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The New Aesthetic and I | Damien G. Walter
"Images are made in Photoshop and Illustrator. Video is edited in Final Cut Pro. Buildings are rendered in Autodesk. Books are written in Scrivener. And so on. To paraphrase McLuhan “the hardware / software is the message” because while you can imitate as many different styles as you like in your digital arena of choice, ultimately they all end up interrelated by the architecture of the technology itself."
newaesthetic  mac  computing  photoshop  mcluhan  architecture  technology  criticism  from instapaper
7 weeks ago by blech
Repair Time Machine after logic board changes | Mac OS X Hints
This works.
apple  backup  mac  macosx  macosxhints  howto  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
dcparker's MacVault at master | GitHub
"MacVault is a simple, automated ruby-scripted git-based set-and-forget backup utility."
mac  backup  git  github  software  via:jystewart  from delicious
april 2010 by blech
Clipstart | Riverfold Software
I'm currently battling with iMovie to process some videos, and it's not fun. This non-free (but reasonably cheap) app looks promising, although I haven't tried it yet. In particular, it sets "date taken" on Flickr when it uploads a video; unlike photos, there's not a metadata standard for videos with the ubiquity of EXIF, so using the file's metadata is definitely a Good Thing.
application  video  flickr  mac  via:daringfireball 
may 2009 by blech
How to get BBC iPlayer on the Mac working | James Cridland
Or, rather, "how to officially download low quality MP4 files with DRM". Why bother when you can stream better quality versions and not have to faff about with an Adobe Air app, which (as one commenter notes) isn't even particularly Macish?
iplayer  bbc  mac  download  via:blackbeltjones 
december 2008 by blech
DS_Store Format | search.cpan.org
Documentation of the various settings for Finder window settings stored in .DS_Store. This might be useful if I ever start itching to programatically fix up various window issues.
mac  finder  ftff  perl  cpan  code  via:siracusa 
december 2008 by blech
Two Macs: Fail. | Fraser Speirs
Syncing isn't good enough, but MacBooks are now (storage in particular). Also, hurrah for US keyboards (something I definitely agree with.)
apple  mac  hardware  laptop  desktop  computing  keyboard  blogcomment 
october 2008 by blech
MDIs on the Mac (Updated) | ignore the code
It's nice to know other people share my bugbears, even after all this time of Windows incomers diluting the Mac-ishness of the UI. I wish he'd expanded his point about Safari (which I still use without tabs on the Mac, damnit).
macosx  mac  ui  usability  comment  windows  via:ssp 
june 2008 by blech
Another mac bites the dust | Laurent Haug’s blog
"I am locked because I have Time Machine backups, [and] Time Machine backups can only be restored on macs" What use is a Windows backup without Windows? Anyway: hfsplus on Linux will read your data. (Hm, can it cope with the directory hard links?)
mac  backup  linux  blogcomment 
march 2008 by blech
Reading Steve Jobs | New York Times Blog
The NYT tech blog on the prospects of the iPod touch becoming just one of a family of devices. My (utterly worthless) feeling is that you're far more likely to see a 7" "iPod" than a Mac smaller than the Air.
apple  ipodtouch  mac  technology  kindle  nytimes  comment 
march 2008 by blech
New search powers lead Firefox 3 | BBC NEWS
A puff piece. ' Typing "cameras", for example, into the url bar, will bring up a list of the sites that the user recently visited that have cameras in their names' Welcome to IE for Mac 5, circa 1998. Sigh.
news  bbc  firefox  review  ie  mac 
february 2008 by blech
Requiem for a rendering engine | افكار و احلام
On iCab's development; "one man could single-handedly write an entire rendering engine that 'kept up with the Jonses' and ran natively on Mac OS 8.5-Mac OS X 10.5 inclusive".
software  mac  history  browser  development  via:daringfireball 
january 2008 by blech
Keyword Manager 1.1 - (TUAW)
Looks like this might be a handy (and pretty) iPhoto addon. Assuming I don't finally get around to trying something heavier first anyway.
