Safari Adblock without losing performance
Ok, i guess everybody noticed that importing adserver lists from websites like yoyo brings down most input managers for Safari. Even the userContent.css from floppymoose is slowing down the tab...
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http-tunnel via ssh for Windows XP and Mac OS X
I’ve been using the bitvise Tunnelier for quite some time now in Windows XP and it is a real pleasure to use this easy tool. For Mac OS X i couln’t find a tool like that until i came to the SSH Tunnel...
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FLAC and OGG support for iTunes - import and play
Well, i wanted to import my .ogg and .flac into iTunes but … you know the story. After 2 days of trying to compile amarok with kde3 and making it run natively with quartz-wm, i gave up. The next day i...
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HowTo get Front Row 1.3 working on 10.4.8 AMD/Intel
After trying so many tutorials and installing so many tools i finally made it. Front Row 1.3 is running smoothly on my 10.4.8 AMD , and no illegal hacks were needed. At first i tried this Front Row...
View ArticleThe Random OS X crashes …
I hate it when there starts a hidden process in the background, your hdd’s start spinning and rumbling and you don’t know whats happening. That doesn’t only happen in Linux (amarok http cache cleaner)...
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My favorite Image Viewer for Windows
In the old days I was a big fan of ACDSee 4.0 , but it lacks of proper RAW support, because I always had problems with their buggy RAW plugin. The following versions became slower and slower and...
View ArticleWordpress: blog images via email
Sometimes it is not that easy to tell people how to use wordpress admin interface for writing posts or even upload images. Sometimes you have to make it even simpler than simple. I was looking into...
View ArticlePHP::PEAR installation problems
I tried to install the Cache package for PEAR on Mac OS X 10.4.8 ( xampp installed ). Got the error message: No handlers for package.xml version 2.0 Found the following solution: pear upgrade --force...
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pixelpost template: macstyle v1.2
I’ve just released this template for pixelpost v1.6. Features: minimalistic design like iWeb’s black theme slide-out panel for comments photo strip with modified Reflection.js by neondragon slideshow...
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Monitor Color Calibration for free using your DSLR
Color perception is subject to ambient light levels, and the ambient white point. (A red object looks black in blue light.) It is therefore not possible to achieve calibration that will be perceived...
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Webkit the better Safari
I just came to Webkit. At first it looked like a new browser to me like Shiira or OmniWeb. But than somebody told me it is just the "thing" behind the scenes that drives lots of browsers on OS X. So I...
View ArticleCSS: 100% percent height
I wanted a css design with 100% height for some recent project. The middle centered column should just fill the whole page in height without forcing scroll bars. But somehow its buggy on a few...
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Parallels Desktop cannot be installed on this Computer
Got this error message when I tried to install Parallels Desktop Build 3188 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 . Parallels Desktop cannot be installed on this Computer. Make sure your system meets the requirements....
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HowTo convert bin/cue to iso in Mac OS X
Since Parallels doesn’t like .bin/.cue images, i had to convert it into an .iso image. A few guides pointed out that simple renaming of the files might be enough, but that didn’t work at all. So i was...
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Lightroom Post-Processing with Photoshop Actions
In my case i wanted to apply some extra sharpening after Lightroom exported some RAW files. But if you want, you can apply this tutorial to any other Photoshop actions: framing, noise reduction and...
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Lightroom Post-Processing with ImageMagick
This time i wanted to post-process my exported Lightroom images without opening Photoshop. So i decided to use ImageMagick which has helped me before in lots of other situations. The task was to...
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My favorite Image Viewer for Mac OS X
In one of my earlier posts i was talking about my favorite image viewer for windows. So far i’ve been using PicturePopProCM 2 for viewing pictures instantly fullscreen out of the finder. But there were...
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Mac OS x86 10.5.2 on AMD SSE2 the challenge
On of my HDD’s crashed and my old 10.4.6 install was on that drive. Of course I do create backups of all my data regularly and nothing was lost but time. So I thought I could try Leopard on this...
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Flex SDK with Actionscript 3 using webservices
Coming back to coding Actionscript after a while I noticed that you got to fix more and more bugs over the years of Flash development. Yes there were many limitations with AS1.0 and AS2.0 using...
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Qt4/C++ Development with Leopard
I got tired again of developing in Windows XP. Since my Vista destroyed itself within a micro second XP was my last hope. I thought it must be possible to code stuffs in Mac OS X Leopard too. I tried...
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Smooth video playback in Mac OS X Snow Leopard
In Windows 7 I’m using Shark007’s codec pack along with the 64-bit components. Special codecs like nvidia purevideo, CoreAVC or the Cyberlink 264/AVC codec help you to get real smooth HD playback....
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HowTo disable spellchecking in SRWare Iron (Chromium) for OS X
If you like Chrome and use Snow Leopard it is quite hard to surf without sending all kinds of statistics to google. In Windows there has always been a proper alternative named Iron. Lately I found this...
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HowTo get the Xbox Controller S working in Windows 7 (64-Bit)
To get the usb connected Xbox Controller S working in Windows XP was quite easy using the XBCD drivers. But installing them on a Windows 7 (64 Bit) system was quite a challenge due to the lack of...
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Improving vlc’s .mkv playback in Mac OS X
When loading big .mkv files(like 3-5Gb) into VLC with hd content and maybe even subtitle tracks you’ll notice slow loading times. You’ll although notice that OS X is building up a huge pagefile because...
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The Ultimate Audio Guide for Mac OS X 10.6
I thought if I was able to play .flac files in iTunes I got the maximum audio quality out of my iMac. If you are interested in how to achieve this, read this post. Later I found fluke which made life a...
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