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  • spoilt files from bittorrent

    I recently saw “a friend” 😉  who complained, that he had downloaded huge movie files from a bittrorrent, and when he tried to watch them, it turned out, that a special viewer is needed, and that that special viewer even makes a monthly subscription necessary. Well, under these circumstances downloading movies from bittorrents don’t make sense.

  • FIFA worldcup on my Google Calendar

    I just wanted to add the games to my calendar, now there are so many game events in my calendar, that I don’t really see anything any more. And as there is one calender per team (and I only selected a couple of teams), it’s not even easy to see the calendar wi/o FIFA worldcup. What a mess! 😉

  • 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!