iphoto  mac  osx  software  photos 
june 2007 by blech
Apple Updates MacBook Pro
"memory up to 4GB" "mercury-free, power-efficient LED-backlit display and a 17-inch model with an optional high-resolution display" "built-in 802.11n wireless networking" "the ability to upgrade to 160GB (7200 rpm) or a 250GB (4200 rpm) hard drive"
apple  mac  laptop  portable  pressrelease 
june 2007 by blech
MacDevCenter.com -- Replacing AppleScript with Ruby
Good article by Matt Neuberg, noting that OSA is still important but that Ruby's probably a better fit for scripting these days. Make sure you don't throw out the first item of type baby with the first item of water of container bath.
osx  mac  scripting  ruby  applescript  development 
february 2007 by blech
Yojimbo 1.3: tagging done right - O'Reilly Mac DevCenter Blog
Hear hear. 1001 and Flickr Export both manage to make typing in tags a chore.
mac  software  tags 
november 2006 by blech
Ignoring resource fork files files with subversion - jerakeen.org
Could be handy
mac  development  svn  howto  article 
october 2006 by blech
PhotoRec - CGSecurity
Found for andym, who inadvertantly lost his movie files on a memory card. I've seen plenty of stuff like this for the Mac and Windows, but it's payware- this is cross-platform and free (GPL).
linux  mac  photos  memory  card  recovery  undelete  tools 
october 2006 by blech
Bare Bones Software : BBEdit : BBEdit 8.5 Release Notes
Looking at these, perhaps it will be a worthwhile upgrade after all. There are lots of little fixes that should be nice in action.
bbedit  mac  editor 
september 2006 by blech
Bare Bones Software : BBEdit : New in BBEdit 8.5
Looks a lot like they're playing TextMate catchup, frankly. Code folding, and renaming the glossary to clippings, for example. Plus it's a $30 upgrade (if you didn't buy BBEdit 8.2 this year). Could be a hard sell.
bbedit  mac  tools  editor  news 
september 2006 by blech
Technovia: LowEndMac: The Great Asteroid Hoax?
I'm not sure if I'm more amazed at Ian Betteridge not knowing about the long-running Low End Mac column parodying "rumor" sites, or at his call to ban parody because stupid people might be fooled.
mac  navelgazing  blogcomment  parody 
june 2006 by blech
apples powerbook (4 March 2005, Interconnected)
"when a track comes on you don't want to hear, you jog your laptop and it bumps on to the next song (and you don't need to be in iTunes)." March 2005.
mac  hack  itunes  python 
may 2006 by blech
Behind the Video: Star Wars MacBook | A Whole Lotta Nothing
"The SmackBook is the first in a long list of innovative uses of the SMS." Posted May 2006.
mac  navelgazing  history  lackof 
may 2006 by blech
What price Macintosh?
Macs don't have the same price premium over comparable PCs as people think (10% not 20%), but Apple also don't sell low-end machines. Hmm.
apple  business  hardware  mac 
may 2006 by blech
FatBits: John Siracusa's Journal: And we all shine on
"So, to sum up. Glossy screens: bad. People: idiots. Steve Jobs: insane. This post: too long." Well, it's not, but nice of him to save me some typing.
apple  mac  hardware  laptop  displays  stupid 
may 2006 by blech
Apple - MacBook Family
"Now complete". And they messed up the iBook redesign and I'm still grouchy about the lost ports on the 15". I suppose I have to take speed as a consolation prize. Sigh.
apple  hardware  mac 
may 2006 by blech
rentzsch.com: Iron Coder v0 Winner
How did I miss this? MacHack-style 24 hour apps, source available, and some of them (FFMinator?) look like people could actually use them
mac  osx  cocoa  development  ironcoder  hacks 
march 2006 by blech
anti-mega: media centred
Nice rant from Chris about Front Row. It's what I should have written while I was still using a (supported) iMac; movie trailers didn't work once.
mac  macosx  frontrow  mediacenter  software 
march 2006 by blech
Carpenters Level Dashboard Widget
Most interesting for the fact there's an open source framework, rather than the closed source ams, at the heart. Shame it's name-colliding (Motion!?)
