timed screen grabs (with mouse pointer) on OS X
The following shell script will, after a five second delay, save a screenshot every second for the next minute: sleep 5 for f in $(jot 60) do screencapture -wC $(date +%Y%m%d%H%M%).png sleep 1 echo...
View ArticleShe’s so beautiful the love of my life. We drove into the sea …
earthsurfer is the first computer application for years – perhaps decades – that has made me go “Wheeeeeeeee!” It’s a port of Monster Milktruck! to use the Wii Balance Board on the Mac through...
View ArticleAddressBook 4.0 Help: Importing and exporting vCards
vCard Splitter used to be teh way to split up the huge vCard file that Apple Address book creates. But it doesn’t work under Snow Leopard, but I discovered this tip from Apple: To create multiple...
View Articlecheap databases for Mac
Not super cheap, but pretty: Bento, from FileMaker: http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/index.html ($50) Pretty cheap, not so pretty: Menial Base: http://menial.co.uk/software/base/ (£10) Free,...
View Articleperhaps a slightly easier way to make SD cards bootable for CHDK under OS X
Now that CHDK has a working beta in the source tree for my Canon PowerShot SD790is, I actually have to prepare SD cards for it. The Bootable SD card – OS X instructions seem a bit contrived, so I took...
View ArticleArduino Uno USB invisible to OS X
as posted on the forum: Just got my Uno after finding semi-permanent projects for two previous Duemilanoves. Upgraded to Arduino 0020. After rebooting, and power cycling the Uno, there’s still no...
View Articlefor mac-owning light sleepers
A UK 50p coin is just perfect for blocking the snooze light on a MacBook: Those seven sides stop it rolling away.
View ArticleFattery
I’ve had my MacBook for just over three years (just past AppleCare, alas), but recently the trackpad had been acting up. I couldn’t get it to click and drag at all. Opening up the case showed me that...
View ArticleMac to Linux: 1Password to KeePassX
I have too many passwords to remember, so I’ve been using a password manager for years. First there was Keyring for Palm OS, then 1Password on the Mac. 1Password’s a very polished commercial program,...
View ArticleFun things you learn from old computers …
Microsoft used to supply two versions of its BASIC for Macintosh. One used decimal mathematics for precise tallying of small amounts. The other used the more familiar floating point mathematics,...
View Articleawaiting surgery
Seems I have two Macintosh PowerBook 180s: one has a dead colour screen but seems to boot fine, and the other (the one screenshotted above; yay ⌘+Shift+3 and enough room on the boot floppy …) has a...
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