprint reader or change computers! Then you must recall your master passwords before you can access your password file (and possibly your computer). This could be devastating: loss of all secure password information in KeePass and PM (and possibly loss of all information on a protected computer drive, not to mention need to pay for a computer motherboard and HDD replacement). So:
1. Choose very secure but ‘unforgettable' master passwords for KeePass and computer (PM) access.
2. Always set up a secure master password as an alternative to biometric authentication (in case of a faulty fingerprint reader).
3. Keep your password database backups, and your separate master password backups, in another secure (preferably encrypted) but accessible location!
Program versions tested:
KeePass v1.14 (v2 betas not tested) with KeeForm v2 and DB_Backup v1.14
Lenovo CSS v8.20 with PM v3.00
The solutions were tested in November 2008 on a Thinkpad X61 running Windows Vista Business. The tricks to interface with KeePass can vary between fingerprint programs (search the KeePass forum).
Message Edited by r_g_b on 11-03-2008 07:01 PM
Message Edited by r_g_b on 11-04-2008 12:00 AM

I'm reviving quite an old topic here, but I have been unable to find any other good information on this. I currently use the latest version of Keepass v2.23 and have Lenovo Passoword Manager v4.3 installed on my new W530 laptop. I can't get PM to recognize any passowords at all, in web browsers or in windows application.
In PM the only thing I can do is create folders and secure notes. My fingerprint software works great for automated logins to windows. Does anyone have any experience with using the fingerprint reader with a windows application like Keepass?
How can I get the Password manager to do ... anything? Recognize a password in windows or a web browser?
I'm open to any other software to be used or I can write scripts if necessary to accomplish this. It doesn't seem like this should be so difficult, but from what I've learned about Lenovo so far, is that nothing is easy. After trying to get battery charge thresholds working proplery in Windows 8, I've already lost faith in a company that I thought had a great reputation.

Help! The new Pages. I can't copy an entire page or rearrange the pages. In the new formatt also when I insert a new page when using a template it doesn't give me the formatting and guides. Can anyone help.

I can't copy an entire page or rearrange the pages. I use this feature a lot, particularly at this time of year. Can't seen to rmove the header and footer markers either.
Can anyone help or do I need to revert back to pages 09?
If I do re-install 09 will I be able to open the files that where converted to the new version?
I don't like this new one. Many of the graphics features have been removed. Not impressed at all. Very frustrated.
The business card templates and others behave strangly. If I insert a page it's blank only. I don't get the guides. I was in the middle of a design project and had to start again from scratch as it threw everything out of alignment and I can't copy an entire page. When I use select all, group then copy when I pasted it on the new page it overlayed all the cards in the top two segments. Frustrating ! I ended up saving my first page under a different name that was the only way to copy the page then I had to work between three documents instead of one.
I went in today to last years Christmas tag file and the same issues I can't copy a page. I can't rearrange the pages.
Simple features like colour choice and transperency for shapes are gone. I want to use my colour choices not someone else.
Sorry, I am ranting.
For now all I need is to be able to copy and switch pages around in one document.
Please Help! I am about to start pulling my hair out in frustration.

Yes, I am using 09 with out issues. Just have to remember to use "open with 09" or open pages 09 first then my document.
I create some amazing cards and posters with 09 that when on a PC I would have to use both Word and Publisher to create. Flipping back and forth.
Apple if you're listening please, give us back our layout options and even add a few more design options like beveled and 3D text.

How to display special characters in APEX Classic Report column

Ref: Thread: How to display newline characters as new lines
Version: APEX 3.2
Hi,
I have created an classic SQL Report with one of the columns being a decode that gives a value 'Post'(the value should be highlighted in Red) on one condition and 'Pre' on another. I have followed the advice given in the page (URL provided above) , i.e. I have changed Strip HTML to 'No', changed Display as to 'Display as text (escape special characters, does not save state)'. I have also passed this value back to the same page to be stored in a page item each time a link (another column in report) in report is clicked. I have tried passing it as #DEADLINE# and \#DEADLINE#\. The issue I face is, instead of the value being highlighted in Red, it gets passed back as a string holding the value 'Post'. Is there any way I can get this to display as it should without the Strip HTML being changed to 'Yes'.
Thanks very much.
Rohi
Edited by: Rohi on 18-Jul-2012 04:21

