Category Archives: OS X

OS X: Console Login

How to log into your OS X machine without starting the window-system.

iTunes: How to Print a Jewel Case Insert

You can print an inlay for your CD-jewelcase, using iTunes it gets even easier.

Ruby: Simple Calculation of Billable Time using Epoch-Seconds

Two simple Ruby-scripts to calculate time in epoch-seconds.

OS X: More than one E-Mail Address in a Single Account

How to switch sender-addresses in OS X Mail.

Simple Calculation of Billable Time using epoch-seconds

How-To: A quick and dirty way to record billable time while away from your own machines.

Getting the current time in epoch-seconds

How-To: Getting the current time in epoch-seconds in your shell and converting them back to human-readable time.

InDesign CS3 and a case-sensitive Filesystem?

Just to spare you, dear InDesign CS3-(would-be-)installer, some grief: If you dared to use the “case-sensitive, journaled” option for your OS X system-partition and you want to install InDesign CS3 on said system, let go of all hope! You’ll have to re-install your OS (and everything you added to it), because ID CS3 won’t play [...]

Using sed to transform XML to be displayed in HTML

One way to display XML in HTML without wrecking your Web site.

CouchDB, Database re-invented?

A document-centric, replicating database written in an object-oriented language called Erlang, sounds great.

AppleScript: How to split a string

Sadly, AppleScript lacks a function to split a string into its contents by using a defined character as delimiter. Here’s a handler to tackle the problem.