Posts Tagged ‘Mac’

Quadcore MacBook Pro


2009
12.20

Still no trace, no hope for an announcement the next days/weeks? Should we really wait for the next Intel Chip Arrandale, or simply get the current CPU. I am in search every day, for some news. But only stumble across rumors.

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Macless life


2009
12.16

After 5 years spent with my PowerBook(ug13), which was an admirably well conceived and 1 year with a MacMini(Luke); as Luke was meant to become a multimedia center, he is now coupled with a nice FullHD TV. I am back using Linux Debian for my daily work and no computer for my private stuff.

Before switching to Mac I was living a happily windowless live( the 5 years before my switch to mac) with Linux. The last distribution I used for at least 2 years was gentoo. But it went from hard to very hard and time consuming to manage; and I had less and less time to be my own system developer/administrator, so the switch to Mac.

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Convert to PDF Version 1.2


2009
11.07

A long time has passed and our favorite OS has been updated. The hardware we run our software has evolved.

This minor updates addresses these changes.

The action is now Universal binary compatible with 32bit/64bit, and a user friendly installer has been added.

Download

Flatten Movies Version 1.1


2009
05.13

Quicktime

Quicktime

Flatten Movies is an Automator action to flatten every movie Quicktime is able to open. This is a minor release that should improve the responsiveness and stability of the action.

Version 1.0 didn’t save the output folder in the workflow, application or plugin this is now working.

Download Flatten Movies.

Convert to PDF Version 1.1


2009
05.08

PDF

PDF

A minor update for a developer a major improvement for a lot of users. I would like to thank for all the feedbacks I’ve got, for Version 1. It had quite a few problems; important enough to be immediately addressed.

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Convert to PDF


2009
05.06

PDF

PDF

I was astonished not to discover an easy way to convert text files to PDF with automator! Yes, I found some evidence of a past action which is now gone, here is a new implementation and written in Ruby.

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Flatten Movies


2009
04.29

Quicktime

Quicktime

Flatten Movies is an Automator action to flatten every movie Quicktime is able to open. It does so by invoking the Quicktime.framework. Without opening Quicktime, the advantage is that no Quicktime window floats around, which can obstruct your desktop.

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Download


2009
04.29

Welcome to the download section of this site. Every now and then I but some stuff for download in my posts. In this download section you will find the most appealing downloads

Mac OSX Leopard

Every now and then I need some tweak to get my work done.

File Description
Flatten MoviesAutomator action able to flatten movies without opening the Quicktime application.
Convert To PDFConvert any file that cupsfilter can handle to PDF

Ruby

Find below the link to the ruby scripts posted on this site.

File Description
atchange.rbAtchange script written in ruby. Monitors one or more file and execute the corespondent shell command
aspect.rbasbect the ruby way
perform.rbCall a method in the background

Peace of Mind


2009
04.27

As for me? I switched to the Mac. No more grep, no more piping, no more
SED scripts. Just a simple, elegant life: “Your application has unexpect-
edly quit due to error number –1. OK?” by Donald A. Norman forword in the UnixHaters Handbook

 

The Past

 

To explain why the Mac changed my experience with personal computer; I have to begin my story in the 80s. In the past lies the answers to my present enjoyment with Macs. I ran through DOS 5.2, Windows 3.1, Windows95, RedHat Linux, Suse Linux, Windows2000, Storm Linux, BeOS, WindowsXP and finally Mac OS X.

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