Monthly Archives: February 2009

Changing iPhoto’s and iTune’s Library

… just by pressing the Option-Key (the Key formally known as Alt-Key) when starting the application.

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Additional Quicklook-Plugins

I just installed additional Quicklook-Plugins into ~/Library/QuickLook and refreshed the service via ‘qlmanage -r’ – works fine

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Send fax from the commandline (capifax for Windows, Linux)

This really nice project promises to send faxes from the command line under both Linux and Windows. The capifax command is part of a suite which also offers sending faxes via FritzBox-Phone from Linux -  great.

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PIL + Python2.6 on MacOSX

If you want the Python Imaging Library and Python 2.6 running on MacOSX, install MacPorts 1.7 – flawless!MacPorts is btw the tool, that turns a Mac into a computer (if you don’t want to install Linux) – and belief me, … Continue reading

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Needful Things

I am enthusiastic, I am astonished, I am amazed – this little German company shows how Apps should look (on the Mac). I’ve never ever seen a single simple App that I enjoyed using sooo much.Things is an application created … Continue reading

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Centering an ActionScript Object

For food I code ActionScript3 – and I have to admit, I kind of like it – not flash it self, but you can do very unwebbish things to archive excellent looks. Flash for design, xhtml for content and function … Continue reading

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Setting up a WindowsPC – Part II

puhhh … I finished setting up the WindowsPC. The disk migration finally worked via liveview and VMwareServer, but the PC was not fast enought – it worked, but I was not (very) satisfied.Now everything is installed manually – the only … Continue reading

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Formated my 1TB WD MyBook

Normaly Macosx does not like formating external HD > 999MB (or whatever) … just switched the partition type to GUID and suddenly the hard-disk was formated (DiskUtility -> Partition -> Options, GUID).

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Setting up a WindowsPC – Part I (hope it’ll be only a triology)

/me has to set up a WindowsPC – has been a long time since I was last forced into this. I feel a bit rusty concerning Windows matters.Here I will list what I’ve done so far: installed Antivir system updates … Continue reading

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Deutsche Bahn and the TRUTH

… seems the Deutsche Bahn does not like the truth – especially when it is in the wild. Thanks Markus Beckedahl for setting it free.

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