Archive for the ‘OS X’ Category
Photo feed as Desktop Background
Thursday, April 17th, 2008I first came up with this idea after reading a post on HackerMoJo.com about getting an RSS feed of images as a Screen Saver using a python script. The idea is simple: Take a feed, parse it, and save the photos it links to as numbered images in a folder on the disk, then use […]
Simulating encrypted physical disk in OS X
Wednesday, January 30th, 2008I’ve always wanted to do this: have my personal files on a memory stick, encrypted, and when I insert the memory stick in a USB port then OS X asks me for a password to decrypt the files. Unfortunately, this functionality isn’t offered directly as you can’t (at least from what I’ve tried and read) […]
Spoofing Leopard’s MAC address
Saturday, January 19th, 2008There are many legitimate reasons why someone would want to spoof a system’s MAC address. In my case, my University binds our network ports to a specific computer’s MAC address, and only allows you to reset that address once a week. My problems start when I want to switch my two computers for whatever reason, […]
Bandwidth throttling in OS X
Saturday, January 19th, 2008It’s been a while since my last post, and that’s because I’ve been busy with coursework, so I haven’t had time to mess around with OS X. However there was one feature I needed to figure out out of necessity if anything else. I have certain files I wish to freely share with some friends […]
Automatically restart crashed applications
Sunday, October 14th, 2007I love Quicksilver. If I ever sit on a machine without it, I feel handicapped, like something extremely important is missing. My major gripe with Quicksilver (and, this might just be my setup, I’m not sure), is that it likes to crash a lot. At least 2-3 times a week. And when it crashes, it’s […]
iTunes scripts I can’t live without
Tuesday, July 24th, 2007I have few obsessions in my life, and one of those happens to be keeping my iTunes library in some form (and definition) of ‘order’, without having me go completely insane. This involves keeping the ID3 data as accurate as I can make it (very tedious process as I had about 100 songs named Track […]
Share Windows XP license between Parallels and Boot Camp
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007Since my first installation of Boot Camp and Parallels, I’ve kept two separate Windows XP installations on my drive. One on Boot Camp, used for gaming and other resource-intensive tasks, and the other exclusively on Parallels, used for running some random software I come across and also to test the websites I build in IE. […]
Automating backup of Flash drives
Tuesday, March 6th, 2007I have a lot of my critical work on a few flash drives which I carry around with me constantly, mainly because I work on a number of machines and would like to have a central repository of my work. After losing one of the drives recently though (bound to happen sooner or later), I […]
Hints and code snippets for a more sane OS X Terminal experience
Monday, November 13th, 2006Pretty long title, huh? Well, I’ve finally made the decision that there’s no way I’ll ever be able to keep a journal. So instead, I’ll start posting code snippets and general hints that I mostly harvested online (and try to cite wherever I can – remember that is -), but also modified to suit my […]