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OS X themes
If you have been using OS X for any period of time, you will notice that they have shifted themes around a bit. This article provides an amusing take on the latest changes to iTunes! It's hilarious!
$ read more →DivX Support in OS X
While searching the web tonight, I came across Video LAN. This nifty little media player supports every Operating System under the Sun, and finally allowed me to watch Ben Rockwood's videos from the opensolaris users group in California. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice!!!!!!!!!
$ read more →Reverse engineering software
I found this article on reverse engineering Mac OS X transitions super cool! If you haven't used desktop manager, you are missing out! I couldn't work without multiple workspaces.
$ read more →Using automator to convert text to audio
While reading the latest tips on Mac OS X hints, I came across a cool tip on using Tiger's automator to convert text documents to audio. I am trying to read through RFC 2616, and thought this would be a perfect document to listen to while walking to class. Once you open automator, you need to drag the TextEdit "Get Contents of TextEdit Document to the workspace, and open the document you want to transform. Once this occurs, you can use the "Text to Audio File" option to convert the text file to an AIFF file…
$ read more →Managing OS X open source packages with fink
fink is an open source package manager for OS X. The fink command allows packages be be installed, removed, and updated relatively easily. As of this writing, there were 2048 open source packages available: To get started with fink, you need to download the latest version from the sourceforge website: Once you download the disk image, you need to run the fink installer. This will create the software directory hierarchy, and set a few variables in your profile…
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