Archive for the ‘Mac’ Category
Monday, February 15th, 2016

iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator. iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Really nice tool to turn JSON into a readable format. Great!
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Friday, July 5th, 2013

It’s not really an editing tool. But it can be used a bit as such. And you can read really big files (several GB large) with it. Really helpful. HexFind.
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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2012
Sometimes, the font size in incoming mails is really small. And I don’t get it changed by the Pref settings. But this one seems to work:
defaults write com.apple.mail MinimumHTMLFontSize 18
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Monday, June 25th, 2012
Very interesting website, where one can search for alternatives for specific software products. Type in ArcGIS, and one gets a full load of alternative software packages.
Posted in Divers, GIS, Mac, Programming, Technology | Comments Off on Software Alternatives
Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Interesting solution to a problem… here.
Posted in Design, Mac | Comments Off on Creating (Small-Sized) PDFs with InDesgin/Distiller
Thursday, April 19th, 2012
a. Use the Symbol font. It has several parts of curly and straight braces and parentheses, designed to stack upon eachother with zero extra leading (or slightly less, if you want a smaller brace).
b. Put these into an Anchored object, anchored somewhere at an appropriate place, so its frame will always keep the same relative position to its text.
c. Well, it oughta look like this. On the left: a frame with three parts of a curly brace. In the middle: some random math. The top line “contains” the anchored object, as can be seen by the ¥ sign. On the right, the anchored object itself, positioned relatively to its anchor.

Via
Posted in Design, Mac | Comments Off on Adobe Illustrator: Curly Brackets
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Tools for some Finder, iTunes etc. tweaks and fixes. Finder Sidebar, many small things.
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Keka is a free file archiver for Mac OS X
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2011
Glims adds a cocktail of features to Safari (Tabs, Thumbnails, Full Screen, Search Engines, Search Suggestions, Forms autocomplete on, Dated download folders, Type Ahead …)
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Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Nice tool, as this is not build into iCal, for whatever-reason-but-just-unbelievable…
Update early 2013: Hard to find that tool. So, here is the DMG.
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Monday, January 10th, 2011
Spell Catcher is a powerful, all-in-one spell checking and writing software solution—a program that’s so much more than a spelling checker, its name only hints at its capabilities. With Spell Catcher, you’ll write better and faster—in virtually any application. Use it to spell check e-mails, letters or documents, instant messages, and more! Spell Catcher can watch for errors as you type, and automatically fix common typos. Shorthand Glossaries let you define your own abbreviations for repetitive phrases—even thousands of characters long! Use the dictionary or thesaurus to look up a word you’ve just typed to check its meaning or search for a more precise alternative.
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Monday, August 16th, 2010
Need to debug AJAX? Beside some tips I found on the Net, here is one I found particularly useful, at least in my current case. Just use a
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
Or
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/error_log
which displays the latest log entries… which can help to solve some major issues.
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Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Adobe® kuler is an online community where you can explore, create, and share color themes. The color themes in kuler are contributed by its users, many of them designers or in the creative business. You can share with the community your own chromatic ingenuity, too.
Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, Adobe® Photoshop®, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.
Posted in Design, Mac | Comments Off on Mac: Color Picker
Friday, January 22nd, 2010
BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red, BookBook brings three levels of security to your prized Mac. First, the hardback cover and spine provide solid protection from the rigors of the road. Second, the vintage book design disguises MacBook for superior security. And third, the stylish case protects you from being like everyone else because BookBook is totally original, just like you.
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Thursday, January 14th, 2010
ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color-matching application for your Mac that will help you build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. Use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK), create palettes from photos, search over a million existing color schemes, mix colors, create gradient blends, and much more!
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
As usual: Everything which comes out of Apple’s Shop looks great. Here is the “Environmental Page”, with great graphics, nice graphs, and lot’s of white space… Bravo!
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Thursday, February 26th, 2009
Nice, very nice, the new Safari 4. But, I prefered a couple of things in the old version, such as the Tabs below the top part of the browser, and the loading status bar. Here are the commands how to bring them back.
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Creates a birthday calendar in iCal from the contacts in Address Book. Unlike the built-in birthday calendar in iCal, this action allows you to set an alarm for each birthday. You can also combine this action with other actions to publish your ICS file to a web or file server.
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
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