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Tag Archives: geek
NetNewsWire’s Now Freeware
This is great news - NetNewsWire, the best news reader on the Mac is now completely free! Not just the ‘Lite’ version anymore, but the full product! This is my default (and only) news reader on the Mac. There’s a … Continue reading
SSH Shared-Key Setup - SSH Logins Without Passwords
SSH is a great tool for remotely accessing another machine, but entering your password every time you log into a remote box can be a pain if you would like to set-up some background scripts to connect to a server … Continue reading
A Better Ls for Mac OS X
I’m a bit of a command-line freak and like to spend a fair amount of time with the terminal open… As such I like to spend a small amount of time getting the terminal set-up nicely. Other than changing the … Continue reading
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Getting Your DVDs Onto Your Mac/iPod/iPhone
I’d looked at Handbrake a while back but the GUI was far too confusing for a simpleton like me. It seems like it’s been cleaned up quite a bit now and looks rather useful! (The little video giving an overview … Continue reading
Flot: Pure Javascript Plotting Library
Yet more chart drawing goodness. This takes a different approach to the Google model by generating really good looking graphs all on the client-side in javascript - very nice! Flot is a pure Javascript plotting library for jQuery. It produces … Continue reading
Google Chart API
The chaps over at Google have come up with a neat webservice - an easy way to get charts onto your webpages, the Google Chart API. Google has finally released Google Charts API, which returns a PNG-format image in response … Continue reading
Microformats Plugin for Safari
I’m a fan of the Tails plugin for Firefox… Now Safari (on Leopard) gets its own Microformats Plugin! Of course, in order to take advantage of Microformats and perhaps bring the information they offer onto your system, you need a … Continue reading
Darwin Calendar Server
At the moment I’m a very happy user of Google calendar and Spanning Sync for all my scheduling needs. But the geek in me fancies playing about with things so I’m thinking about setting up a CalDav server (when time … Continue reading
Getting Gmail IMAP Running Nicely
I’ve just managed to get my Gmail service upgraded to the new version with IMAP support,1 and as such i’ve been trawling the net for information on how to get this all set-up nicely. By this I mean moving my … Continue reading
Mount ISO Files With Nautilus
Here’s two short bash scripts that allow you to mount and unmount an ISO image easily within the right-click menu in Nautilus (the file manager in Gnome): $ sudo mkdir /media/ISO $ cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ $ gedit “Mount ISO Image” Now … Continue reading