Category: Mac

Making du report useful output for comparing across systems

You have to be a little careful using the du command to compare output across systems. For example, a few weeks ago I backed up a bunch of files from our MacBook Pro to our NAS and then was running du commands to verify that...

MacProgrammingPython

PyObjC and how to parse Preview.app bookmarks with Python

I wrote a Python program that parses Preview.app's bookmarks. The program itself is probably of dubious use, but it illustrates some interesting techniques like using class-dump to figure out how programs written in Objective-C...

Mac

Another OS X 10.6.7 kernel panic that seems to indicate Canon printer/scanner driver problems

This is at least the fourth or fifth time that I've had a OS X 10.6.7 kernel panic that said "BSD process name corresponding to current thread: Canon IJ Network" (what I just saw a few minutes ago on my work MBP) or "BSD process...

Mac

Workaround for TV show sorting bug in iOS 4.2

I downloaded a bunch of TV shows to our two iPhone 4's yesterday. Everything looked great on my iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.3), but the iPod application on Nicole's iPhone 4 (running iOS 4.2.1) showed the TV shows sorted incorrectly...

Mac

Quicksilver crash

I wasn't even using Quicksilver when this crash report popped up. Here's the text of the crash dump. This computer has been having a lot of kernel panics and crashing processes lately. I fear that it could be on the way out. Can...

GtDMacProductivity

Accessing OmniFocus data as a sqlite database

While playing with some OmniFocus AppleScripts last night, I realized that OmniFocus on the Mac uses a sqlite database (in addition to the zipped .xml files that it uses for synching). This is pretty interesting, because it could...

GtDMacProductivity

Top 5 OmniFocus Applescripts

I rely on OmniFocus (both the Mac and iPhone versions) to maintain some semblance of order in my life. I occasionally think of ideas for scripts to make OmniFocus for Mac fit better with my workflow, but I seldom have the time to...