OSX ← A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

installed both ios7 and osx mavericks last night

Jun

2013

ios7 first impressions: the mail app i think i will like, seems a little easier to dispose of messages, and viewing messages is a lot cleaner i never used game center, mostly because i don’t care about the feature, but a little bit because it was so horribly ugly. nice to see that fixed sometimes ...

Software (mostly) on my to-play-with list — Circuitlab, Paintcode, Pressgram, Tabular, …

Mar

2013

CircuitLab — worth watching. Today it is kind of a toy, but if this could grow, say, into a tool that would let me design and emulate SOC-based systems, and then outsource the parts supply, circuit board mfr, and even assembly of them, well that could be cool. PaintCode — if I was doing iOS/osx ...

Installing NumPy/SciPy on OSX

Jan

2013

Updated my Python install and NumPy/SciPy on my Mountain Lion machine. A couple of sites provided great guidance: * “Python, NumPy, SciPy instructions”:http://www.thisisthegreenroom.com/2011/installing-python-numpy-scipy-matplotlib-and-ipython-on-lion/ provide good guidance on getting python, brew, virtualenv, and bumpy up to date on osx 10.8. The scipy instructions are busted tho * “SciPy instructions on StackOverflow”:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12092306/how-to-install-scipy-with-pip-on-mac-mountain-lion-os-x-v10-8. Once you have Python and ...

Trying to get set up a Raspberry Pi dev environment on OSX

Sep

2012

I’ve been trying to get a Raspberry Pi dev environment set up on OSX. I’d like to have a cross compiler, a full linux build, an emulator all operational. There is a pretty clear outline at “RPIforum from earlier this summer”:http://www.rpiforum.net/forum/tutorials/article/16-a-raspberry-pi-emulated-environment-on-osx-lion/. I’ve had partial success: * Install Xcode and Xcode command line tools. No problem, ...

Tip of the day — toggle hidden files in finder

Sep

2012

Great “recipe for setting up an automator script”:http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/index_files/quickly-show-hidden-files.php to toggle hidden file display on and off in the finder. Also the Command-Shift-. keyboard shortcut for open/save dialogs is a huge win, I had no idea that existed. Nice time savers.

Beware the OSX Migration Assistant

Sep

2012

When I got my Retina Macbook Pro, I used the migration assistant to transfer over all my docs and apps. I had used it in the past and it had worked fine. But this time, my experience was different. First, it struggled with the amount of picture and music content I tried to transfer over, ...

Finally got my new Retina MacBook Pro and it seems a little squirrelly

Jul

2012

OK it is wonderfully fast, the 768G SSD is awesome, Aperture opens in seconds. I love the speed. Love. But — one spontaneous reboot. Address Book hangs on first run. The migration utility took forever and silently gave up trying to transfer my music and photos over, I had to do those manually. Had to ...

Software tips

Jul

2011

* “How to unhide your Library in Lion”:http://tidbits.com/article/12306?rss — chflags nohidden ~/Library. Yay. * “Making desktop web apps with Automator”:http://ihnatko.com/2011/07/22/making-desktop-webapps-in-lion/. All kinds of goodness in here. * “BBEdit 10 is out”:http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/bbedit10.html. Purchased. * “Marked”:http://markedapp.com/ seems like a super useful companion to BBEdit. * “Billguard is now free-er”:http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/07/billguard.html.

Recent software trials — Camino, Shuffler, GIT, Wisestamp, Microsoft Windows Live Sync

Aug

2010

* Firefox is feeling increasingly bloated, maybe because I’ve got a bunch of plugins jammed in. But trying out “Camino”:http://db.tidbits.com/article/11548?rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tidbits_main+(TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us)&utm_content=Google+Reader on the Mac, seems cleaner and lighter. * “Shuffler.FM”:www.shuffler.fm. Eh, streaming music just doesn’t work for me. My primary listening time is while driving and I need music that I can put on an ipod ...

Airbook SSD full…

Jul

2008

Not sure why, the Mac Airbook SSD was reporting full. Tried to delete a bunch of apps, nothing seemed to help. I kind of wonder if it isn’t a time machine problem. I don’t have great OSX intuition and so an examination of the directory structure and process list didn’t really mean much to me. ...