The sun is shining today! And it is mild enough to open up the blinds without chilling the interior of the house through all that glass.

I have a quiet day lined up. There is bread to be baked. A small heap of documents needs to be filed. I've been tweaking my Mac OS to save myself time and aggravation, read the mac tech talk below if interested.

Also, there are calls to make to work out issues with the bank in regards to what I consider unreasonable service charges for our mortgage, and Revenue Canada, who have applied payments to the wrong year and must correct their error.

And there is the day gone!

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My iMac runs OS Leopard. I'll not be upgrading to the most recent operating system any time soon.

There is a wonderful function on the Mac called screen capture, I use is daily. You use it to take a picture of your screen, all of your screen or part of your screen.

An annoying function of the software is that the pictures save to the desktop and are named picture1.png, picture2.png etc.. If one is deleted, say picture5.png, then the gap will be filled with a new picture5.png the next time you do a screen capture.

If you move the pictures off the desktop and into a folder, the new screen shots on the desktop have the same file names as the old screen shots you moved into the folder.

So, if you move your new screen shots into that folder, they overwrite the old screen shots. You can lose your old screen shots if your not careful, and if you are careful it is a pain in the neck to have to rename the new screen shots, so that you can save them in that folder.

This morning I decided to see if there was an easy solution to this problem. I found a solution which was not exactly easy, but it was manageable and works well. By installing a borrowed script and using terminal to change some of the unix settings on the computer, you can get a screen capture to save with a name based on the date and time, which means each filename is unique and all are sequential.

The script was written by Ryan Todd and after installing the script the instructions for configuring the operating system can be found on RUN_AMUCK blog. Thanks Ryan and Anthony!

I had a bit of trouble in terminal, but that was due to my own inattention to detail, as usual. The whole thing worked like a charm when I took my time and read their instructions carefully.
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