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Archive for January, 2009

Life saver

One of these days, accidentally, I removed isync from my mac. After *a lot* of googling around I found this page that saved my life: http://www.feisar.com/isync_tips.html Here are the steps. You can do one of 3 things to restore isync: 1) Restore iSync from your Time Machine backup (or any other backup you’ve made). 2) [...]

Recover iSync after removing it from OSX

One of these days, accidentally, I removed isync from my mac. After *a lot* of googling around I found this page that saved my life: http://www.feisar.com/isync_tips.html Here are the steps. You can do one of 3 things to restore isync: Restore iSync from your Time Machine backup (or any other backup you’ve made). Copy a [...]

Double click/tap detection on android’s MapView

  If there is a cleaner way to do it, please share 1. Override the default MapView with your own implementation; 2. Override the onInterceptTouchEvent method; 3. Check if the last event was also a click and happened close by (say in the last 250ms); 3.1. If so,  it’s a double tap; do whatever you [...]

Double click/tap detection on android’s MapView

If there is a cleaner way to do it, please share Override the default MapView with your own implementation; Override the onInterceptTouchEvent method; Check if the last event was also a click and happened close by (say in the last 250ms); If so,  it’s a double tap; do whatever you want (in this case I [...]

RFM online radio on OSX

Oh man, do I love OSX or what? I’ve been trying for ages to get a Portuguese radio stream (RFM) to work on ubuntu (no luck with rhythmbox, or even firefox for that matter). It might be related to the fact that they use an .asx stream (windows stuff, ouch).   But here comes Apple [...]

RFM online radio on OSX

Oh man, do I love OSX or what? I’ve been trying for ages to get a Portuguese radio stream (RFM) to work on ubuntu (no luck with rhythmbox, or even firefox for that matter). It might be related to the fact that they use an .asx stream (windows stuff, ouch). But here comes Apple to [...]

Cold in Amsterdam

Listening to the soundtrack of the movie Rockstar. My new favorite song is now “We all die young”, by the fictional band “Steel Dragon”. In other news, it’s freaking cold in Amsterdam: http://picasaweb.google.com/assuncas/20080110_Cold_Day_Amsterdam   Posted via email from nocivus’ ramblings

Enlightenment

Just had an enlightened moment: I’ll put my tiddlywiki inside my dropbox. It’s like having a personal wiki on a server, minus the server. This way I can have my wiki accessible across all my computers and whatever changes I make (anywhere) will be momentarily available on all computers. Perfection!   Posted via email from nocivus’ ramblings

Enlightenment

Just had an enlightened moment: I’ll put my tiddlywiki inside my  dropbox. It’s like having a personal wiki on a server, minus the server. This way I can have my wiki accessible across all my computers and whatever changes I make (anywhere) will be momentarily available on all computers. Perfection!