fosk.it! 2.0

A quick way of changing the default file format for Grab.app (or “Command + Shift + 4″ short-cut) from .tiff to other formats such as .pdf, .png, or .psd etc…
Choose any of the following line and paste it in your Terminal window and press the return key, that’s it.

defaults write com.apple.screencapture type png
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type pdf
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type tif
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type psd

By the way, here is a list of short-cuts for making a screenshot quickly:

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When I bought the macbook I immediately replaced the stock 160GB, 5400rpm hard disk with the faster 7200rpm in production nowadays: her majesty Hitachi 7k200 (HTS722020K9SA00).

Being this HDD quite expensive (due to the shortage in production) how much it improves seek/read time? I can confirm that power consumption and noise are the same as the stock unit, and that is wise to buy the 100 or 200GB models with an higher storage density per disk face in comparisono of the 160 GB unit.

Here there are some benchmark between a 200GB 7200rpm Hitachi 7k200 running a 3,1 macbook (2.2GHz Merom based, 4GB ram) and the stock 160GB 5400rpm Fujitsu on a 4,1 macbook (2.4GHz Penryn, 4GB ram). So sorry but no HFS+ bench, I can’t find any decent benchmark app for OS X: Xbench is extremely old, and Geekbench 64 told me absolutely random crap marks on the new Penryn, reporting a numerical result more or less the half in comparison of the “old” Merom one!?!

FAT32

5400rpm

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No dai sul serio, c’era veramente bisogno di mettere su la bellezza di quattro blog in italiano (imbottiti di pubblicità all’inversosimile) con l’unico scopo di ricopiare le stesse identiche minchiate da Mac Rumors e Apple Insider?

Eh?

Tested on my Grande Punto: iPhone (fw 1.1.4 OTB) and Blu&me (convergence 1)

So, can this Apple thingy work with blue&me that – beware – runs Windows Automotive?

Fortunately the reply is yes, only the SMS read function won’t work, but this is also true for all but some SE and Motorola phones.

I’m selling my Nokia N80 w/ a Nokia LD-3W bluetooth GPS antenna and a 2 GB miniSD. Almost two years old. No brand, running latest firmware for N80 “Internet edition”. Some scratches, but generally in good condition.

N80 specification are… known: symbian 3rd, wi-fi b/g, 3 mpx camera… bla bla…

LD-3W has a SiRF 3, a car charger and replaceable battery.

If interested, feel free to contact me :D

This morning the long awaited v24 dd-wrt stable relase was.. relased.

Can’t wait to test it, web flashing on my spare Linksys WRT worked like a charm.

On the F*nera front, there’s the usual lack of (updated) information. That’s my conclusion, successfully tested on both 2100 and 2200 models:

Download stable relase here.

* “fonera-firmware.bin” is used for flashing via web interface **only** from a RC7. If you are running older builds, redboot flashing is compulsory.

* “linux.bin” is instead for flashing via redboot/serial. Commands are listed here. And yes, memory offset were the same as RC7.

I hope Brainslayer will put a readme on the download directory to make this clearer ^_^


<i8b4uUnderground> d-_-b
<BonyNoMore> how u make that inverted b?
<BonyNoMore> wait
<BonyNoMore> never mind


To configure a Mac OS X user account so that .DS_Store files are not created when interacting with a remote file server using the Finder, follow the steps below.
Note: This will affect the user’s interactions with SMB/CIFS, AFP, NFS, and WebDAV servers.

Open the Terminal.
Type:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true
Press Return.
Restart the computer.

If you want to prevent .DS_Store file creation for other users on the same computer, log in to each user account and perform the steps above—or distribute a copy of your newly modified com.apple.desktopservices.plist file to the ~/Library/Preferences folder of other target users.

These steps do not prevent the Finder from creating .DS_Store files on the local volume.

Captcha antispam is very annoying (even if there might be some fancy implementations), a simpler way to get no less spam towards email forms can be an approach like this:

- create a hidden text form hidden by CSS;

-  if this hidden field contains some sort of text the form won’t be posted (cause generally spam bots don’t bother on CSS).

An human user, using a (d|r)ecent browser don’t see the form and he can post without annoyng captcha insertion. Legacy browser (no CSS aware) would display a warning telling the user not to write anything in the text form.

Here’s the astonishing trivial code.

Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 ISO mirror on this server here. Oh, and MD5 sums, also.

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