I was searching around Photobucket and Google Images for some high rez shots of Mass Effect and couldn’t find any that were big enough (likely because 1, its hard to capture images off the outputs of the Xbox 360, and 2, the resolution only goes up to 720 or so… I’m looking for bigger than that to run native resolution on my 24″ at 1920×1200).

So, first person that gets Mass Effect PC - I would love to have the following shots for backgrounds:

• Citadel Rapid Transit loading screen (the view of the whole Citadel)
• The Normandy Dock (where you can see much of the citadel), the below image, but bigger!
  
• The loading screen or captures of one of the shots of the Mass Relay, (like the below, but obviously much higher quality)
  
• Some of the planet skies were just awesome, those would be cool too

There are plenty more awesome scenes that would make good high-rez backgrounds.  I mean, I love my current backgrounds (color-tweaked images from Hubble), but I’d love some good Mass Effect ones.

I noticed after upgrading to Leopard, OS X stopped automatically attaching to wireless networks I’ve logged into before, and said ‘remember this network’.  I loved that behavior as I could just turn on airport at work or at home, and connect up to the wireless.  I tried creating new connection profiles, clearing those items out of my keychain, etc etc, to no avail.

I then read this article on macnn forums.  I would link to the specific post if their forums let me, but down near the bottom, a little nugget of info finally caught my eye.  If you’ve moved your System Preferences.app file out of Applications (like, into a subfolder like Utilities), none of the wireless network saving works right.  So, follow the instructions by moving System Preferences.app to /Applications directly - delete all your current saved networks, check the keychain and remove any networks from there too, reboot, and join a new network and save it.  You’ll be able to reconnect automatically from now on.

I guess this is what I get for being a organization freak - I’ve got all my apps compartmentalized into folders cause I hate having to scroll thorugh lists of apps (I do the same thing on my windows machine too).

The other thing I was dealing with was Entourage.  Entourage (even 2008 with the latest service packs) doesn’t have an autoarchive function like Outlook does.  This makes the Exchange overlords unhappy and they start locking your account for going over the storage limit.  On Tiger and Entourage 2004, I was using the autoarchive applescript from the Entourage Help Page on mvps.org.  It worked all fine and dandy until I upgraded.

This autoarchive applescript file is based on that script, but updated to work properly with Leopard and Entourage 2008.  It is set up the exact same way as the script from mvps.org (Drop it on your machine (~/Library/Scripts seems to be a good place), add a schedule in Entourage to run that applescript). Be aware, it does use the Spotlight search feature - so if you get errors about missing messages, be sure to run the ‘Rebuild’ from the Entourage->Preferences->Spotlight menu.  If you want to configure the number of days it archives back from (it’s currently set at 15 days), you can edit the scpt file and recompile.

Hopefully that helps some people.

Here are some other links:

• Cello Challenge
• A bunch of Still Alive covers
• I’m so ronry!
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