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Mac Open Source Software
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Continue reading â: Mac Open Source Software“Darwin Ports”:http://darwinports.com/ automatically downloads open source projects over the Internet and compiles and installs them on your Mac. Means the whole world of 40 years of unix tools is available with a single command line on your computer. (BTW, Darwin is the name of the core operating system under Mac…
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Camcoder recommendations
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Continue reading â: Camcoder recommendationsI’ve told people that if they can, they should wait on buying a camcorder, the move to HD is happening in fits and starts with the usual teething problems. Right now, it looks like the third generation camcorders may finally get it right. There are two leading contenders: * “Canon…
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mp3 tagger
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Continue reading â: mp3 taggerOK, I use Tritag for making my mp3s have nice tags, but it doesn’t have either lyric finding or artwork finding. “Mactags.blogspot.com”:http://mactags.blogspot.com if you can believe it actually has a review of all Mac based MP3 taggers (talk about narrowcasting). Here are some good recommendations: “MP3-Info”:http://mactags.blogspot.com/2007/02/important-mp3-renamer-i-forgot-to.html. This lets you right…
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Mac Flac Converter
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Continue reading â: Mac Flac Converter“Flac”:http://flac.sourceforge.net is an format that is lossless, so you get the original quality of the recording. I almost never see it, but if you do, use “xACT”:http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21952 to convert it to AIFF, the Apple lossless format or to MP3 with Lame, the best encoder.
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Sun Valley
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Continue reading â: Sun ValleyI’ve never been there, but its a fabled mountain. Like most it is really big and it is great to get a “guide”:http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/travel/escapes/22sun-valley.html so you don’t waste lots of time. The season lasts trhough the third week of April so there is plenty of spring skiing left. Some suggestions from…
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iPhone and iPod downloading
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Continue reading â: iPhone and iPod downloadingNow that there are so many devices and I’m using a laptop with a small hard drive (80GB), it is really hard to keep iTunes synced because you need to use half disk just to keep music, so you really want to have iPod or iPhone have its own libary…
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Importing MovableType 3.32 entries into 4.1
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Continue reading â: Importing MovableType 3.32 entries into 4.1OK, here are some gotchas when you have 3000 entries like me: # My hoster, Bluehost.com, seems to have some sort of limit. Or maybe it is MT that does, so only about 2,000 entries actually import properly. Unlike WordPress, you need to specify ahead of time what is the…
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Mac Scanning
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Continue reading â: Mac ScanningOK, now I’m going to retire our old ASUS laptop I use for scanning images with an old Minolta DiImage 5400 (now discontinued, but still very functional as a 5400 dpi slide and film scanner). Fortunately, the really great “VueScan”:http://www.hamerick.com is available in a Macintosh version, so I don’t lose…
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Continue reading â: Old tongfamily links back up
OK, it took some time to realize that my backup of the original tongfamily.com on MovableType were incomplete. I didn’t get anything from the old root directory that was past index.php (strange since I don’t recall deleting anything from the original share, but somehow all kinds of things are missing).…
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