Posts in category “Mac”:

Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3 Flash Applications (v.2+)

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, Mac, Programming | 75 Comments

So I’ve finally updated the solution I’ve made earlier for enabling Mac OS X mouse wheel support in Flex applications to a second version. I didn’t want to continue adding stuff into the original post, so I decided to write a separate post just for this new version. As you can see from the title, [...]

Automatic, Periodic Syncing with iSync

Posted on April 17, 2008
Filed under Mac, Scripts | 4 Comments

The first time I decided I wanted to start synchronizing my cell phone’s calendar and address book with my Mac’s, I noticed how iSync doesn’t have a system of automatically invoking the synchronization procedure between regular intervals. I wanted to have the sync invoked automatically every 30 minutes, so I figured I had to do [...]

Going Back to the Origin of a Downloaded File

Posted on March 21, 2008
Filed under Mac, Scripts | Leave a Comment

One of the biggest reasons why I prefer to use Safari as my web browser of choice on OS X is its integration with the rest of the operating system, a quite recent example of which is the tagging of downloaded files with Spotlight metadata about the location where they were downloaded from. In the [...]

Fixing the Nokia N82 iSync Plug-In

Posted on March 4, 2008
Filed under Mac, Miscallaneous | 39 Comments

I Recently updated my cell phone to a Nokia N82. The most positive points about it are the relative snappiness of the user interface (most Symbian S60 devices are dog slow in that department) and the quite exhaustive feature list. The build quality feels alright and the camera takes excellent pictures for a phone. One [...]

Keeping AirPort Connected to a Specific Access Point

Posted on February 23, 2008
Filed under Mac, Scripts | 2 Comments

The wireless LAN access point we have at our house is an old Belkin box that only supports the 802.11b standard, which is the slowest of the few “versions” of WiFi. The speed hasn’t been a big issue — we rarely need to move large files over the internal network, and if we do, we [...]

A “Go to Parent of Current Folder” Toolbar Button for Finder

Posted on January 10, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 6 Comments

Although the updated version introduced with Leopard significantly improves upon the one in Tiger, I still think Mac OS’s Finder is lacking in several departments. I Don’t feel “at home” with separate file managers (Path Finder or ForkLift, for example — even though I do own a license to the latter, I only use it [...]

Growlnotify Leopard Incompatibility Workaround

Posted on January 2, 2008
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 32 Comments

I Have a bunch of custom shell scripts that I use for various things, and most of them use the growlnotify utility that is distributed with Growl to display messages to the user. Unfortunately, as of this writing, growlnotify has some issues with Leopard and thus messages sent through it will be displayed only intermittently [...]

An Application Bundle / Shell Script for Starting and Stopping the Tomcat Server

Posted on October 3, 2007
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 2 Comments

I’ve recently had to install tomcat on my localhost to continue developing the Flex application I’m currently doing at work since it connects to web services that are implemented in Java. I wanted an easy way to start and stop the tomcat server, so I made this nice little app for it with the help [...]

Flex SDK Language Reference Helper Macro for jEdit

Posted on October 1, 2007
Filed under ActionScript 3, Flex, jEdit, Mac, Programming | Leave a Comment

VeryVito at turdhead.com has been writing lately about customizing jEdit for writing ActionScript, which is exactly what I’ve also been doing. A While ago he posted macros for referencing the help files that came with Flash CS3. Well, I don’t have Flash CS3, and I use the Flex SDK to do my ActionScripting, so I [...]

The Mac Applications I Use and Recommend

Posted on September 17, 2007
Filed under Featured, Mac | 9 Comments

I’ve long though about documenting the slew of applications I’ve accustomed myself to using on my Macbook, but I’ve never really gotten around to it until now. The main reason I have for writing this kind of a list is to document these things on a remote server (or preferably several – Google, I’m looking [...]


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