SymbolicLinker is a tiny contextual menu plugin (for Puma through Leopard users) and software service (for Snow Leopard & later users) that, once installed, allows any user to create symbolic links to files inside the Finder. SymbolicLinker does this by adding a contextual menu item to the Finder that generates symbolic links to the selected files.
via SymbolicLinker.
Another quick bit of AppleScript for Aperture
The ID of the keyword is usually the keyword e.g. “Portrait”
N.B. You must select files that have the keyword otherwise the script will error.
set input to ""
tell application "Aperture"
set imgSel to (get selection)
if imgSel is {} then
error "Please select an image."
else
display dialog "Enter id of keyword to delete:" default answer input
set keyId to text returned of result
repeat with thisImg from 1 to count of imgSel
tell library 1
tell item thisImg of imgSel
delete keyword id keyId
end tell
end tell
end repeat
end if
display dialog "Done." buttons {"OK"} with title "Alert!" with icon note
end tell
ABC’s iView technology is great. Being able to catch-up on shows you’ve missed or forgotten to set the recorder for is very handy. Unlike remembering to set the recorder iView is only available on a flash enabled, internet connected device – basically a laptop or desktop computer. This leaves the iPhone completely out in the cold or as the ABC’s iView web site puts it “! Warning… Sorry, iView is not currently available on iPhone”.
So if you want to watch iView shows on your iPhone, forget it! Right? Well not quite. There is a relatively simple way to get iView video from the ABC’s web site to an iPhone. But first, the journey… Read More
This Swedish video streaming site has a fascinating collection of footage from the 1915 World Expo in San Fancisco.
via Världsutställningen 1915 invigs (utan ljud) – Öppet arkiv | SVT Play.
I recently cam et the conclusion that my workflow in Aperture was flawed and decided that I wanted to convert several hundred of my albums to projects but that I did not want to change the structure of my library in any other way. After some fiddling around with AppleScript I acme up with the following short script to do the job. You have to remember to select all the images in the album you want to convert first and you still have to do one album at a time but it beats the manual alternative.
tell application "Aperture"
set imgSel to (get selection)
if imgSel is {} then
error "Please select an image."
else
set aName to name of parent of item 1 of imgSel
set fName to name of parent of parent of item 1 of imgSel
tell folder fName
make new project with properties {name:aName}
repeat with i from 1 to count of imgSel
move item i of imgSel to project (aName)
end repeat
delete album aName
end tell
end if
end tell
When I recently tried to get NTFS working on my 10.6.3 server I came across this post about activating native NFS support in Snow Leopard. Sufficed to say, being a bear of little brain, I did not get it working. It did, however, lead me to a curiosity. The article instructs us to edit the file /etc/fstab which you may or may not have, in which case you should create it. I didn’t have that file but I did find a file called fstab.hd in the same location. I though this may be the file I needed edit so I opened it up and found the following inside:
IGNORE THIS FILE. This file does nothing, contains no useful data, and might go away in future releases. Do not depend on this file or its contents.
Now I’m not the sort of hacker that would take this any further so I still don’t know what this file, that may or may not do something, that may or may not be around in the future, actually does. I bet, it does do something, otherwise why would it exist and not be relied upon. Or am I just paranoid (yes, but besides that). Apple should really know better. This is a red rag to a bull…, an elephant in the room…, a platitude warped in metaphor, bound up with a simile… to a hacker. You can’t ignore a file that say IGNORE THIS FILE. It’s going to worry me for days now.
The recent purchase of a WD TV mini media player to keep the Munchkin amused has sent me scurrying back to the dark side. For the life of me I could not get the cute little bugger (the WD TV mini not the Munchkin) to recognise a HFS+ (Mac OS Extended) formatted hard drive, even though the (RT)FM said it should be OK. FAT(32) is obviously not an option when moving around 4GB+ plus files (iso images) so I think, Ah Ha!, NTFS |-( [sad face].
fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs.
via fruux – Just Sync, No-frills!.
Worth keeping an eye on especially if you think paying for a Mobile Me account is a rip-off.
The IMPOSSIBLE project has finally announced the availability of their new Polaroid-style instant film. The new film will be available (according to their web site) March 25, 2010. I’m looking forward to dusting off my old Polaroid cameras and having some instant fun 
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Unzipped Kitty
Aviary’s entire suite of media editing tools is now available for free. I’ve watched the progress of this, very ambitious, project for some time now and jumped out of my seat when I heard this news. Online media editing tools, some hands-down better then those offered by the big boys (Adobe), all for free:
Follow Aviary on Twitter to stay up-to-date with the project.
