Playing with geektool (first the lyrics)
I always work with music, and I sometimes like to sing, so I want to see the lyrics of the current song, without opening itunes, and then the properties, so I use the Geektool project (a little old, but it works wih 64bits kernel), this app, will enable you to run commands and put the output on the wallpaper, you can see a lot cool screenshots on the developer site.
I will stick on the basics, I only want my lyrics (and some ps ax info).
So this scripts will help you to do this, there are 3, “itunes_artist_lyrics.sh” will get you both artist name/title and lyrics, and “itunes_artist.sh” will get you only the artist name/title, and itunes_lyrics.sh will get you the lyrics (if you want to run it on different output windows). By the way, this script don’t open itunes if it’s not running .
You can download it here -> (or download the git repository)
http://github.com/warstories/Geektool-Scripts
If you don’t want to clone the git repository, I added you a zip on github:
Download release 1.0 from git
This is a screenshot on how I show the lyrics, may be simple, but It works :
(you can se the lyrics on the left, some process information on the center, and the day on the right just above the watermark)
Next time I will try to load the artist cover and get it on the desktop with geektool, but for now, lets just listen to Arctic Monkeys, 505 (I can’t stop listening this song).
09.21.09Psychedelic process
I really like this process, To bad is not 64 bit xD
lsd process in snow leopard
Flex 3 / SVN plugin (subclipse) / change credentials / OS X
For a complex reason I couldn’t understand the SVN plugin of eclipse don’t have an interface for delete/update users for repositories, so if you want to change you current user you actually have to delete the “keyring”, that is a special file where eclipse saves all the login information of your repositories… yes… all the passwords.
So after a search in google with no luck, I found that the location of the configuration files:
@user.home/Documents/Flex Builder 3/configuration
BUT BEWARE READER….
All the configuration files are stored in hidden files, and I mean the filename starts with a “.” dot, if you go to the finder you will find nothing… apparently… you actually had to dig in your terminal skills (or configure the finder to show hidden files), and delete the damn file:
.keyring
And eclipse will ask for passwords again…
The worst thing… you had to enter ALL your passwords again.
09.14.09CDU-680 + Snow Leopard
Well the short answer, it works, but in the 32 bit kernel, it only gets the red led on 64 bit kernel.
I have searched around google and the Franklin Wireless page and found nothing, so I decided to install, ( I had a clean snow leopard), and it works.
I searched here:
http://www.fklt.com/support.php
There’s nothing in the forums or in the page about snow leopard support, so I think the 64 future is uncertain, only time can tell.
So if you are willing to sacrifice the great 64 bit performance for 3G connectionm go ahead, it will work
09.9.09Mysql 5.1.38 No mountable file systems / Snow Leopard 64bit Kernel
So… you finally decide to search in google about this problem, it took me 5 tries, before doing it.
So the short answer… the image for mysql is UDF, and appears like the UDF driver is still 32 bits, and I guess if you are here, is because you are running on the 64bit kernel…
Well this is the price for early adopters, you have to boot in 32 bits kernel to be able to mount it on snow leopard
Long history, and a linux workaround (?):
http://forums.mysql.com/read.php?11,278794,278794#msg-278794
09.6.09OSX Firewire external hard drive disconnecting
Most of the Mac users did a brave thing last week, we all upgrade our OS to the latest and snowiest leopard in town… some of us with mixed luck…
The thing that I had troubles with, is a beautiful firewire 800 external disk drive (a gift from a very good friend), appears since I upgraded begun to disconnect randomly, but with a twist, when it was connected via USB, nothing happen.
I had to tell that I did a clean install of snow leopard (yes you can do it with the upgrade disk).
When I remember that setting, I realize that all my setting were wiped, so I look into the energy preference panel, and there was my answer, the option “Put the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible” was selected, seems like its a firewire disk it actually sends the sleep command.
I disable it for the battery and power adapter profile and my problem was fixed.
Hope this helps to save some time for someone in google.
07.16.09MultiSafari (not a multiple-zoo)
During the stage of css/html testing you have to test with multiple web browsers and operating systems.
Unfortunately in Mac OS X its a little difficult to have multiple Safari versions, since the Webkit framework is what is updated and webkit is system-wide, you can’t have both at the same time…
Until I discover this clever man, who embed the webkit in an app, so you can have your own safari 3 and safari 4 running on your mac… so you can test everything … go and download it, you will never regret it:
http://michelf.com/projects/multi-safari/
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
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