Month: January 2011

MozyHome – The Never-Ending Backup

I've been wanting to look at online backup for a while to backup photos and music and such and to supplement local measures like using a ReadyNAS with RAID and having some spare hard drives for backups. The other day I signed up...

General

Thanks, Lutron

We have Lutron switches and dimmers throughout our home. A few weeks ago one of the rocker switches on one of our Maestro MAW-603 3-way dimmers physically broke and became wobbly. I was worried because these switches can be...

General

iTunes 10 (Mac) won’t burn to my external DVD writer

My MacBook Pro has a built-in DVD writer (which I have not had success using lately) and I also just purchased a Samsung SE-S084D External USB DVD Writer, because of my trouble burning DVDs with the internal drive. I've got the...

Python

Python Evaluator AppleScript

A few weeks ago, I talked about a Bash function and alias combo that lets you evaluate simple Python expressions from the Bash command-line. In a similar vein, here's a super simple GUI app, written in AppleScript that evaluates...

Python

Creating a gist from the command-line

GitHub's Gist API doesn't yet have an API call for creating a new gist. So to write a command-line utility to create gists, I had to do a little old-fashioned screen scraping with Python and mechanize....

Mac

OS X service for posting text to pastebin.com

How I created an OS X service to post text to pastebin.com: I launched Automator and chose the "Service" template for my new workflow. I dragged in a "Run AppleScript" action and pasted in this AppleScript code. I then dragged in...

Python

django-admin.py patch to add warning for missing “startproject” subcommand.

A while back, I mentioned that django-admin.py will not show the "startproject" command if you have a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable set. This behavior is documented, but it can still confuse the heck out of anyone...