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Add comment June 7th, 2005
Posts filed under 'Mac'
EMacs on OS/X for Rails development
Being a step-by-step guide as an aide for the failing memory. Inspired by the screenshots of Dee Zsombor
- Get a Tiger compatible Emacs
- (unfortunately Aquamacs does strange (i.e non-emacs) things with it’s windows, so ECB falls on it’s face)
- Install RubyMode.el (from the Ruby distribution)
- Download ECB
- Download supporting libraries (eieio, speedbar, semantic) and install them (usually make, make install and an entry in .emacs)
- Download MMM (Multiple-Major-Modes) so you have support for both HTML and ERB in those .rhtml files
- get ruby-electric.el and install it
- find the SVN mode for Emacs and install it
- Scott has some tips on MMM and ERB templates
- ido.el is a nice extension for switching buffers and finding files
All my extensions are in ~/lisp and that file (as well as ~/.emacs) are under version control in Subversion. That way, I can check out my workspace on any machine and have a configured way of doing things.
see my .emacs file for a possible way of doing this
All of this should work on a Windows box too
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10 comments June 2nd, 2005
A CSS microscope
If you are sometimes looking at a wonderful CSS design and wonder, how this was achieved, you could look at the HTML and the CSS code and start to figure out how to achieve things. This could take quite some time.
Enter Xylo Scope.
Xylo Scope loads all CSS files, and displays the relationship between the different tags and styles. It sports something similar to the DOM explorer that browsers like Firefox have but is geared more towards the CSS aspects.
I have only looked at it briefly, but this one looks like it’s going into my toolbox. At $14.95 at a very reasonable price as well.
Add comment May 23rd, 2005
HD Trailers
Download the QuickTime High Definition Trailers directly (and save them for future viewing, for example on a HD capable projector – thanks Michael ;-) )
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1 comment May 21st, 2005
More trays?
Our office got a new HP LaserJet 2420dn printer yesterday to replace an old LJ6 (that was woefully inadequate for office use).
Installation of the printer drives went fine (as long as you call a 67% success rate in the first round fine – now we are at 100%)
Today the additional 500-page tray arrived and was installed. On Windows it was a snap to tell the printer driver, that there is another tray to be served from. On OS X (the Tiger variant) – no such luck. I can print no problem, but the drivers insists on only having 2 trays. And the place where I can select memory and duplex option has no little checkbox for selecting the additional tray. What is the wisdom out there for these kind of problems? Google is no help. Can it be, that Windows is better than Mac OS X?
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Add comment May 20th, 2005
20 things in Tiger
20 cool things in Tiger – and I haven’t heard about most of them…
The best hint for me, was the hint for Keychain Access. I know that there is something that is called keychain, but I didn’t realize that it’s a full blown application that not only stores all your passwords (duh), but also allows you to retrieve them (what a concept). It also stores encrypted notes (think credit card numbers).
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Add comment May 15th, 2005
iTunes Music Store Switzerland is online
It took a while, but now it’s online: The swiss (and the scandinavian) itunes music stores. The price for a track is CHF 1.50 ( around 1 Euro or 1.2 US$ – quite expensive, but this is Switzerland, where the money comes from).
Also, version 4.8 of iTunes itself is available, and it’s playing videos now.
Now if only the quality of the downloads would be better – allofmp3.com is much more advanced in this regard. (I’ll leave the legality discussions for the moment)
1 comment May 10th, 2005
iSyncing with the Nokia 9500
After reading a bit about iSync & Tiger at vowe, I decided to give the solution outlined a try. However, I managed only to create a Kernel Exception on the phone, and to wipe out all my calendar entries.
Yes, I had a backup (through the excellent mobical.net service, which allows to sync the phone (and a lot of others) through GPRS.
Not giving up so easily (though it is tempting to drop the Nokia 9500 on Ebay and get a Trea 650 instead), I managed to export both contacts and calendar entries from mobical.net and import them into iCal / Address-Book on the Mac. One stumbling block was that the Addressbook only imported about 70 of 370 entries. Looking at the contacts.vcf file that mobical created, I noticed two entries with a PHOTO tag. Deleting those entries from the vcf-file got the import running.
Now I had all my data from the phone in my mac applications, but still no sync.
So I did, what every reasonable sane person in the same situation would do:
- Backup the phone through the Nokia PCSuite on my Dell Laptop
- Perform a factory reset on the Nokia 9500
- Re-Do the steps as outlined in the macosxhints article
Presto – syncing of calendar entries and addresses is now working. My Nokia 9500 got a spring cleaning and I can re-install those applications that are really necessary (Which it turns out, is quite a small number of applications)
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Add comment May 3rd, 2005
There really is nothing to see
I was visiting Benno, my friend who got both a PowerBook for himself and an iBook for his wife. When I looked at his running applications, I noticed “Norton Antivirus for Mac” running on his computer.
I laughed and said, that he wouldn’t need it. To this he answered, that there were indeed viriii for the Mac. I challenged him to name one. He googled and the very first entry said “Why there are no viruses for the Mac”.
A couple of minutes later I read “Move along, nothing to see here” at vowe’s flying circus.
He then proceeded to deinstall the whole Norton crap (which took an ungodly amount of time and several reboots).
Living without fear is a great feeling!
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Add comment April 29th, 2005
The NSA secures your computer
Something good is coming out of the NSA — a guide to secure various operating systems. I have cursorily glanced over the XP and the OS X guides and learnt quite a bit. This goes to my reference stack and will be thoroughly reviewed soon.
Very interesting reading!
[via vowe]
Add comment April 23rd, 2005