Call for Hacks

Everyone loves tips, hints, hacks and mods. Not surprising because what your do with your computer that others don’t is what makes it your computer and not just another Mac sitting on the shelf in the Apple Store. So I want to hear your hacks. I know what you’re thinking:
“Chris, what do I get out of sharing my hard earned knowledge with you?”
The answer: You get to write up your hack! Now you’re saying:
“Okay you not only want my hard earned knowledge but you want me to write it up? What’s next? You’ll want me to write it up in some form suitable for publication in a book?”
You, my friend, are psychic. If you wondering what you get out of it, I can promise you a book if your hack is selected.

Just a book you say. No, no my friend, this isn’t just any book. This will be a big book of Apple hacks. How big? It will be a veritable compendium of hacks for everything Apple, something no true Mac user should ever be without. By now you’re thinking: man that sounds like a great book but wouldn’t I be better served just to buy a copy when it comes out? After all, I’m a busy person.

In the big scheme of things well, maybe. The book will cost a few bucks so if you’re a quick writer you’d come out a little ahead on the deal. On the other hand, if you buy a copy it means you’re not in compendium of cranial computer connivance targeted at Apple fans. If you’re not in the book that means you can’t leave the book open to the hack you wrote and casually steer the conversation to a subject that matches what you wrote. As the conversation lags and befuddlement crosses the faces of those around you can casually notice the hack heading. “Why,” you could exclaim if only you were part of the book, “it looks as though some Mac genius has done the hard work for us!” Then, if only you had seized the moment, you could have read the passage aloud. Naturally, people would have been awed by both the information imparted and the style with which you presented said information. They would have clamored loudly to know the authors name. You could have looked to the end of the passage and with sudden recognition say “Why, it is I (insert name here) I had forgotten I wrote that piece!” Which would have been great, if only you had written something for the book.

And that is why writing a hack for the O’Reilly’s newest hacks book should be your number 1 priority, you want the previously described scene to follow the script right?. Well, #1 priority might be too strong, but it should definitely be up there. And I know that you MyMacers have it in you in spades. So let’s hear your hacks, drop me a line with your hack ideas and you too can join the rarified world of non digital ink.