Jonathan Cusick

Some pictures of the new Magic Mouse I picked up this evening from the Apple Store in Victoria Square.

What It Is:

Build is a conference which has been constructed for designers and digital ninjas, it will take place on Thursday November 5th at the Waterfront Studio in Belfast.

Build has been fully organised by Andy McMillan (@goodonpaper).

Who Is Speaking:

The lineup of speakers are of the highest caliber in the business and this will be a great opportunity to learn from the best:

Eric Meyer
Tim Van Damme
Mark Boulton
Wilson Miner
Andy Budd
Ryan Sims

A full list of the topics which will be covered can be found in the speakers section of the Build site.

Surrounding Events:

Unlike most conferences Build has a full week of events which will surround the main conference. These are not your typical events and include a showing of the popular documentary Objectified, a lecture by Airside, a BarCamp unconference and of course the Build after party. Complete listings for the events and registration details can be found over at the Build schedule.

Workshops:

Build also gives you the opportunity to register for a range of workshops on Wednesday November 4th. The workshops include Accessibility 2.0 with Philip Strain from Ecliptic, HTML 5 and CSS 3 with Chris Murphy and Nik Persson (Web Standardistas) and Guerrilla Usability Testing with Andy Budd from Clearleft.

Tickets:

If you are interested in attending Build it is still not to late, so grab a ticket while you can.

Roundup:

With only a week to go before the conference gets underway, the buzz is beginning to hit the streets and I, for one can’t wait.

Hope to see you there!

A good weekend with Ben (@Marmite_Robot) and Beckie (@i3eckie):

In car shot taken by @i3eckie:

Unfortunately photography is not allowed during the tours at the Old Bushmills Distillery, but this is for safety reasons and I was allowed to take some photos in the visitors centre.

Windows users utilise the famous ctrl + alt + del command to allow them to quickly lock their screen and leave background applications running. On the Mac using OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard, I will show you how this can be as easy as a single mouse click.

First enter the system preferences:

Next click on the security options icon:

Then under the general tab select ‘Require password immediately after sleep or screen saver begins’:

Once you have done this go back into the system preferences menu and click on the option for ‘Desktop & Screen Saver’:

From here select the button on the bottom left side of the screen called ‘Hot Corners…’:

Hot corners enables you to set the screen saver to activate by clicking on a corner of the screen, you can select any or multiple corners by picking the option ‘Start Screen Saver’ from the relevant drop down menu:

Now when you click on your selected corner(s) your screen saver will start, you will then be prompted for your password when you next use the machine and all your background applications will still be running.