With iTunes, it’s really easy to make your music and video libraries available so that you can view them from another machine. For whatever reason, though, the good folks at Apple didn’t add an option to track who is viewing your library or see what they are listening to. Last month, I mentioned the *nix […]
Ubuntu’s server distribution, with its tiny memory footprint, makes a really decent base setup for a VMware server machine. Using X11, you can even run the console on the server and have it remotely displayed to a Mac desktop (since there isn’t a native Mac console available). Here’s a decent walkthrough that will quickly take […]
Take a peek at Google’s new GData API for Picasa. In addition to providing RSS feeds for albums, tagged photos and user comments, you can use the API to add and remove photos, albums, comments and tags from your own applications. This might be a nice way to manage image data (and offload image storage) […]
The F12 dashboard is one of my favorite features in OS X. If you have a widget that you use all the time, however, it’s sometimes a bit of a nuisance switching back and forth between the dashboard and your desktop. There’s a hidden dashboard feature that will allow you place dashboard widgets right on […]
ViEmu is a cool add-in that brings vi/vim editing modes to several Windows apps, including Visual Studio, Word, and Outlook. It seems to have a lot of features that vi users are used to, and George V. Reilly (originator of the Win32 version of Vim, and currently releasing Win64 versions) has kind words for it: […]
