VNC 1.5
I tried an earlier version of this, it was too slow to use. I'll try again!
Friday, February 04, 2005
Service Manager for Mac OS X (via Macintouch)
Service Manager
From Macintouch: "[Nigel Warren] Mac OS X does not provide a built-in method for [removing items from the Service menu], unfortunately, but there is a great little piece of free software that does, Service Manager. I've used it for a year or so without a problem and find it very useful. It lets you turn services off and on, as well as letting you reassign their keyboard shortcuts and arrange them in any submenu of the services menu that you like."
From Macintouch: "[Nigel Warren] Mac OS X does not provide a built-in method for [removing items from the Service menu], unfortunately, but there is a great little piece of free software that does, Service Manager. I've used it for a year or so without a problem and find it very useful. It lets you turn services off and on, as well as letting you reassign their keyboard shortcuts and arrange them in any submenu of the services menu that you like."
Thursday, February 03, 2005
iPhoto aliases are not -- they're relative symlinks
macosxhints - Use symbolic links instead of aliases on the desktop
When you browse an iPhoto Library file tree, you see that albums are instantiated as folders. Each folder contains what appears to be an alias.
Only they're not.
If you copy an iPhoto album, the aliases reference images in the tree of the copied album, they don't reference the original files.
A true OS X alias would reference the original File ID, not the ID of the copied file. (This worked better in OS 9, changing a file extension in OS X will break an alias even if the File ID doesn't change, this Mac OS X hints page has a good discussion.)
What appear to be iPhoto aliases are in fact relative symlinks. I copied one to the desktop and noticed it lost its icon. Then when running ls -l from the terminal one finds:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jgf staff 29 3 Feb 18:23 IMG_2523.JPG -> ../../2003/07/13/IMG_2523.JPG
I'm not a unix guy, but I think lrwxr is the signature of a typical symlink. That's why one can copy an iPhoto Library and not have the whole thing fall apart.
When you browse an iPhoto Library file tree, you see that albums are instantiated as folders. Each folder contains what appears to be an alias.
Only they're not.
If you copy an iPhoto album, the aliases reference images in the tree of the copied album, they don't reference the original files.
A true OS X alias would reference the original File ID, not the ID of the copied file. (This worked better in OS 9, changing a file extension in OS X will break an alias even if the File ID doesn't change, this Mac OS X hints page has a good discussion.)
What appear to be iPhoto aliases are in fact relative symlinks. I copied one to the desktop and noticed it lost its icon. Then when running ls -l from the terminal one finds:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 jgf staff 29 3 Feb 18:23 IMG_2523.JPG -> ../../2003/07/13/IMG_2523.JPG
I'm not a unix guy, but I think lrwxr is the signature of a typical symlink. That's why one can copy an iPhoto Library and not have the whole thing fall apart.
Wednesday, February 02, 2005
Bug in Google's identity management: Gmail and Groups
Google Groups
Google has a bug in their identity management.
1. Log into Gmail.
2. Switch to Google groups.
3. Create a post.
4. OOPS. Don't want to put my Gmail address on Usenet! Good catch Google. Ok, click on the option to use other account.
5. Uh-Oh. Screen allows one only to CREATE another account, not to use one that already exists.
6. Go back -- lose all post content.
It's a bug! Of course there's no way to report this to Google.
Here's another one.
Reply to a post in Google Groups. Get a dialog to login. Login. Lose the contents of what one posted. (Firefox 1.0)
Google has a bug in their identity management.
1. Log into Gmail.
2. Switch to Google groups.
3. Create a post.
4. OOPS. Don't want to put my Gmail address on Usenet! Good catch Google. Ok, click on the option to use other account.
5. Uh-Oh. Screen allows one only to CREATE another account, not to use one that already exists.
6. Go back -- lose all post content.
It's a bug! Of course there's no way to report this to Google.
Here's another one.
Reply to a post in Google Groups. Get a dialog to login. Login. Lose the contents of what one posted. (Firefox 1.0)
Monday, January 31, 2005
Paste equations into OS X Calculator.app
macosxhints - Paste equations into Calculator.app
Calculator and Graphing Calculator are very interesting but obscure applications.
Calculator and Graphing Calculator are very interesting but obscure applications.
Keyword Assistant for iPhoto: Updated for iPhoto 5
Software
The previous version caused problems during iPhoto 4 udpates, the new version runs on 4.03 and 5. I'm staying with iPhoto 4.03 unless Apple fixes iPhoto 5's performance and reliability issues, but I may try this update.
Keyword in iPhoto are odd. On the one hand they work well with SmartAlbums and they're well preserved in Library merges. On the other hand the native UI for managing keywords is weirdly awful. This helps a bit.
The previous version caused problems during iPhoto 4 udpates, the new version runs on 4.03 and 5. I'm staying with iPhoto 4.03 unless Apple fixes iPhoto 5's performance and reliability issues, but I may try this update.
Keyword in iPhoto are odd. On the one hand they work well with SmartAlbums and they're well preserved in Library merges. On the other hand the native UI for managing keywords is weirdly awful. This helps a bit.
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