Idle Time

This is a desktop picture for Macs running at 1366 by 768, such as the 11-inch MacBook Air:

No, it’s not pure black. Yes, that bar at the top is part of it.

It’s meant to be used at that resolution and no other, with menu-bar translucency turned on. Scaling it, especially vertically, will make it look wrong.

If you want to adapt it to a different size, here’s the original document, editable in Lineform. You should scale the document and the background to the desired screen size, and the menu-bar background to the desired width.

It’s that time again! Just like last year, there are a bunch of different conferences going on; unlike last year, I’m not going to even attempt to list all of them.

The two that I have a reason to mention are:

• Voices That Matter. This time it’s in Boston, November 12 and 13. Their early bird pricing is still on through September; I’ll let their site tell you more. As I do whenever I mention it here, I have a coupon code for it, which is BSTBLOG. As usual, due to time and expense constraints, I won’t be attending this one.
• MacTech Conference. I’m presenting again—same topic as last year, how to recognize, find, and fix bugs in Cocoa applications, but this time it’s the Xcode 4 edition. The early bird period has ended, but you can get the same $500 off by signing up through this referral link. The time and place is November 2, 3, and 4 in Universal City, California.

Last year at the MacTech Conference, I brought with me some of my useful Cocoa links business card. I’ll be doing that again this year, so if you attend the MacTech Conference, feel free to ask me for one.

I hope to see you at the MacTech Conference!