Author Archives: blogmywiki

Sideways Tiger Originally uploaded by gilesbooth. Trying to get a Kiosk running in Mac OS X has been a challenge… then we decided we wanted it in portrait format. Tried the undocumented Tiger screen-rotation feature on my Powerbook – didn’t … Continue reading →

Just had a rather expensive trip to Maplin to get some educational toys for, er, my children. Got William a Slinky at the checkout. The Beavis (or Butthead) in me is delighted to discover that they are made by the … Continue reading →

Apple are making computers with Intel chips. Dell are dumping Intel, we’re told. Cringely says Google won’t enter the desktop OS market – the margins are too thin, there’s just no money in it, they won’t do it. “Google WON’T … Continue reading →

Okay, so I was obviously doing something wrong – thanks to a kind soul on the Opera forum, I now know that typing /Applications/Opera.app/Contents/MacOS/Opera -kioskmode in the Terminal does indeed launch Opera 8.51 for OS X in kiosk mode. So … Continue reading →

I’m really keen to get a web browser in OS X running in Kiosk Mode – this means full screen, no scroll bars, AND NO MENU BAR. It also means locking down the browser to severely limit its functions, so … Continue reading →