Irrational Exuberance

Entries tagged with OS X

1. Title: Using Automator to Scale Images Horizontally
   Tags: OS X

   With ten minutes before bed and 35 megs of images to scale, I had my first encounter with Automator. It was a good encounter, and I heartily recommend it to others for--at minimum--batch scaling images.

2. Title: Poor Wireless Connectivity for MacBook
   Tags: OS X fail

   Quick posting of my solution to extremely poor wireless connectivity on my MacBook.

3. Title: Introducing Kappa, a Twitter Client
   Tags: Kappa OS X

   After beginning work yesterday, I believe that there is the raw material for an useful Twitter client in this application (OS X 10.5 required), although there is certainly a good bit of cruft remaining as well. Give Kappa a whirl and let me know how it goes.

4. Title: Epic PyObjC, Part 5: Resources and Farewell
   Tags: Cocoa OS X PyObjC python
   Series: An Epic Introduction to PyObjC

   This brief final segment of the Epic PyObjC tutorial series looks at a few statistics from the series, and also I recommend a few resources for moving forward.

5. Title: Epic PyObjc, Part 4: Drag & Drop, Multiple Nibs
   Tags: Cocoa OS X PyObjC python
   Series: An Epic Introduction to PyObjC

   In this fourth segment of the Epic PyObjC tutorial we take a look at implementing drag and drop in two different ways, as well as using multiple nibs in one application. This is the final segment of Epic PyObjC that focuses on this project; the fifth one will be a collection of resources about continuing with Cocoa and PyObjC.

6. Title: Epic PyObjC, Part 3: Browsing, Caching, Indicating
   Tags: Cocoa OS X PyObjC python
   Series: An Epic Introduction to PyObjC

   In this third segment of the Epic Introduction to PyObjC and Cocoa we spend some time in the standard application development workflow of iterating new idea from concept into feature. First, we have double clicking an entry open its page on FreeBase.com, then add disk based caching of results, and we end by adding an indicator to reassure users that the app hasn't frozen while retrieving data from Metaweb.

7. Title: On The Causes and Cures of Malware
   Tags: Microsoft OS X

   Thoughts on the John Gruber's suggested 40-40-20 split between Windows, Linux and OS X on the propagation of malware.