Archive for 'Mac'

Select-Copy, Middle Click-Paste in Terminal.app

Always annoyed me not to have the beloved ‘Select-Copy, Middle Click-Paste’ thingy on my Macbook. Finnally i figured out how to do it. 1) Install USBOverdrive 2) Fire up its Prefpane, and map the Middle Mouse Button to paste action 3) Install SIMBL 4) Install this SIMBL Plugin for Terminal.app

Ledmatrix Chip-8 Emulator

So the next thing could be an Chip-8 emulator runinng on a medium sized Atmega. CHIP-8 is an interpreted programming language, developed by the late Joseph Weisbecker. It was initially used on the COSMAC VIP and Telmac 1800 8-bit microcomputers in the mid-1970s. CHIP-8 programs are run on a CHIP-8 virtual machine. It was made [...]

Update: os x and DNS

I found some facts how os x is handling the dns lookups. Because i was wondering why changing the resolv.conf doesnt seem to change Safari’s or Firefox’s lookups. The key to this is lookupd and DNS Service Discovery. Actually i came across this from an iphone related problem, which is quite well documented at saurik [...]

New iTunes and iPhoto importer

I updated my iTunes and iPhoto import scripts. Added Growl feedback and some hacks to handle iTunes performance problems, some iTunes really gets slow and i had to add timeut exception handling. So just call this from the terminal: python addToiTunes.py -d /media/mp3s -r -p Where all Mp3 Files below the path get imorted to [...]

Stupid Fritzbox DNS

Since my DSL provider’s DNS updates are really slow i wanted to switch to opendns, which is a good a idea anyways. But wtf i cant change the default dns in my fritzbox. No way to do it via the web admin. Ok why bother i said to my self and went for the shortcut. [...]

ITunes commandline importer

Since i swichted my fun computing (music, videos + web ) from linux to OS X i needed some tools to make thinks easier with iTunes. I was used to amarok, which make music library handling pretty straight forward. I really hate the way iTunes handles music libs, so i switched the iTunes self organzing [...]