Tag Archives: OS X

crappy start to the week

Published: 2 September 2009
This week hasn’t started out so great. A couple days ago while working on my Macbook, I suddenly got the rainbow beach ball and it wouldn’t go away. I switched to all my applications in turn and the beach ball persisted with nothing responding. I hit the power button and tried to [...]
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Adium Xtras

Published: 4 January 2009
I put up a new section under Downloads: Adium Xtras, which will hold things I make for the instant messaging client Adium. It currently contains two contact list styles, which are also available on my adiumxtras.com page.
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Adium and the Sugar Plum Fairy

Published: 3 January 2009
For anyone else using Adium, I’ve found a sound theme and matching dock icon set that just tickle me because they’re from the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. See Sugar Plum Fairy sound theme and Sugar Adiplumy Fairy dock icon set. Now anytime a contact logs on or off, or a message [...]
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make your Mac listen up

Published: 4 February 2008
I'm so tickled I can't stand it. All right, so Speech Recognition stuff on a Mac is pretty darn cool by itself, but now I've got a nice Apple Script that opens up Safari with various tabs of my favorite sites, and it does this when I tell my Macbook "Get on it."
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my organizational side run amok

Published: 3 February 2008
I installed Delicious Library earlier and have spent all afternoon and evening scanning in barcodes from my CD’s, DVD’s, books, and games. Wow, that sounds like the dorkiest thing ever: while everyone else in this country is watching the Superbowl, I’m sitting alone in my apartment, waving barcodes at my computer. I [...]
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chmodding and Ruby

Published: 1 February 2008
Recently, I switched from a Powerbook to a Macbook, and to copy my files from one to the other, I used a pen drive. Since my pen drive has a FAT file system, it treats everything as being executable. This, however, is not the case on a UNIX-like file system like OS X. In order to save myself the hassle of manually chmodding thousands of files, I wrote this Ruby script.
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more fun with Photo Booth

Published: 31 January 2008
So Jessica’s sitting here with me, her on her new Powerbook and me on my new Macbook, and we were playing around in Photo Booth: View full size View full size View full size View full size The funky colors and styles are all built-in presets in Photo Booth. I’m the redhead on the right, she’s the blonde on [...]
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the great Mac shuffle

Published: 30 January 2008
Todd was able to order a new Macbook Pro through work, so he didn’t have to pay a dime, the lucky dog. He, in turn, sold me his “old” (it’s about a year old, so I use that term loosely) Macbook and I’m selling my old (about three years) Powerbook to Jessica. I’m [...]
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DefaultKeyBinding.dict

Published: 6 November 2007
To make it more convenient for me to take clean notes, as opposed to notes filled with "x^2" and "y_j", I looked into changing the key bindings in OS X.
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.bash_profile

Published: 5 November 2007
eval `/opt/local/bin/lesspipe.sh` function dir_access_color { local DIR="${1-$PWD}" COLOR=0 [[ -r "$DIR" ]] && COLOR=1 # red [[ -w "$DIR" ]] && COLOR=2 # green tput -S <<<$'bold\nsetaf '"$COLOR" }
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