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This week I gave a presentation on topic of Open Source and Mac OS X and how it affects your life as a Mac user. While the initial idea was to talk about Open Source alternatives on OS X, I quickly discovered that this might not be the best thing to talk about. The issue […]
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Some time after installing Leopard OS X 10.5 and second set of updats for iWork 08 the Keynote Application started crashing on start. Crash report said the following: Process: Keynote [3724] Path: /Applications/iWork ’08/Keynote.app/Contents/MacOS/Keynote Identifier: com.apple.iWork.Keynote Version: 4.0 (591) Build Info: Keynote-5910000~3 Code Type: X86 (Native) Parent Process: launchd [152] Date/Time: 2008-02-17 15:32:34.960 +0000 OS […]
The Eclipse project, providing a powerful IDE editor, has a smart download page that detects what kind of platform you are on related to that suggests you download page. The only problem is that in the process they fail to clearly communicate download links. Screenshot with important areas highlighted is as such: What happened here […]
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Saturday I visited BarCamp – Sezna Confini 2008, user generated conference, that was organized in Klagenfurt. Besides giving a presentation on Zemanta, I also made some interesting notes from some of the presentations that I’m sharing below. In the first session “Time & ideas for bloggingâ€, we heard from the authors of So Isses blog. […]
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Just a quick tip for an issue that drew me insane for last couple of weeks. When you upgrade to Leopard suddenly you don’t see anymore the CUPS printers on your network. The reason for this is that Apple decided to disable some browsing protocols. You need to manually edit /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and add BrowseProtocols all […]
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Last week I had a chance to visit a workshop on creating Graffitis with Lasers, also called Laser Tags, organized by Luka Frelih @ Ljudmila. The idea itself is “simple” enough. Take the laser with its motor out of CD-ROM and build a connector for its motor so you can connect it to Arduino. Afterwards […]
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One of the perks of living in such a big city as London are all the interesting events a Web developer/entrepreneur can easily visit. Even if you do not live there, it is still worth timing your visit so you can visit them. MiniBar occurs monthly where a number of startups pitch their ideas to the visiting […]
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Coming from Python world where most of text is in double apostrophes like: “Hello world” to JavaScript where, e.g. jQuery , expects you to write: $(‘#foobar’) with single quotes, it can be quite annoying to always have to type it twice, since for double quotes (“), TextMate it always does it automatically. This feature is […]
So Web 2.0 Expo Berlin happened with a bit of puff and made a nice little dent into European Web 2.0 scene. Despite my early doubts it turned out that it was actually one of the best tech conferences I was at. Even their social network CrowdWine almost worked it. Since the conference venue was […]
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A few days before upgrading to Leopard, I stumbled upon a great Mac application called AppFresh, that automatically reads your Applications for installed apps, checks them against iUseThis to see if newer version is available and then conveniently allows you to download updates directly from its interface without having to hunt the .dmg file around […]