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 couple of years ago.
The script called PropertyFromInstanceVariable had already been added to by a couple [...]
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 sensor data from objects, devices, buildings and environments around the world. The key aim is [...]
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 files or man pages. Unfortunately the default key-bindings for Terminal do not provide this. Here [...]
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 the list view and does not allow you to change this from within the app [...]
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 continuously jumps forward and back in an uncontrolled and unstoppable manner. The only way to [...]
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 first one that I made was a ‘Trimet’. The Trimet uses a 1381-based solarengine with three 4700uF capacitors in [...]
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 ability to create aggregate audio devices. What this means is that you can use both [...]