876651 wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your response.
I am trying to display a page item that is derived from a report column based on a click on the URL link (*view >*>)
This page item (here, it is Manager_ID) should ideally be highlighted when a particular condition is satisfied (achieved using a DECODE in the report).
But it is not displayed like it should be.
I do not want the value to be displayed along with the html tags as a string.
I want the html tags to take effect and highlight the value within it.
Initially, I had set Strip HTML to Yes and the value was returned without any highlighting .
So I changed it to 'No' and and it contained the html tags.
I am not sure what setting in APEX Report Attributes can help me achieve that effect I want.None of the report settings are relevant. They affect the rendering of the report and none of the columns you were changing the properties of were actually rendered.
You can't pass HTML and CSS around in URL parameters.
I suggest you pass *2* values in the column link: the MGR ID and a simple class or colour value computed by the DECODE in the report. I've suppressed the first version of the report and created a new one that does this:
decode(dept.deptno, '30', 'c00', '000') highlight The link column now passes the MGR ID and the HIGHLIGHT colour (red when the condition is satisfied and black when it is not).
I created another hidden and protected page item <tt>P0_HIGHLIGHT</tt> as the target for the highlight value, and used the Pre/Post Element Text properties of the <tt>P0_G_MGR</tt> to wrap it in a <tt>span</tt> whose colour is changed using the <tt>P0_HIGHLIGHT</tt> value as a subtitution string:
<span style="color: #&P0_HIGHLIGHT.;">Having done that, I still don't really get the requirement here. I'm sure that given the full picture I'd be using a completely different approach...

Looking for an App with 'Post-It Note'-Type Capability

I facilitate multi-day workshops, and frequently have to lug overstuffed four-inch binders around with me. Sometimes more than one.
The challenge here is, I have to modify the pages each time I facilitate, based on client specifics, new learnings/research, etc. I have a system where I have five different colours of Post-It notes that I swap in and out on the pages. Some pages have had the same Post-Its on them for years, some change weekly.
What would be ideal would be, is if I could scan the pages - without the Post-It notes on them - and load them on my iPad, and then add some kind of virtual Post-It notes to each page. (Of course, I'd need my five colours). So some way to add colour-coded notes that are editable and re-positionable to a PDF is exactly what I'd like to see.
Surely such a thing exists!

iAnnotate looks pretty good, but for highlighting. And it's ten bucks just to try it... Wish there was a trial option. Good Reader also looks worth exploring.
Alright, now I know what I'm doing this weekend.
(I'll take more suggestions, if they exist)
Thank you, Meg.

Snow Leopard: was this really necessary? aka "multiple problems"

ok, upgraded to Snow Leopard and I can't see any improvements (apart from Quick Look but haven't tried its functions.
I have noticed several subtle inconveniences though... (see below)
This is a brand new MacBook Air and it was already very quick but I thought it would be nice to enjoy a better performance! Unfortunately everything seems to have slowed down a little. And the fans seem to come on almost instantly when watching youtube for example. Previously you had to be doing that for at least 7-8 minutes before the fans came on.
So:
- the machine overall is noticeably slower.
- starting and shutting down now takes at least twice the time it used to.
- my iDisk has gone crazy. It syncs constantly without actually syncing. This is now driving me crazy. Why oh why?
- some of the basic system preferences didn't "transfer" with the upgrade (safari home page, wallpaper, background colour of folders etc etc)
- Word and Excel are very sluggish and crash if I edit anything
- when starting up a file called "recovered items" appears in the trash ...?
- right clicking on the dock icons comes up with a windows-like transparency of options! how do I change this back to the standard silver one?
- my internet connection seems a bit slower but haven't got proof of it, it just the whole thing feels slower
In short, for the first time my Mac feels like a windows laptop... very disappointed.

HI,
Check to see how much free space there is on the startup disk.
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. *Make sure you always have a minimum of 10% to 15% free disk space at all times.* Insufficient disk space can cause some of the problems you are describing.
*Recovered files in your Trash after restart.*
The recovered files are temporary files used by Mac OS X applications. *Usually temporary files are deleted by an application when it no longer needs them*. If an application quits unexpectedly, the temporary files may not be deleted by the application. When you restart your computer, Mac OS X moves these temporary files to the Trash.
*"right clicking on the dock icons comes up with a windows-like transparency of options! how do I change this back to the standard silver one?"*
Might have to reformat and reinsatll 10.5 to do that.
For iDisk. Open System Preferences/MobileMe, select the iDisk tab. At the bottom of that window turn iDisk sync OFF.
Users are reporting that after several restarts your internet speed will increase.
Free internet broadband speed test here.
http://www.speedtest.net/ Click where it says; Begin Test
Download should be about 15.30
Upload about 9.95.
For the fans, try resetting the SMC. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
Hopefully this will help you out a bit and answered some questions... also, if you have any 3rd party (non Apple) application, you might need to update that software from the developers web site.
Repair disk permissions before and after any updates or upgrades.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac.
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