I just installed additional Quicklook-Plugins into ~/Library/QuickLook and refreshed the service via ‘qlmanage -r’ – works fine
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.
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, it’s a good computer.
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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 for managing ToDo-Lists … I love ToDo-Lists. But not the ordinary ones, I’m totally into the GTD-methodology. Using this very well tuned App with my shiny new iPhone on my (too small, but also shiny) iMac makes getting things done a great expirience.
Do I sound too enthusiastic? – I know, I certainly am, but I’ve got no idea how they made me so. There is some usability-magic in the App.
Well may be taking 39EUR (was a limited discount for early adaptors or users of the iPhone app – don’t remember – now it is 49,90EUR *eg*) for the desktop version and 7,99EUR for the iPhone app forced me into being satisfied, cause I could not stand wasting so much money on commercial software.
Btw. I also bought Adobe FlexBuilder3 … much more expensive, eventhough I choose the UK-version, which was about 50EUR cheaper than the German one. BUT FlexBuilder3 is far from being perfect, there are sharp cornors everywhere.
To name just a few (I just remember):
- stupid autoindention (= vim’s autoindent – should be like cindent)
- sometimes projects don’t build – restart nessecary
- syntax and underlining breaks
- somewhat strange run-dialogs
- … some other things which I will deliver on a later stage.
All in all it’s better for ActionScript3 coding (which is what I use it for exclusivly) than vim – but FDT-3, I heard shall be clearly superior (but it is also more expensive). I will finish my current project using FlexBuilder, but I will definitly give FDT-3 a try then – there is a time limited test-version available. Well and I hope FlexBuilder4 will recieve some serious polishment (and I hope it’ll be cheap for updaters).
Resume: Things is extremly polished and to the point a solution for one (serious) problem – FlexBuilder3 is neighter of both (sorry, it’s late and I’m unfair).
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 – if you ask me.
Today I wanted to center an SWF in a browser – regardless of window-size. Since I did not find an adequate solution (which of course is obvious and simple) here’s mine – just for the the book:
...
// I want everything to stay exactly as I drew it
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
// register event handler
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);
// I don't want to repeat the code in the initialisation, so I trigger the event manually
dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RESIZE));
}
private function resizeHandler(e:Event):void
{
this.x = stage.stageWidth/2-this.width/2;
this.y = stage.stageHeight/2-this.height/2;
}
// I want everything to stay exactly as I drew it
stage.scaleMode = StageScaleMode.NO_SCALE;
stage.align = StageAlign.TOP_LEFT;
// register event handler
stage.addEventListener(Event.RESIZE, resizeHandler);
// I don't want to repeat the code in the initialisation, so I trigger the event manually
dispatchEvent(new Event(Event.RESIZE));
}
private function resizeHandler(e:Event):void
{
this.x = stage.stageWidth/2-this.width/2;
this.y = stage.stageHeight/2-this.height/2;
}
PS: I need a syntax highlighting plugin for wordpress.
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 thing left to do is writing backupskripts – I will use DVD-RAMs since there is not much data generated.
I really do not like working with/for Windows – having a repository and a fully integrated distribution is something I really don’t want to miss.
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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 (including all the restriction stuff)
- activating – via telephone (yeah, this sucks), since I’ve installed this version too often (used it for VM-experiments heavily)
- installed Mozilla Firefox 3
- installed Mozilla Thunderbird
- installed OpenOffice 3
- installed 7zip (free compressor)
- installed Flash (and felt bad about it)
- installed AcrobateReader (and felt bad about it too)
- installed VirtualBox
- installed Console 2 (latest beta)
- concated my partimage-files (I want to virtualize an old W2k-installation with lot’s of ugly software which needs to get activated) – did not install ‘cat’, but tried: copy /b <fileA?+<fileB>+<fileC>+<fileD> <newfile>
- used 7zip to uncompress the resulting file
- used VBoxManage.exe convertfromraw <infile> <outfile.vdi> to generate a VirtualBox disk image.
Then I got struck – my newly generated image simply did not boot – more on this later.
Currently everything to step 9 would be a simple aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade && aptitude install <application-list> under Linux.
Things I did not install:
- Palm Desktop (this PC will be used with an old Garmin): I hope it will work from the virtual machine … this software and it’s drivers are at least a pain.
- M$-Office: only got an old very old version and don’t feel like buying a new one. Excel and co will be available in the VM as a fallback option – OpenOffice should do the job.
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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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In subtile ways XUL is great
Just modified a print-plugin for Mozilla Sunbird. If everything is html, css and JavaScript, all you have to know is html, css and JavaScript 
. Just spend 10 very successful minutes in the source code.
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