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- Upgrading to Lion: tips and tricks
I’ve finally decided to upgrade my mac operating system from Snow Leopard (10.6.8) to Lion (10.7.2). Not really for the new features such as Mission Control and LaunchPad (which although being pretty cool are not going to change my life) but mostly for the fact that the new OS is well integrated with iCloud. Sharing […]
- Installing Mercurial on OSx 10.6.5
Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive. That’s what you read on its website, at least. I decided to give it a go mainly because I was looking forward to use a decentralized version control system for a couple of […]
- Editing PDF metadata on OSx (ie: having the Kindle display the right title/author with pdfs)
One of the cool things you get to do with a Kindle is being able to access your pdf library on the go; however soon enough I ran into the problem of getting all the pdf files to show up with the right metadata, e.g. name, author, creator etc.. I thought that was a simple […]
- MacBook: getting the backlight to behave the way you want
Ever wanted to switch the keyboard’s backlight on even if there’s daylight? Or to have it dance at the rhythm of your itunes playlist? These applications will solve your problems : and they’re all free! LabTick : allows you to turn on your PowerBook, MacBook or MacBook Pro’s illuminated keyboard in the daylight. iSpazz: plugin […]
- Opening UIF files on Mac
The UIF file extension stands for Universal Image Format. An UIF file contains a compressed disk image – basically it is an exact copy of a CD or a DVD. Just like the more common ISO filetype, the UIF format is typically used to create CD/DVD backups. Long story short: I was getting a headache […]
- NetNewsWire – Great RSS reader for mac/iphone!
For my online and offline RSS needs I’ve been using Shrook for a while – but since recently I got an iPhone the issue of syncing it with my mac gracefully has become quite important. Shrook does have a complementary iPhone reader, but unfortunately it lacks two important features: 1) it doesn’t remember the history […]
- How to make a (Mac) screen saver that shows your uptime
Found an interesting blog post that shows how to use QuartzComposer and a few patches to create a screensaver for your man… all the instructions can be found here
- Subversion on OSX
Day one – part time job – semantic web services. Need to install SVN on me mac… I’ve bothered at least two people in kmi till i found this really useful tutorial here….. I’ve firstly tried to install it using DarwinPorts, but I was always getting the same error: michelepasin:~ michelepasin$ sudo port install subversion […]
- AquaMacs 1.0
I read from Bill Clementson’s blog that AquaMacs Emacs 1.0 (is an Aqua-native build of the powerful Emacs text editor) has made its appearance during the last days – let’s see how many new users it will conquer!!!
- Lyx on the mac
I’m probably one of the last ones getting there, but I decided to do my best not to use Microsoft Word for editing my phd thesis. Oh yes – since I managed to arrive till this painful state, shall I give myself ever more troubles by using word? Not at all… So I found out […]