Category Archives: hack

Xcode Script For Creating Properties From Instance Variables For UIViewController

Posted on 2010 02 24 by Jason Job

One of my favourite blogs on the net is Matt Gallagher’s Cocoa with Love. Today I was investigating ways to speed up my workflow in Xcode and I found a great mixed Perl and AppleScript script already written by Matt a … Continue reading →

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Pachube: The Internet Of Things

Posted on 2009 07 01 by Jason Job

I just found out about Pachube over on the Make: Blog and am feeling really inspired. Pachube is just awesome! It is a service created by HAQUE design + research that “enables you to connect, tag and share real time … Continue reading →

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Improved Arrow Key Key-bindings For OSX Terminal

Posted on 2009 02 26 by Jason Job

When using Terminal it is sometimes useful to have your Page-Up, Page-Down, Home and End keys (the four arrow keys on Mac keyboards) function as you would expect. This is especially useful when using more or less to view text … Continue reading →

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Remove Genre From List View In iTunes 8.0

Posted on 2008 12 12 by Jason Job

I personally don’t use genre to browse my music collection. I find it too difficult to pin a label on a lot of music these days; I would just end up stringing adjectives. iTunes 8.0 defaults to showing genre in … Continue reading →

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Oxygen 49 FWD/REV Transport Buttons In Live

Posted on 2008 11 13 by Jason Job

If you have ever tried to use the Forward or Reverse transport buttons on an M-Audio Oxygen MIDI controller in Ableton Live, you will have had the unpleasant experience of losing control of the play-head. When this happens, the play-head … Continue reading →

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Solar Powered Beam Bots

Posted on 2008 10 16 by Jason Job

My 2 year old daughter has recently become interested in a couple of solar powered robots that I built a few years ago so I thought I would share them here. Both bots were built from instructions in Make Magazine vol. 06. The … Continue reading →

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Using Built-In Audio Output As A Cue Channel In Live

Posted on 2008 09 28 by Jason Job

I have an Apogee Duet firewire audio interface that gives me one stereo channel in and out. It works great for single track recording and overdubbing but is not very functional for dj’ing. A great feature available in OSX is the … Continue reading →

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