Planet Debian
I have written about using lossless optimisations techniques to reduce the size of images before, but I recently learned of a few other tools to further reduce the size of PNG images. While you could use Smush.it to manually optimise your images, if you…
4 December 2011inessential.com
I meant to link to this a couple days ago — Gus Mueller shows how to create icons in Acorn using simple shapes.
3 December 2011inessential.com
Check out Ui Parade.
3 December 2011inessential.com
Check out the LLVM 3.0 Release Notes. So much good stuff. I can’t help but wonder — if you combine these great tools with the GNUStep Objective-C Runtime 1.6 release, will we start seeing Objective-C support on platforms other than Apple’s? If you’re a…
2 December 2011inessential.com
Kevin Ballard on Twitter: > CodeRunner turns out to be very useful when writing code for StackOverflow answers. Sure looks useful. Bought it.
2 December 2011MacOSXHints.com
At work, we run lots of tests for our product. We also reboot the headless minis after each reboot and want to with certainty that they are using the correct resolution. Our configuration management tool works best with command line applications. After…
2 December 2011MacOSXHints.com
Make it easier to create To Do items for iCal's Reminders list by creating a Service that can be invoked from the contextual menu or a keyboard shortcut. Here's the procedure: * Launch Automator and create a new Service. * At the top of the workflow, set…
1 December 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
This morning, Beloved Leader Victor introduced me to my new favoritest hack for the iPhone ever -- if "ever" means "earlier this morning." It's a really good hack though. What you do is this. In Safari or Firefox or whatever your favorite browser is,…
1 December 2011TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog
I've written about quite a few note-taking apps in my pursuit of the best one. Most shy away from the Post-It note paradigm because OS X comes with Stickies, a pretty decent representation of the repositionable note, but Memo takes it head-on. Memo is…
30 November 2011Planet Debian
I got home from work tonight and zfs had reported that one of the disks in my main pool was dying. no great problem. insert a disk i had spare, and run zpool replace like so: ganesh:~# zpool replace -f export scsi-SATA_WDC_WD10EARS-00_WD-WMAV50933036…
28 November 2011