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Terse commentary on social media

kristofer — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:22:41 +0000

Star Reviews (ordered by typical usefulness)

AppleJack wins MacWorld Editor’s Choice Award

kristofer — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 21:25:12 +0000

I open the box. Inside the box is the largest and heaviest trophy I've ever received. It's a sixteen inch, bronze and gold plated statue featuring an androgynous, futuristic, vaguely human being holding aloft—what is it, a Mac SE 30? Evidently, AppleJack has received an Editor's Choice award from MacWorld.

Recovering vpad.pdb files from a Palm Treo 680 with Mac OS X

kristofer — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:12:21 +0000

Background I sometimes use my Treo 680 as a voice recorder to capture ideas for songs. For a long time I thought all the files were being backed up to my Mac. It wasn’t until I had to do a hard reset, that I realized they were not restored to the Voice Memo application as selectable [...]

BBDiff: quick patch file generation from within BBEdit

kristofer — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 20:53:29 +0000

While BBEdit has a great tool for comparing and applying changes between files, it does not generate standard .patch files that can be used for bug reports, code fixes, and change logging. BBDiff will compare the contents of the frontmost window to the contents of the window just behind it, and will use the diff command [...]

Using your t-mobile Treo 680 as internet access point via Bluetooth with Mac OS X

kristofer — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:47:11 +0000

Here is the technique I used in order to be able to connect my MacBook Pro to the Internet through my t-mobile Treo 680’s internet access. Please note: You need full internet access from t-mobile, not just the $5.95/month e-mail and WAP package they sell. This worked for me, but I make no guarantee that this [...]

Making the Mac OS X bash shell alias and symlink agnostic

kristofer — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:17:26 +0000

After many years of intermittently being miffed when I couldn't just type: cd /NameofAlias and have the bash shell transport me into the directory the alias pointed to, I finally decided to do something about it.

AppleJack v. 1.3.2 released.

kristofer — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:19:42 +0000

AppleJack 1.3.2 fixes a serious bug associated with File Vault use that could wipe large sections of a user’s hard drive. In addition, AppleJack has been retooled to operate much more securely while doing file deletions. An added feature in this release is an automatic check for the /tmp directory (often implicated in boot problems). [...]

AppleJack 1.3 Released

kristofer — Thu, 12 Aug 2004 00:29:07 +0000

AppleJack is a user friendly troubleshooting assistant for Mac OS X. AppleJack lets you troubleshoot a computer even when you can't load the GUI, or don't have a startup CD handy. AppleJack runs in Single User Mode and is menu-based for ease of use.

Eudora to SpamCop v 1.2. Fixes submission format

kristofer — Thu, 22 Jul 2004 21:33:55 +0000

This is an AppleScript for quickly reporting spam to SpamCop from within Eudora. This version fixes the format of submissions to SpamCop to comply with SpamCop's new, more strict header parsing routines

XJanitor-PL: Surefire Periodic Maintenance for Mac OS X (Now with a controller)

kristofer — Fri, 05 Dec 2003 17:11:44 +0000

I have written a Perl script that simply checks to see how long it's been since a particular task has been performed, compares the time with how often that task should be performed, and if necessary, executes the task. The script is extensible to any maintenance tasks that output to a log file (and any task can be made to do so). The script also includes the option to send you an e-mail (but only if the task(s) have been executed) including full script output. Also, there is an AppleScript controller which will allow you to suspend maintenance activities for discreet periods of time, so you're machine won't suddenly start churning during a presentation, for example.