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Entries Tagged as 'Macintosh'

Converting WMA to MP3 on OSX or Linux

October 3rd, 2006 · 3 Comments

Finding this technique took more time than I thought it should, so I thought I’d share a quick and simple music transcoding tip.Converting WMA to MP31) Get mplayer and lame installed.

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Tags: Tips · Macintosh · Linux

Pgrep and Pkill for OSX

September 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment

Usually I am satisfied by the commandline tools available in OSX.

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Tags: Open Source · Macintosh · Linux

Sqlite3 made Safari Crash

July 3rd, 2006 · No Comments

Short story: upgrading SQLITE3 makes Safari crash in OSX.
Using Sqlite on several systems recently, I decided to upgrade the installed Sqlite on my Macbook Pro. Otherwise I kept running into version incompatibility problems between the Linux systems and my Mac.
Compiling was easy enough, but by habit before I installed the new libraries, I made […]

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Tags: Libraries · Macintosh

Mac software I use every day

April 17th, 2006 · 1 Comment

In the grand tradition of Daring Fireball I’m going to share my software choices.

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Tags: Reviews · Macintosh

Endicia for Mac Review, initial impressions

March 15th, 2006 · 4 Comments

I’ve been shipping a lot of packages lately. It was a big pain, and now it is not. That’s my basic review of Endicia for Mac.
Manual shipping
When I first started shipping, I’d manually label each package. My handwriting is terrible, so it looked like a retarded monkey wrote the label, and I […]

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Tags: Reviews · Equipment · Macintosh