via:daringfireball  dashboard  hacking  mac  osx  powerbook 
january 2006 by blech
The Tao of Mac - blog/2006-01-19 - Windows in a MacBook
See, I said Bochs was rubbish.
mac  intel  bochs  emulator 
january 2006 by blech
OpenOSX: Run Windows on your Mac with OpenOSX WinTel
OpenOSX always struck me as dodgy repackagers, and this is neither sexy (virtualisation) or clever (proper EFI booting) but boring (emulation)
apple  mac  osx  windows  emulator  horde 
january 2006 by blech
Macworld: Mac OS X Hints: Text-dragging tips
Didn't realise you could launch apps by dragging text on them...
mac  osx  cocoa  tip 
november 2005 by blech
Theocacao: Smoother Image Scaling in NSTableView Cells
for future reference
cocoa  via:ssp  graphics  mac  osx  development 
november 2005 by blech
Arek's OggVorbis QuickTime component page
Works with QuickTime 7, apparently
apple  itunes  mac  macosx  quicktime  ogg 
november 2005 by blech
Mac OS X for Intel :: View topic - deadmoo got it working. SCREENS, MOVIE, GUIDE, and TORRENT
Certainly not for the casual tinkerer: requires PearPC, VMWare and cut-and-shut on Darwin and Mac OS X kernels. Impressive to see it done though
hacking  mac  intel 
august 2005 by blech
WilloToons.com: Music library bigger than your iPod?
Ah, the "multiple smart playlists" approach to the iPod music selection problem
apple  music  mac  itunes  ipod  cite:ldanderson 
august 2005 by blech
yergler.net » CC Metadata for Spotlight
Don't care about the CC metadata, do care to know if Spotlight works with multiple importers
spotlight  mac  macosx 
june 2005 by blech
Xbox HID Driver for Mac OS X
I don't get it. It's obviously old (spot the 10.2 stripes) and the linked adapter comes with Mac OS X drivers anyway
games  hardware  mac 
june 2005 by blech
Witch - alternative task switcher
The screenshot makes it look way neater than turned out on my machine (~30 windows). I'll stick with app grouping, thanks
mac  development  tools 
february 2005 by blech
Daring Fireball: Apps of the Year, 2004
Nice reviews of some Mac software
mac  applications  editor 
february 2005 by blech
search.cpan.org: DBD::iPod - Connect to an iPod via DBI
I hope this does what it says on the tin, but I'd prefer DBD::iTunes
mac  perl  database  development 
january 2005 by blech
Panic Software - The True Story of Audion
Long, but well worth reading (and clicking on the sidenotes)
development  ipod  mac  mp3  music 
november 2004 by blech
Deep Prose Software
£10 for an app that seems to do much of what Delicious Library does, and some things it doesn't
barcode  books  mac 
november 2004 by blech
John Siracusa Reviews Delicious Library
Interesting not for the app, but the cultural insights. I felt that even Blue Coconut needed not only a nice icon, but a customised disk image icon, for example.
culture  development  eyecandy  mac 
november 2004 by blech
HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod
More crap filling the blogosphere. Most people don't need it (they leave the iPod on sync) and there are way better Mac apps than the one they chose (in fact, there are lots of really crap apps that don't deserve to be free, let alone $10). Sheesh.
all  blah  hate  ipod  mac  navelgazing  you 
november 2004 by blech
43 Folders: OSXCon apps
most of these apps don't fit with my way of working at all. switcher apps. blurgh
mac  navelgazing 
october 2004 by blech
inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘Many windows’
Brent Simmons on the multiple window model
development  mac 
july 2004 by blech
MacUser - Word Processors
Comparative reviews of the Mac crowd
mac  macosx 
may 2004 by blech
PearPC - PowerPC Architecture Emulator
Scarily, it works. Unsurprisingly, it's pretty slow.
emulator  linux  mac  windows 
may 2004 by blech
KeyCue - Overview
Displays key combos. Now to display all menu items, and tie it to the key combo defaults system...
mac 
may 2004 by blech
Share Clip
Unlike Spike, has a Linux version. Sadly, unlike Spike, doesn't use Rendezvous
development  linux  mac  windows 
may 2004 by blech
O'Reilly Network: My PowerBook Wishlist [May. 01, 2004]
bdfoy goes mental (RAID? in a *laptop*?)
