Category: Software
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Cocoa Programming
I’ve been doing some Cocoa Programming for Mac OSX lately. I’ve been using Aaron Hillegass’ “Cocoa Programming For Mac OSX” and have really had an easy time following along with the book. Before ordering the book, I tried to dive into OSX programming using online material, and while I was able to get some things […]
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Perl on Mac OSX does not like ~
This caused me to lose about thirty minutes of my precious “not working, not sleeping” time (currently at about two hours a day.) I was trying to run some file test operations on some files in OSX using Perl (one of the newer ones, 5.10 maybe) that have spaces in their names. In general, I […]
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Stripping DRM from Ebooks
I found a good post on how to remove DRM from ebooks at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-strip-mobi-and-prc-ebooks-of-encryption/. They have a link to some python scripts that can remove DRM from some forms of ebooks as long as you know the PID for the book that you bought. This morning I purchased Brandon Sanderson’s “The Well of Ascension”, the […]
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I hate Fujitsu (AKA upgrading the hard drive on an artificially limited Fujitsu Machine)
My mother-in-law’s laptop is “broken”. The laptop is a Fujitsu FMV-Biblo MG50S, if you check the page there you will see there are a few others with similar specs. I took a look at it last week. A quick check of the hard drive (first on list of things to check because “I can’t put […]
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Emacs longlines-mode
I have been a fan of auto-fill-mode (and flyspell-mode for that matter) for a long time. Unfortunately, when I think about it I much prefer free-flowing text. The problem with auto-fill-mode is that it will throw \n characters into your text file when you need to wrap lines. Most email clients will automatically wrap text, […]
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Using NTT DoCoMo’s P906i as a tethered bluetooth modem for internet access with Mac OSX 10.5.7
This post saved my bacon and basically told me how to do things. In Japanese. Finding your phone Access the internet with it Set up the access information So say you have a nice phone, like the DoCoMo P906i, and an unlimited packet package for your phone. (Hey, I do!) Wouldn’t it be nice if […]
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Shamus Young’s PixelCity Screensaver
Pixel Ctiy: a procedurally generated city screensaver Wireframe mode Colored Block Buildings See all the screenshots of PixelCity that I took. Get the screensaver from Shamus Young’s site. I’m a big fan of Shamus Young’s Twenty Sided Tale blog. It is very well written, generally very interesting, has geeky computer stuff, fun game-related stuff, DRM […]
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Setting up an AFP (Apple Filesharing Protocol) on Ubuntu and a Firefly iTunes Media Server
One of the things I’ve been meaning to do for a while is set up my Ubuntu machine to share out the music I have on it. I run Amarok on the machine and love it, but that doesn’t help when I’m super lazy and don’t want to reach over for the linux machine keyboard […]
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iPhoto 09’s Faces Feature
iPhoto’s list of faces it knows Naming people is easy I recently bought iLife 09 and have been using the Faces feature in iPhoto a lot. The Faces feature will look through all your pictures and identify people’s faces. Then you can put a name to the face, and gradually iPhoto learns to spot pictures […]
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OSX Password generator script
http://www.codepoetry.net/products/passwordassistant Found a nice script to open up the OSX password generator window. Might come in handy if you need to generate a bunch of passwords. I’m still looking for a good replacement password safe for OSX / linux / windows (preferably one that works on all three.) I have been using Keyring (an open […]