Somedays I write more bugs than code…
I posted recently that I had started on Bites of Py Exercises, and i’m glad to say I have finished a few more. Small wins are good! Along the way i’ve discovered, thanks again to the Python Bytes...
View ArticleNibbling at Python
Learning Python has been on my radar for many years. I have made a start at it a few times. The shell scripts, Applescript and even the Hypercard stacks I made back in the day are very useful but not...
View ArticleUsing SMS URIs with OC Transpo
Ottawa’s OC Transpo service provides real-time bus schedules through text-messages on your cell phone. Basically you text 560560 your stop number, like 7595, with the option to specify a bus, like the...
View ArticleFun with SED!
(Found this sitting in my blog’s drafts folder.. only 11 years old but all of it still just as valid today!) A couple of shell scripts for renaming files on the command line. # Replaces JPG in any file...
View ArticleIntro to iOS: Thursday Dec. 6
Tom and I are doing another Intro class this Thursday, Dec. 6th, at 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Main Library Branch. The class is free but registration is required. Join us for an introduction iOS, the...
View ArticleIntro to Mac class – coming up!
Thanks to our work at ByMUG, Tom and I were approached in early January by a Digital Literacy Librarian at the Ottawa Public Library, and as a result we are offering Intro to Mac classes again.. The...
View ArticleCapture all tabs in Safari as URLs to the clipboard
Sometimes you’re doing research and have a pile of tabs (and windows) open and need to get them into a document to share with coworkers… so I went digging and tweaking and found an Applescript that...
View ArticlePrinting to PDF on iOS
It turns out to be super easy to print anything to a PDF on an iOS device! In the Share sheet from any app choose Print. The print preview dialog appears. Now instead of printing “pinch” on the print...
View ArticleLooking up Mac specs..
Did I mention I love TextExpander? Yeah.. so, to make a long story short: clients ask me questions about their computers, upgrades, lifespans, etc. I don’t normally remember all the details of their...
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Opening a pile of urls all at once — updated version!
A year or so ago I wrote a post on how to use xargs to open a bunch of urls that were in your clipboard. But it turns out that in newer versions of OS X something broke, deliberately or otherwise, and...
View ArticleAll about games..
There are a few places to get Mac games, other than the App Store. A few of the larger ones: Steam lists 2500 games for Mac. GOG or Good Old Games has 1297 games for Mac. macgamestore.com, has hundreds...
View ArticleOpen a pile of links in browser tabs, all at once!
One of things I occasionally do at work is to grab every url for a client’s domains/sites and open them up to eyeball them and see if anything obvious needs fixing. First I go and copy a list of all...
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Really? 2015 Already?
… and the worst part is I managed not to post anything all of last year. Not something i’m proud of! Well, i’ve got some ideas, so i’ll go work on those Cheers, Dave
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Desktop Pictures & Automator!
Some people call them wallpapers, I prefer desktop pictures… and I have a big collection of them. hmm. 336 of them in the current rotation, as of this article. I’ve been collecting them for at least a...
View Article1Password4 URL trick
There was a trick mentioned at our last ByMUG meeting to make using 1Password 4 on your iOS device a little easier. There are several ways you can modify a URL to make it open directly in 1Password:...
View ArticleDomain pain continued…
So I took a bit longer than expected to get back to the domain saga.. I went in this evening and pushed the domains from my eNomCentral account to my new retail account (which worked instantly) and...
View ArticleDomain Pain!
So I had a few domains left in my eNom account.. and I was slowly moving them out as they came up for renewal, and it came time to renew the last 2 domains. No problem, right? Well… I would not be...
View ArticleUsing Adobe Acrobat to view PDF’s in Safari 5.1.x and Mac OS X 10.6.8
Safari no longer displays PDF files.. and hasn’t done so on my machine for months. It does not bother me much, as I prefer to download them anyway, by clicking in the URL bar and then holding option...
View ArticleShuffling things around…
2012 is a year for changes, and the previous theme was feeling too complicated.. so I simplified again. Now installed, and tweaked to my liking, is the iFeature 4 Lite version by the folks at...
View ArticleHow to mount the Windows partition of a hybrid DVD
A client of mine has an older Lenovo laptop with a defective DVD drive. He’s saving for a MacBook Air rather than spend money fixing it! I downloaded the installer for his new Fujitsu ScanSnap so he...
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