Archive for the 'Macs' Category

MacBook Pro into Camcorder Hack

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

I scrambled this week to try and figure out a way to record Alex Jacobson speak about HAppS at the last BayFP meeting. At the last moment, it occurred to me that I could at least capture it using a rather baroque hack:
Requirements

MacBook Pro with iSight camera
Screencasting software (I use SnapZ Pro, $69) w/Audio recording
iMovie [...]

Want darcs? Well, install these too…

Friday, December 1st, 2006

How could darcs possibly have this many dependencies?
[background: installing darcs using fink on OSX so that I can then build from source to get to the current version.]
The following package will be installed or updated:
darcs
The following 31 additional packages will be installed:
docbook-xsl gd2 gd2-shlibs ghc ghc-dev
ghostscript ghostscript-fonts gmp gmp-shlibs latex2html
libcurl3-unified libcurl3-unified-shlibs [...]

A Whole New Worldview!

Tuesday, October 31st, 2006

For those of you on a Mac, please press cmd-option-ctrl-8… it’ll change your life!
Via: Tim Smith on Rubytalk (sorry, no link right now)

Firefox 2.0 Tabs Waste Space

Monday, October 23rd, 2006

We don’t all have big monitors…

RAM Hogs

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’m getting pretty annoyed by the performance of my year-old iBook these days, mostly due to my DSL not working properly and running out of RAM (neither of which is really the fault of the hardware persay). After noticing that I was has 870MB of RAM “Used” (of 1GB total) according to my iStat Nano [...]