Had problem in writing files to my external harddisk with NTFS format through Snow Leopard. In some forum, expert recommended to use free utility tools like: iNTFS and NTFS mounter Write files to NTFS drive is actually supported by Snow Leopard but this functionality is not enabled by default. The above utility tools are useful …
Category Archive: Mac OS
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Mar
31
Installing new font in Mac OS X and Window
Font can be downloaded from http://www.1001freefonts.com/medieval-fonts.php (NOTE: Commercial use need to have license) Mac OS X: Download the font for Mac OS X Double click on the downloaded font (.ttf extension), “Font Book” will be opened and click on “Install Font” Window: Download the font for Window Go to “Control Panel” and click on “Fonts”. …
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Dec
02
Fasinator 0.3 – Watcher 0.3 – ICE week
Soo what have I been doing lately? The Fascinator Desktop The Fascinator 0.3 Desktop was released 3 weeks ago. Features implemented in The Fascinator 0.3 Desktop can be found in: http://fascinator.usq.edu.au/trac/wiki/tf2/Version0.3.0 P.S: for new features and enhancements request for The Fascinator 0.4 can be found in: http://fascinator.usq.edu.au/trac/wiki/tf2/Planning So what are the features have been implemented …
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Sep
03
Mac OS X Snow Leopard
Installed Snow Leopard! Mmm my mac performance is better and faster Woo hoo so far so good! Scared if my aperture would have issue after installation, but turn out everything is good!
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Jul
02
Add java path to Eclipse (Mac/Ubuntu)
Sometimes when you have more than one version of java running in your computer, Eclipse will get confuse and will not run properly especially when your JAVA_HOME is set to the java version that Eclipse does not like (sound like human). To add java version to Eclipse: Exit your eclipse Locate your eclipse.ini file in …
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Jun
15
MAC OS X – FS Watcher for The Fascinator Desktop
When a file is created, modified or deleted in MAC OS X, knotify will notify Spotlight to re-index and extract the metadata and data contents of the file. All the indexed information is stored in .Spotlight directory on the root directory. In my previous blog post, Linux-FS watcher, I mentioned that i used sqlite to …
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Apr
11
Convert lit to html format
I found a few ebooks downloaded from Internet in .lit extension (Microsoft proprietary ebook format). As a mac user, I can’t open this file. Most of the time in the past, I will just did not bother to download or read the book. But since my favourite books also in this format. I do not …
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Feb
07
Facebook Online using Adium/pidgin
Maybe this is old story…. but for those who does not know… and you are Facebook fanatic like… *me*, you can actually go online through Adium or Pidgin. Adium is a cool Mac software that allows you to go online with all your different IM accounts. After uses Adium for quite sometimes, when I use …
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Feb
06
Nice Thumbnail
Recently I have been dealing with images…. from work and from home. At work, I wrote a function to convert and resize transparent gif image to png using Python Imaging. Some of the test code can be found in my previous blog. At home, I have been playing with iPhoto to Facebook plugin. This plugin …
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Nov
01
Installing php gettext in Mac Leopard
I was trying to get phpldapadmin work in my Mac, I get this error: undefined function _() Search through website, I need gettext extension to be installed as php extension. This is the useful website to get gettext work in Leopard: Adding Gettext Extension for Mac OS X Leopard NOTE from installation steps: Even though …
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