How to Change Speaker Size on a Sony STR-k740p Receiver
This is just one my random posts in order to document some information that I found a bit difficult to find. This should ease the search for others. The Sony manuals mention that you cannot change...
View ArticleQuantifying a "labor of love"
I have been thinking about the time I have invested over the past year on iPhoto2Gmail. Lots of long nights figuring out Objective C and the Cocoa API's, lots of nights tracking down bugs reported by...
View Articlenew Gmail UI breaks libgmailer's contact features
I've reported the bug on libgmailer's sourceforge forums, but I figure it's good to post it here too.To get the good old libgmailer-compatible UI, you have to specify "ui=1".I'll be rolling out updates...
View ArticleSplitting Hairs (Or Comma Separated Values) in Java ...
A recent bug in my Java SMTP client led me down the fun path of figuring out how to conditionally split a string of email-addresses using commas in Java.Since Sun has deprecated Tokenizers, the...
View ArticleGoogle ClientLogin in Objective C
I recently wrote this function to replace libgmailer's role in iPhoto2Gmail and Aperture2Gmail as an authentication validator. I looked into using the excellent GData APIs Objective-C Client Library,...
View ArticleTip for Failed Time Machine Restore
So I recently went through a two day ordeal caused by both a dying hard drive and my cheapness. A parade of software failures like this one should be written down for posterity anyway. Read on for some...
View ArticleXcode 3.0 Snapshots: Notes on Repository Location
Man, I love this new feature. Being able to diff files to any of my previous Snapshots is superb. Being able to roll back changes on a single file or over the entire project is even better. I find I...
View ArticleOne step Universal Binary builds Compatible with 10.3 PPC with Xcode (for reals)
Dang. That was a long title. An alternate title could have been: how to misread Apple's Cross Development documentation.Anyway, when I upgraded my main development system to Leopard 10.5, my Xcode 2.4...
View ArticleA Simple YUI-Powered Accordion Widget
Accordion menus are all the rage at the moment (as are Carousels and Sliders). I wanted a snazzy way to show my resume during my recent job search so I went looking for an accordion-style menu. I had...
View ArticleVia Lifehacker: Search All Craigslist Sites at Once With Google
http://lifehacker.com/399046/search-all-craigslist-sites-at-once-with-google
View ArticleVia vafer.org: Emailing from Cocoa
I decided to check the "interwebs" earlier this evening for some information on the current state of Cocoa SMTP client libraries. I was very pleasantly surprised to read Torsten Curdt's great post on...
View ArticleWhat All Documentation for Scientific Apps Should Be Like
My old co-workers at Umlaut Software are awesome dudes. Gifted programmers, and (at times) hilarious guys. I think that the awesomeness of John's new 3D renderer proved too great for simple CSS and...
View ArticleMore Splitting!
Since I last posted that handy regex to conditionally split commas, I've migrated to a great native Cocoa emailing engine (Pantomime). I therefore needed to do the splitting in Cocoa and not Java. Out...
View ArticleMisbehaving NSMenuItems when modal
The other day at work I spent several hours tracking down this precious little gem of confusing behavior with NSMenuItem. The framework is supposed to give you some menu-related niceties when a window...
View ArticleVia learning2code: Manually install latest Xcode Documentation
At work we had several problems with our proxy and limited bandwidth when we rolled out Xcode 3.2.2. All of our dev machines started simultaneously trying to download gigs of documentation. In the mean...
View ArticleVia www.jamescochran.org: Installing FreeNAS on VirtualBox
Fantastic tutorial got me up and running with FreeNAS on VirtualBox in no time: Currently testing FreeNAS 0.7.1 (Shere) running in VirtualBox on Windows 7 64bit. My first Time Machine backup is under...
View ArticleNetflix vs my new MacBook Pro: Error n8156-6013
So, I recently sold my old MacBook and gathered up enough scratch for a brand new MacBook Pro. I had upgraded my old Mac with an ultra-fast Intel SSD drive, so naturally I kept it and simply popped it...
View ArticleGmail SMTP Issues with attachments
A few *2Gmail plugin users (including myself) have recently (mid November, 2010) started seeing the very informative and purposely vague "Oops! An Error Occurred while sending your email." error...
View ArticleMac App Store Submission troubles behind corporate network
An error occurred while connecting to the transport host https://itmsdav.apple.com: Operation timed out Could not start delivery: all transports failed diagnostics Last week we ran into a somewhat...
View ArticleVia Gus Mueller: Tracking down app rejections with productutil
Gus Mueller shares some great tricks after spelunking into Application Loader. What he's found could help MAS developers with complicated apps decode vague rejection messages....
View ArticleDetecting Plugin Functions and Properties in JavaScript
Peter Michaux's feature detection article really saved my bacon. I recently had to debug some IE 7 ++ bugs in our JavaScript API. I found some crusty functions that were supposed to determine if a...
View ArticleVirtualBox: Mac OS X 10.5.8 Guest on Mac host with Core i7 processor
The Leopard 10.5.0 Retail DVD booted and installed perfectly using VirtualBox 4.0.12 on my MacBook Air. After applying the 10.5.8 combo updater, unfortunately, the VM would kernel panic while booting....
View ArticleSpace Saving Standing Desk
Standing desks (or stand-up desks) are all the rage these days with nerds and geeks. This has quickly become a thing. It seems everyone is doing it, even a few guys in the cubes at work. Some hardcore...
View ArticleDisable Mac Mail.app inline attachments via micahgilman.com
Just what I needed. Helps improve compatibility with less leet email clients. I also find it less annoying. http://micahgilman.com/play/disable-mac-mailapp-inline-image-attachments/
View ArticleThoughts on upcoming Windows 8 launch
I'm bracing for this type of exchange: "My favorite website won't work on my new computer.""What version of Windows are you running?""I have squares""Oh, you are on Windows 8... Is it RT?""I have...
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