Year: 2010

  • iPhone Hipstamatic/Lo-Mob samples…..

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  • Toronto International Air Show 2010

    I finally got a chance to go through 3000 frames of TIA2010 this weekend. Here is a sampling of what was buzzing/roaring around Toronto…..The full set is on flickr as usual.

  • Reset iTunes 10 window control buttons

    Not sure what’s happening lately in the Apple UI design department. Someone over there decided to reposition the window control buttons (you know x,-,+ aka. close,minimize,maximize) vertically in the latest itunes10 (see pics below). If you prefer the old (proper) way of having them ordered horizontally (see picture above), you can use the commands below:…

  • Panasonic’s New AG-AF100….DCinema game changer?…maybe.

    You kinda knew this was going to happen sooner or later. Canon 5D MKII came out a couple of years ago, set the budget DCinema market on it’s head and caught the traditional ENG/Video guys (Sony/Panasonic) totally off-guard. Well I think Panasonic — for now, until Sony comes out with their NEX-VG10 Camera — is…

  • Evom…Video encoding/transcoding doesn’t get any simpler…

    If you’re a mac user you’re gonna love this little gem. Grab a copy of Evom and prepare to be amazed at how simple video encoding can become. This little app from the “Little App Factory” is literally the definition of a OSX app….simple and powerful. Just drag a video over the drop zone, choose…

  • The Ultimate File Transfer Utility for Windows

    I’ve been posting mainly about OSX for the last little while, but no worries, I haven’t given up on Windows…yet :-). Someone today was asking about a good WebDAV client and after searching around for a bit, it seems like there is really only a couple out there. But really none of them can beat…

  • OSX Server: Could not setup Mach task special port 9

    com.apple.launchd[1] (0x10f860.cron[43786]): Could not setup Mach task special port 9: (os/kern) no access If you’re seeing this warning/error in your OSX Server log files, it is more than likely caused by cron running jobs for mailman subsystem. Even if the Mail process is disabled in Server Admin, OSX will try to run these cron jobs.…

  • Duplicating service settings under OSX Server…

    This mainly applies to how you deal with a backup DHCP server and it’s configuration, but might also be useful for backing up other service settings. One of the things that kinda bugs me about how some services are configured in OSX Server is the fact that the configurations are stored in the directory. For…

  • MySQL Replication howto for Snow Leopard…

    We recently upgraded our servers from old XServe G5’s running Tiger to the latest greatest running Snow Leopard. In this small howto I will deal with the procedure I followed to setup mysql master-slave replication between two new servers. I start out with two (master, slave) empty DB’s, setup the replication and then import my…

  • MySQL: Transfering users and priviledges to a new server….

    So this was a great big mystery this morning. How the heck do you transfer the users and their privileges out of a old mysql server and “import” them into a new server. We recently upgraded from OSX 10.4.11 to a couple of spanking new Snow Leopard servers and during the mysql export/import cycle this…