Flex Myths
I found a very nice article about misconceptions of flex, it talks 10 main points I hear everywhere, like: Users Need to Install Something New to Run Flex Applications, Flex is Not for Enterprise / Business Applications, Flash is for Designers, Video, and Annoyances, etc.
You should read it and pass it…
http://www.swfflex.com/blog/1/2008/01/Top-10-Flex-Misconceptions.cfm
12.16.08Multiple Language in Pages
I really hate having the OS in spanish (as probably you don’t know, I’m in mexico), because the translation is made by spain, and I really hate the style. So every OS I have is in english, the problem became in pages, because it gets the global language settings.
But sometimes I want to write in spanish, so I managed to put several languages in pages, so you have to select the desired text to be written in a different language, and in the inspector > text > more you can have the language…
see the screen:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20050206093713234
12.10.08Visual representation of your hard disk
Hey everyone, I’ve found a very useful utility, its for seeing a visual representation of the files in the disk, this is very helping for finding large files in strange places…
A definitely must have to any download-any-from-internet person, like me
http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
12.2.08Sync iCal -> Google Calendar (and the other way around)
Last week, we iCal users were relegated to second class Google calendar synchronization, but not anymore, finally, google released a mac sincronization tool, even with multiple calendars, so go, get it, and syncronize your life with google !!!
http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2008/11/syncing-your-google-calendar.html
Control Mac OS X Services
For a time I was looking a way to start/stop services (daemons) in Mac OS X, I even think about making one, but I found a programmer who already made one, and a very good one.
So, if you are a little extremist (like me) and what to start or stop services at your will, you need this program:
http://www.hanynet.com/iservebox/index.html
11.26.08Network Load Balancing in Mac OSX ?
I’m currently in a personal project in implementing network load balancing in Mac OSX, in my google-investigation I couldn’t find any native solutions, anybody had tried something like this?
I was starting to think about porting some solutions of freebsd, but I don’t think I had enough knowledge to do this, as a matter of fact, I don’t even know how they do it in freeBSD.
I’m starting to investigate pfsense, I think its a good candidate for 2 reasons, 1. it’s based in freeBSD (like Mac OS X), and 2. I’m a former user, and I think its very stable and functional, you should consider it if you need a gateway.
What do you think, Anybody had tried this? Anybody interested? any ideas ?
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Exploring Mac Partitions(HFS+) from Windows
A good friend and I were trying to transfer a very large file to his computer, I only had hfs+ external hard drives, so we found this useful program, it works, not talking about mounting a partition, but enough to transfer the files
The software claims it can read HFS, HFS+ and HFSX, but I only test the HFS+… so tell me if someone has this working with a HFSX..
check it out:
Listen FLAC, SHN in Mac OS X… without messing with iTunes
If you want to listen to “exotic” (such as FLAC, SHN or even MP3) audio formats in a mac, you can use Cog, it’s an open source audio player…
It might not be pretty, or have visualizers, or transcoding, but its fast and simple, I commonly use it to “test” the audio I got from concerts to later get them to my ipod.
You can have it here:
11.16.08Skinning flex components
sometimes when you are customizing the UI of a flex component you just want to make small changes and you don’t need a lot of help, but sometimes you need to tweak it completely, so adobe, like many things, create a lot of tools and, mortal people like me doesn’t know about those…
but a friend tell me one !!!, the style style explorer, check it out
http://examples.adobe.com/flex3/consulting/styleexplorer/Flex3StyleExplorer.html#
11.10.08Disable iTunes “Store Links” in iTunes 8
I found this to disable the horrible store links in itunes 8:
defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE
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