Hacks
Building an Ubuntu Server for VMware
Ubuntu’s server distribution, with its tiny memory footprint, makes a really decent base setup for a VMware server machine. Using X11, you can even run the console on the server and have it remotely displayed to a Mac desktop (since there isn’t a native Mac console available). Here’s a decent walkthrough that will quickly take […]
Picasa Data API
Take a peek at Google’s new GData API for Picasa. In addition to providing RSS feeds for albums, tagged photos and user comments, you can use the API to add and remove photos, albums, comments and tags from your own applications. This might be a nice way to manage image data (and offload image storage) […]
Place OS X Dashboard Widgets on the Desktop
The F12 dashboard is one of my favorite features in OS X. If you have a widget that you use all the time, however, it’s sometimes a bit of a nuisance switching back and forth between the dashboard and your desktop. There’s a hidden dashboard feature that will allow you place dashboard widgets right on […]
vi Emulation for Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook
ViEmu is a cool add-in that brings vi/vim editing modes to several Windows apps, including Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook. It seems to have a lot of features that vi users are used to, and George V. Reilly (originator of the Win32 version of Vim, and currently releasing Win64 versions) has kind words for it: […]
iConcertCal – Track Upcoming Concerts in iTunes
iConcertCal is an iTunes plugin that pulls concert data for artists that you have in your music library and it will automatically generate a personal calendar of upcoming shows in your city. We wrote this plug-in in our spare time because we were tired of missing concerts for our favorite bands and we figured other […]
