Ok, so I like to steal. When record companies get all paranoid about the holes in your application that streams online audio, it’s people like me they’re worried about. Curious, amoral and determined with lots of time on their hands.
Last week, I stole music from FuseTV’s website because they didn’t got through the trouble of trying to disguise the directory where all the music files would be sitting. Too easy.
Today, I downloaded Facebook gifts and made my own OSX icons. The hard part wasn’t downloading the images, that was a simple “view background” click. The harder part was converting them to icons which I was determined to do since what’s the point of having a bunch of cute images? Other problem is it’s fairly easy to save as a .pict, but you also need to resize the image up AND preserve the transparency (it’s only pretty if it’s transparent).
First I checked the internet, but they directed me to complicated stuff with photoshop or special software, then it totally hit me. All the tools are in Preview, the little application that could on Macs, but the problem is the tools are inaccessible.
Solution…Automator for Mac! I made a little workflow that did it all quick and easy. I’m even attaching the workflow if any mac users want to try it themselves.
~The File Thief (if it’s possible for me to take it, you bet I will)
Wow… all your base are belong to Kara