Monthly Archives May 2007

links for 2007-05-31

The Sect of Homokaasu – The Rasterbator The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, print the resulting multi-page pdf file and assemble the pages into extremely cool looking poster up to 20 meters in size. (tags: printing Print picture Wallpaper wall graphics huge) Recover/repair a corrupt aes-encrypted sparse image (or [...]

links for 2007-05-27

ACE GALLERY | TARA DONOVAN Installation artist Tara Donovan?s hallmark is her use of ordinary mass-produced products in repetitive patterns and layering. Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden (tags: art gallery sculpture artist installation)

links for 2007-05-26

Extra Pepperoni » Markdown.cgi: Markdown in Apache httpd a very simple wrapper for Gruber’s Markdown.pl. Conceptually, my wrapper spits out an HTML header, uses Markdown.pl to render the requested page as (X)HTML, and then appends an (X)HTML footer. The reality is slightly more complicated, due to the vagarie (tags: markdown perl programming html text web [...]

links for 2007-05-25

instructables : How To Make Butter (and Buttermilk) I am about to reveal to you an ANCIENT butter making secret, to make butter it requires, shaking, shaking, shaking, MORE shaking, lots of shaking, but the end result is FANTASTIC. Homemade butter can be fun to make (if you are a butter enthusiast). (tags: food cooking [...]

links for 2007-05-24

No, Dave, it’s just you » Blog Archive » How good is your color? 24 bit vs 18 bit color gradient test (tags: monitor reference test display hardware color lcd)

links for 2007-05-19

Unixjunkie Blog: Pruning Empty Directories The quickest way I found to clean up all the empty directories was to have find do a depth-first traversal (-d) of the directory structure, then use rmdir, which only deletes empty directories. (tags: unix commandline terminal directory folder remove tools howto tool) Assorted Geekery : Blog Archive : Google [...]

links for 2007-05-18

iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface iftop does for network usage what top(1) does for CPU usage. It listens to network traffic on a named interface and displays a table of current bandwidth usage by pairs of hosts. Handy for answering the question “why is our ADSL link so slow?”. (tags: administration monitor monitoring [...]

links for 2007-05-17

Moving from Microsoft Office VBA to AppleScript: 0xED 0xED is a native OS X hex editor based on the Cocoa framework. (tags: editor text tool utilities macosx programming hex software development) MacLockPick – Live Forensics for OS X MacLockPick: extract clear-text passwords from a sleeping Mac by plugging in a USB dongle. (tags: macosx rescue [...]

links for 2007-05-16

CamelBones, an Objective-C/Perl bridge for Mac OS X Camel Bones is an Objective-C to Perl bridge which means you can use the underlying OS X system from perl to develop applications. (tags: code development gui macosx perl programming objC cocoa) HFSExplorer 0.17: Read Mac OS X Drives from Microsoft Windows | OgasaWalrus.com It was designed [...]

links for 2007-05-09

MaisonSonique Classic Sounds will bring back the classic alert sound panel of Mac OS 9 to your new MacOS X!It contains all those classic sounds like Quack and Wild Eep. It also can install the classic sounds in your macosx alert soundbank. (tags: sound mac osx classic system) Ukelele Ukelele is a Unicode Keyboard Layout [...]