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I came across a brilliant Quartz Composition screensaver the other week on the YellowMonkey blog called iQuotes that shows a selection of Steve Jobs quotes as a Keynote/FrontRow-esque slideshow.

It appears that maybe a couple of people at Apple have set this as their screensaver too!

Anyway, I enjoyed the screensaver loads and had a shufty around with it in Quartz Composer and made a couple of tweaks here and there… I added a bit of movement and made the text fly in and out when the quote changes, that kind of thing. I also added the option to change the feed url for the quotes to one of your Safari RSS feeds from within System Preferences.

You can download the modded version from the following link:

Download iQuotes2.qtz.zip

I must stress I didn’t create this screensaver! YellowMonkey did! I just twiddled it a bit. All the hard work was done by YellowMonkey, zero credit comes in my direction for this lovely bit of Quartz action.

I trawled the web last night looking for a Photoshop template for printing on to CDs using the standard “Tray B” type tray that you slot into your printer. You’d think the web would be littered with them wouldn’t you?

Maybe I wasn’t searching hard enough but all I could find were templates for CD labelling apps. There’s plenty of CD templates out there but I couldn’t find a “Tray B” template that positions the CD in the right place.

Anyway, in the end I knocked one up myself so here it is for anyone that might find it useful:

Download TrayB.psd.zip

It works great for me in Mac Photoshop CS2 printing to a Canon Pixma iP5000 - YMMV. Note to Mac users - the file is set to be a Stationary Pad so when you open it, you’ll automatically open a copy instead in a true template-stylee. Uncheck ‘Stationary Pad’ in the Finder’s Get Info box if this bothers you.