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On Gizmodo: How To Be a Genius: This Is Apple’s Secret Employee Training Manual		30 Aug 12
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oh boy: gizmodo.com/5938323/how-to-be-a-genius-this-is-apples-secret-employee-training-manual

Bad Apple		31 Jul 09
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A good reason against buying an iphone. lifehacker.com/5324724/bad-apple-an-argument-against-buying-an-iphone Got to go back to running xfce on linux :-) and probably buy an android phone.

How to use Gmail or Yahoo web mail for mailto links		23 Jul 09
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If you are like me that you don’t want to use Apple Mail, nor install any other mailer. Oh well Claws is pretty decent, Thunderbird ok, too .. but sometimes a good old webmail account is handy, too :-). osxdaily.com/2007/03/09/how-to-use-gmail-or-yahoo-web-mail-for-mailto-links/

Utility to configure Google Calendar as CalDAV calendars in iCal		18 Jul 09
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Simple and works. Events get propagated from iCal to google calendar and vice versa. code.google.com/p/calaboration/

Ruby dictionary for OS X.		08 Feb 09
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Search your ruby docs via Spotlight/Dictionary. www.priithaamer.com/blog/ruby-dictionary-for-mac-os-x

Welcome in service hell!		29 Aug 08
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Imagine this .. I buy a mac mini online .. all goes well .. I get a confirmation code and wait and wait an no parcel arrives .. then I login and see the order is cancelled. Do you think they would bother to email or call me to tell me that they cancelled the order? Thank you Apple.

NeXT and NeXTStep		26 Jan 07
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A very long read about my old love :-).

Burning a cd from an iso image from the commandline

23 Jan 07

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OS X can do, it too :-) Insert a blank cd, and off it goes :-).

 hdiutil burn image.iso

 $ hdiutil  burn  KNOPPIX_V5.1.1CD-2007-01-04-EN.iso
 Preparing data for burn
 Opening session
 Opening track
 Writing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing track
 ..............................................................................
 Closing session
 ..............................................................................
 Finishing burn
 Verifying burn...
 Verifying
 ...............................................................................
 Burn completed successfully
 ...............................................................................
 hdiutil: burn: completed

Good old trusted linux does it with cdrecord :-)

 cdrecord  speed=2 dev=0,1,0 -data sol-9-install-sparc.iso

OSX filesystems		02 Oct 06
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Great link at kernelthread.com. I am playing with webdav in rails these days .. so I had to learn about webdav :-)

Fun with Spotlight

01 Mar 06

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Thank to Sven C. Koehler for the following scripts. He uses spotlight to datamine the Enron email data :-).

# convertEnronEmail

 #!/usr/bin/perl -0p
 s/^M//gsm;
 ($date) = /^(Date: [^\n]+)/sm;
 ($from) = /^From:\s*([^\n]+)/sm;
 print "From $from @{[scalar localtime]}\n";
 s/\Z/\n/;

#enronEmailsForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 mdfind "kMDItemTextContent == '${1+"$@"}'" | grep /enron/

#enronGrep

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs grep ${1+"$@"}

#enronMailBoxForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs -n+1 convertEnronEmail

#enronThreadForKeyword

 #! /bin/sh
 enronEmailsForKeyword ${1+"$@"} | xargs cat

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