Mac Geekery

[hellziggy]

My menu bar on my computer now shows the day and date in addition to the time!
Chiana & I survived our first foray into editing in terminal. :)

If you're a Mac Geek too and want to do this:

1. Fire up the Terminal (/Applications/Utilities)
2. At the prompt, type defaults write -g AppleICUTimeFormatStrings -dict-add 2 "MMMM d, y hh':'mm':'ss' 'a"
3. Press return and then type killall SystemUIServer
4. Press return again. Your menu bar will disappear - click anywhere on your desktop to reload it.


disclaimer: I got this info from MacAddict magazine. It appears to be working fine on Chiana with no problems. I am just posting what I did. I take no responsibility if your computer doesn't like it!

Comments

[boliviafang.livejournal.com]

Okay, a version of "force quit" sounds better. I gave up buying those magazines, too. There are too many shinies in the world. I buy plenty (non-computer related), so I don't need to be constantly flooded with suggestions for new ones. Mostly I just tag along, bringing up the technological rear, as it were. I buy cool things, but usually after they're three versions past cool.
But if I act like I've had them since they were cool, I get less persecution from the Shiny gangs.