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RE: MS Gadgets and everything else

Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer has confirmed that they indeed get their ideas from the Macintosh

Q: Some Microsoft critics say that many of the features in “Longhorn” already exist in other operating systems. How do you respond to that?

A: I don’t hear that from enterprise customers. They don’t look at the Mac. They just don’t. Some people will say some of the features are kissing cousins to features they’ve seen elsewhere, and that is true. I’m not apologetic about the fact that we should, in a way that doesn’t offend anyone else’s intellectual property, study and learn and benefit from the work others have done.

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MovableType with MAMP (OS X)

NOTICE
CONTENTS OUTDATED

The MAMP+MT implementation process today differs drastically from the time this tutorial was first posted. I suggest checking the comments for a link of a possible updated tutorial from another user.

I tried installing MovableType locally in my laptops webserver (OSX), but ran into some snags. It turns out that there are non built-in perl modules required for it to access the MySQL database. What made it worse is that I was running MAMP and not the normal Apache webserver bundled with the OS.

I figured I’d write this for those users planning to do the same thing… and of course the ever persistent reason of “for my future reference.” Read More

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OSX default screenshot tweaks

The two Terminal commands that can change the image format and save location for OSX’s default screen capture are:

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type image_format defaults write com.apple.screencapture location /Full/Path/To/Folder

image_format can be the following as of of my knowledge

  • bmp (Windows Bitmap)
  • gif (Graphic Interchange Format)
  • jp2 (JPEG-2000)
  • jpg (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
  • pdf (Portable Document Format)
  • pict (PICT)
  • png (Portable Network Graphic)
  • psd (Photoshop)
  • sgi (Silicon Graphics Image file format)
  • tga (Targa image file format)
  • tiff (Taggged Image File Format)

To avoid logging out for the changes to take effect, you can enter the command.

killall SystemUIServer

There’s also a preference pane that can do this automatically, but it’s shareware.

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I got myself a… whatever

I got myself a Desiccant Cabinet, also known as a Dehumidifier Cabinet, Desiccator, Humidity Chamber, Constant Humidity Storage Chamber, Environmental Chamber, Dry Cabinet or Dry Box.

A fairly simple device but hard to find here. I don’t know if it’s because there aren’t that much retailers here, or simply because people don’t know what to call it. When you’ve got descriptors like the above mentioned, you can’t blame the regular hardware store people to know what you’re talking about.

I finally found them in Handyman Galleria. There were 3 sizes in stock: one small-ish, 2-level cabinet for 4K+, a “medium-sized,” 3-level model for 8.4k+ and one large version 5 levels I think, about as tall as a chair (you literally had to set it on the floor) for 13k+.

I got the middle one. And I was lucky, they marked up the price already, but I was sold the model with the “pre-markup” price (about 7k+).

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Updates galore

I’ve updated a bunch of stuff in the last 48 hours. Namely:

  • MovableType
  • Ecto
  • iTunes
  • QuickTime

MovableType being the focus of this post. But some other webnews will be discussed I guess (like that new iPod) hehehe.

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