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  • correcting red eyes on pictures

    Looks like Picasa 3 for Windows seems to be the appropriate tool
    for
    doing that. Free and easy to use — these reasons are good enough for
    me.
    Update / 2010-06-22:
    Alright, alright, I can simply use iPhoto on OS X for that. Silly me!
    Did quite a few snapshots, uploaded them to the relevant places …
    Life seems to be far easier with the right tools, i.e. on a Mac, esp. if it’s running a Unix derivate …

  • 2010 LinuxTag and Perl::Staff on Picasa

  • to proselytize

    For those, that don’t trust me (again), that there is no such word: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/proselytize . For some reason I prefer this word over the similar http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/evangelize . Right, they don’t actually show the some progress of the process (ROTFL!!!), but they go to the same direction.

    @szabgab: I had to think of you and p-e-r-l, when I wrote this. (Using the dashes, so this article does not get picked up by the “respective” blog article grabber, as szabgab occasionally is soooo embarrassed over what I say.) In German we also have the phrase “Proselyten machen“, which in this context sounds really, really funny – therefore ROTFL.

  • a new wonderful book on DocBook by Norman Walsh: “DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide”

    Norman is an excellent writer, and it’s good fun reading his books. If you are interested in DocBook, then get this book:

    http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781449389604 = DocBook 5: The Definitive Guide – O’Reilly Media

    I purchased the PDF recently from O’Reilly, and I just printed a single page for a friend, who looks like being my newest DocBook proselyte.

  • duplicating a tab in Firefox

    Came across this recently whilst browsing one of those magazines.
    What would you need this for?
    Well, if I have my Google Mail Contacts open and I want to write a message to one of my contacts, but I also still want to keep … Contacts open – you never know, how long it takes to complete a message, but you still want to be able to look up contact details – then at least I need it.
    On OS X you drag the tab to another place with the mouse or whatever and the Alt key pressed. On Linux and Windows it’s the Control key instead.

  • keyboard shortcuts on all the major operating systems

    For the last couple of months I have been struggling with the keyboard of my beloved MacBook Pro. How often did I click on “Show Keyboard Viewer“? And it still didn’t really help on the long run. Today I did some respective “research”, and here are the links:

    Some of those shortcuts, that I really love now on my Snow Leopard MacBook:

    • “cycle through open … windows of the current desktop” resp. “switch focus to the next/previous window (without dialog)“: Ctrl+F4 or Cmd+` (that’s the Grave accent key).
    •  “show / hide desktop“: F11

    Today I also screen dumped my the Keyboard Viewer window, printed it a couple of times, and scribbled all the other uses of a key (together with fn, Control, Alt, Command) on it. This will seriously help me learning how to find brackets, curly braces (that I need for perl and ruby), the tilde (that I need for Portuguese and in a shell command line) far sooner.

    Update / 2010-06-22:
    Yes, on OS X at System Preferences / Keyboard / Keyboard Shortcuts, this is where a lot of nice shortcuts get listed.

  • using curl for “streaming” Flash movies into a file on your hard disk




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  • activating the Meta key for the Terminal app under Mac OS X Snow Leopard

    I just came across a description on how to do this, which seems far outdated and just not working. So I thought, I would let you know, how it really works with Snow Leopard.
    Here you see the window, that pops up for Terminal’s Preferences menue entry:

    You can see the Use option as meta key switch – use it, if you want!

  • “rake”, the ruby DSL, improved

    Well, I started using rake instead of make in 2007, when I got ruby infected. I noticed then, that rake’s output is a little “dis-arranged” (the entire “command” came printed in  one single line). That changed in the meantime, at least now with 0.8.7 it is just the way I like it. Thank you to the developers!

  • Google Mail Contacts is my personal killer app

    Serious!!!
    Once again: it syncs with the iPhone address book.
    I use it for reverse look up (phone number to address book entry) together with my telephone system in my home office, and that’s build around an AVM “FRITZ!Box“. The glue software got implemented by myself in ruby (w/o Rails).
    Why ruby? I thought, I could make it run with Cocoa Ruby on the iPhone. But you know yourself: Apple fights those kinds of things. And just for running it with a GUI on a usual Mac OS X? No, that’s not worth my effort.

    Update / 2010-06-16 11:45:
    I forgot mentioning xing.com here. Downloading vCards from xing and adding them here – that’s just awesome!