Posted in Apple, Geeky stuff on Aug 1st, 2008 No Comments »
This is more a note to self than anything else, as there are many posts already on the internet about this.
Recently I’ve needed to get mail on the road, and my employer’s policy forbids to connect a non-standard device to their network. So, a GPRS connection through the phone is an OK alternative. [...]
Posted in Apple, Geeky stuff on Oct 27th, 2007 2 Comments »
Yesterday I upgraded my Macs to Leopard. The main reasons for the upgrade were XCode 3.0, Time Machine and BootCamp. I had been using the latter very robustly on my machines. I read rumors a while ago about the BootCamp beta program ending for previous OS versions once Leopard was released, and I haven’t had [...]
Posted in Apple on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Lifehacker posts this article about recovering lost pictures on memory cards. Mac OS X owners may want to try these two commands before purchasing additional software: dd and fsck. Linux users most likely already know what to do — if not, the instructions below are 98% the same…
Find the device id: [...]
Posted in Apple on Jun 3rd, 2007 2 Comments »
This weekend I set up a backup wireless connection using my Bluetooth cell phone (Motorola RAZR v3xx). Pretty painless, thanks to Ross Barkman’s scripts, and Ed Thomson’s post.
More or less standard modem configuration. I had almost forgotten about such old good times when you had to deal with modem connection strings and those [...]
Posted in Apple on May 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
The guys at Strobist posted today a series of tips on how to get the most out of your webcam. Very interesting. One thing that still is puzzling me is why after I installed Windows XP on our 17 inch iMac with BootCamp 1.2, the quality of the webcam image on Windows is [...]
Posted in Apple, Software on Feb 15th, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been recently working on some screencasts to demonstrate data analysis techniques.
Two common features I needed for my screencasts, which I’ve seen many screencasters also use/need, are:
Overlay of a small frame on top of the screencast. For instance, you may want people to see you while you are talking. With computers taking more [...]
Posted in Apple, Geeky stuff, Objective C, Software, Tools & methodologies on Jan 25th, 2007 2 Comments »
I had old scans of many guitar tab books as a directory of JPEG files, sequentially numbered. That was the way the old scanner stored documents. My SnapScan has an automatic document feeder and scans directly to PDF, which is much nicer to use. I wanted to join these JPEGs into a [...]
Posted in Apple, Software on Nov 24th, 2006 1 Comment »
Although XCode has its own “code beautifier” built-in function (Format->Re-indent), it didn’t make it for me. It seems it is more tuned up for Objective C, but with a lot of my code being C++, these are among the biggest annoyances:
The first line after private/public/protected were indented one more tab from what it should [...]
Posted in Apple, Objective C on Aug 19th, 2006 No Comments »
While developing the iPhoto add in I found these interesting sources for several Cocoa classes.
Posted in Apple, Objective C, Python, Software on Aug 10th, 2006 No Comments »
iPhoto plugin to export in Flash
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