mac 
may 2004 by blech
Richard Giles blog: iTunes Metadata Addiction
Yes, I have this too. Spent a chunk of yesterday adding album covers to a few hundred tracks
id3  itms  mac 
may 2004 by blech
The Art of Adam Betts
A Mac-based designer's weblog. Might be worth watching
eyecandy  mac  personal-site 
may 2004 by blech
Many-to-Many: Spike and Howl: Less is more, and zeroconf is a lot more
Rendezvous is great, but I won't use something that broadcasts every clipboard selection ever
mac  rendezvous 
may 2004 by blech
Slashdot | Apple and Independent Developers
Slashdot commentary on the Rhapsody in Yellow post
development  mac  macosx  slashdot 
may 2004 by blech
DrunkenBlog: Rhapsody in Yellow
Musings on Mac OS X development, history, developer adoption
development  mac  macosx 
may 2004 by blech
~stevenf: Stattoo and Konfabulator
Comparison by the Stattoo developers
eyecandy  mac 
april 2004 by blech
BumperCar
Just so I can say "you know, for kids!"
mac  web 
april 2004 by blech
Tynsoe Projects: GeekTool
A geeky (obviously) way of putting stuff onto your desktop. Also, free (as in speech and beer).
eyecandy  mac 
april 2004 by blech
Konfabulator!
Little widgets. Very configurable, but I'm not keen on most of the offered widget's graphics
eyecandy  mac 
april 2004 by blech
Panic - Stattoo - Info that blends in with your Mac OS X Desktop!
Desktop display of Mac things
eyecandy  mac 
april 2004 by blech
Powazek: Just a Thought: Out of Tune
Sven's post tells him how to fix the arrow behaviour. I mailed Powazek, but he has anti-spam stuff. He's still nice enough to mail me back though.
itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
QLC: iTunes 4.5
Sven's coverage is the best roundup I've read (far better than the MacLife guy's one, certainly)
itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
iTunes
New release (4.5, complete with "Jukebox" tag to distinguish from iTMS) (plus iPod software 2.2, *not* for 3g iPods only) (oops)
ipod  itms  mac  mp3 
april 2004 by blech
LanOSD
Scriptable, network-aware bezel/overlay displaying app
development  eyecandy  mac  macosx  rendezvous 
april 2004 by blech
FairTunes
Another protected-AAC-to-not-DRMed app, but this one decompresses, so not as useful
itms  mac 
april 2004 by blech
Microsoft Expression
Illustrator-esque free stuff
design  mac  windows 
april 2004 by blech
Introducing Gush™
New boy at the message centre
im  mac  macosx  rss  windows 
april 2004 by blech
Tubetrack
Current departure boards for the Bakerloo line, London
linux  london  mac  transport  tube  windows 
april 2004 by blech
CocoaMySQL
Free remote GUI SQL client. Fairly nifty
database  development  mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech
DataWerkz
Somewhere between CocoaMySQL, Filemaker and Access?
database  development  mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech
Using Address Book from mutt
A little Perl script to do the job. Watch for the anti-spam substitutions
email  mac  macosx  perl 
april 2004 by blech
Graham Hicks | Archives
Customising iBooks (lots of work though)
mac 
april 2004 by blech
iPodlounge Forums - iPod 40gig - beautiful, but WHY OH WHY MUST I USE ID3???
because ID3 is a *standard*, and your folder organisation *isn't*. Next!
id3  ipod  mac  mp3  music 
april 2004 by blech
Your PowerBook Knows Where It Is
Using the Location Manager, I assume
im  mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech
PowerBook speed bump
plus more video memory, faster SuperDrive, slightly cheaper
mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech
iBook speed bump
and SuperDrive option on the 14"
mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech
Friday Flashback: Head Banging
On writing a MacHack, er, hack
mac 
april 2004 by blech
Notes about iTMS-4-ALL
More Apple encryption breaking in here (after daap and PlayFair)- hmm
itms  mac  macosx 
april 2004 by blech

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