Clueless

[Ashley Aitken]

Hi Andrew (et al.),

On 27/06/2007, at 6:24 PM, Andrew Brown wrote:

> We are off to a week-long conference shortly, with a Mini and a 23"  
> display, and I thought of displaying a series of web pages (live)  
> in rotation, but have no idea how to set about that. I also need to  
> limit access via the machine to certain sites, and don't know how  
> to do that either. Mixing web pages with pdfs would also be handy...
>
> Any practical and positive suggestions welcomed.

You (probably) don't have young children using Macs do you? ;-)

In System Preferences > Accounts create a new account (not with the  
ability to Administer the computer) and use Parental Controls to  
change the Finder to Simple Finder and only give access to Safari.

In Safari you can add a certain set of Web pages (that may include  
PDF files on disk using file://) to the Address Bar so that only  
those pages and sites can get opened.

You could probably use Applescript to move between a set of Web pages  
or documents in Safari, but I would suggest a  set of app/window/ 
screenshots as a photo album for a Screen Saver.

That way (if set up properly) when people stopped using your Mac it  
would go to the screensaver which would display the static images of  
your Web pages, pdf documents etc.

Or something like that (e.g. you could also use a Keynote or  
PowerPoint presentation if you wanted more control over the  
presentation and to include information etc.).

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Ashley.

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Ashley Aitken
Perth, Western Australia
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