Filed under: Design, Utilities, Macintosh
Loginox: easy way to change your Mac's login image
Loginox is an app with a simple drag-and-drop interface for swapping out your login image. That's literally all it does, but that's definitely enough. The only way it could work better is if the developers rewrote it as a prefpane, or if Apple decided to incorporate it into the existing desktop/screensaver settings.
[via Lifehacker]

I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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PigSpigot said 8:05PM on 5-15-2009
I am definitely getting this. As a former PC user going on 5 years with a Mac, I am partial to the design and stability of macs. But lack of customization can sometimes be a little unnerving. Kudos to the Loginox peeps. One small step for MacUsers, one giant leap for ... uh, no one really.
-Josh
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Evenio said 9:57PM on 5-15-2009
You can also just replace it using the Finder (no Terminal voodoo necessary) if you know where it is. I remember it being somewhere in the System library, I think.
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Josh said 10:51PM on 5-15-2009
I just use Desktop 2 Login. You open the program and it sets the login picture to match your desktop picture. And that's it. No button pressing. No anything.
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