They are coming out October 26th and i want one. Enough said

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Don’t ask me how the sed magic works, but it does. Taken from here.

Running this:

mysql -u<USER> -p<PASSWORD> <DATABASE> -B -e "select * from videos_video;" | sed 's/\t/","/g;s/^/"/;s/$/"/;s/\n//g'

will produce something like this:

"id","title","url"
"1","video 1","http://youtube(...)"
"2","video 2","http://youtube(...)"
"3","video 3","http://youtube(...)"

Just pipe it to a .csv file and you’re done

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I think most of them work on both Snow Leopard and Lion. Not sure about previous versions. Just type the ones you want to activate/deactivate on the command line and have fun.

# Enable full keyboard access for all controls (e.g. enable Tab in modal dialogs)
defaults write NSGlobalDomain AppleKeyboardUIMode -int 3

# Enable the 2D Dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -bool true

# Disable menu bar transparency
defaults write -g AppleEnableMenuBarTransparency -bool false

# Expand save panel by default
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -bool true

# Expand print panel by default
defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -bool true

# Disable shadow in screenshots
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true

# Enable highlight hover effect for the grid view of a stack (Dock)
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilte-stack -bool true

# Enable spring loading for all Dock items
defaults write enable-spring-load-actions-on-all-items -bool true

# Disable press-and-hold for keys in favor of key repeat
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

# Disable auto-correct
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticSpellingCorrectionEnabled -bool false

# Disable window animations
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false

# Disable disk image verification
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify -bool true
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-locked -bool true
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages skip-verify-remote -bool true

# Automatically open a new Finder window when a volume is mounted
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-ro-root -bool true
defaults write com.apple.frameworks.diskimages auto-open-rw-root -bool true

# Avoid creating .DS_Store files on network volumes
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores -bool true

# Disable Safari’s thumbnail cache for History and Top Sites
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSnapshotsUpdatePolicy -int 2

# Enable Safari’s debug menu
defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu -bool true

# Remove useless icons from Safari’s bookmarks bar
defaults write com.apple.Safari ProxiesInBookmarksBar "()"

# Disable send and reply animations in Mail.app
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableReplyAnimations -bool true
defaults write com.apple.Mail DisableSendAnimations -bool true

# Disable Resume system-wide
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false

# Enable Dashboard dev mode (allows keeping widgets on the desktop)
defaults write com.apple.dashboard devmode -bool true

# Reset Launchpad
rm ~/Library/Application\ Support/Dock/*.db

# Show the ~/Library folder
chflags nohidden ~/Library

# Disable local Time Machine backups
sudo tmutil disablelocal

# Kill affected applications
for app in Safari Finder Dock Mail; do killall "$app"; done

# Fix for the ancient UTF-8 bug in QuickLook (http://mths.be/bbo)
echo "0x08000100:0" > ~/.CFUserTextEncoding

The original source can be found here.

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This is just a self reminder on how to disable and enable spotlight in Snow Leopard and Lion. Open a terminal and type:

To enable:

sudo mdutil -a -i on

To disable:

sudo mdutil -a -i off

In system preferences you can control which drives and/or folders are not to be indexed.

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The default time machine backup interval is every hour. Sometimes this can be really annoying so, if you find yourself in need to change this, here’s how:

Navigate to /System/Library/LaunchDaemons and locate the file named com.apple.backupd-auto.plist.

Inside this file you will find the following content:

 <key>StartInterval</key>
 <integer>3600</integer>

3600 means hourly (60 minutes X 60 seconds). If you multiply by 4, for instance, and use that value (14400) you will have automatic backups every 4 hours instead. Or whatever interval you prefer.
Happy backing up

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If you are developing in Swing and using hibernate you might – at some point in time – run into this exception:

org.hibernate.NonUniqueObjectException: a different object with the same identifier value was already associated with the session

What happened, you might ask? Well, turns out that when you close the session that created a given hibernate-managed object, this object becomes “detached” (meaning hibernate no longer has any control over it). So, when you attempt to save or update it in another session, hibernate will complain with that exception, because it can no longer tell which is the “true” version of the object.

The solution(s)? Look inside your code for places where you might be closing the session and take that out. That’s the solution in the case where you are using a long session (one that spans the entirety of the application’s life). In case you really want to close the session, you might consider using the session’s merge() method, which basically merges the fields in both the attached and non-attached instances of the object, and performs an update.

Hope that saves someone half a day of debugging

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After buying my shiny new ipad2 I, like most other tablet enthusiasts, devoted a fair amount of time in search of the coolest and most useful apps to install.

The major problem in most results that google returns is that they all mention the same list: twitter, IMO.im, friendly, dropbox, etc. (for a list of the obvious, follow this link).

After some deeper searches I found the following apps to be extremely interesting to me. I’m hoping they will be to you as well:

Writing
	If you write anything, these are the most well spent 79 cents, believe me.
	Log your life, with notes, pictures, and music.
	Find the perfect word to convey your message
Games
	Snowboard fun
	Awesome card game, kinda like Magic the gathering. Warning: Massive time waster
	Cool top down RPG.
Reading
	Read all your google reader subscriptions in this clean RSS reader.
	There’s a few marvel comics for free in this app.
	The great classics are free in the Kindle store. And the iPad is the perfect e-reader.
News and Magazines
	A beautiful way of keeping track of current events worldwide.
	A new take on wikipedia articles; everyday a new selection of wonderfully formated articles.
	A kind of magazine with a gazillion tips on how to make the most of your shiny new iPad.
Notes and doodles
	Keep all your notes in sync across your computers, tablets, and phones. Much better than evernote, in my opinion.
	Everyone doodles from time to time
Remote desktop and media centre control
	Money well invested, if you have a mac mini in your living room and don’t want to spend $100+ on a wireless keyboard + mouse setup. This app allows you to use the iPad as both. And does one hell of a job at it.
	To control your XBMC from the iPad.
	A remote viewer for your computers (VNC).
Video streaming
	The best way i found to stream video and music from my server to the iPad and other computers. It compresses video on the fly, allowing you to stream even through a 3G connection. Priceless.
Graphics
	Just in case you need to retouch some pictures on the iPad.
Cooking
	If you’re lazy like me, this will come in handy to discover new recipes to cook.
Data
	View your Google analytics data from this cool app.
Alarms
	And finally, everyone needs an alarm. This one is simple and gets the job done

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Ever found yourself sitting  in the toilet and, when it’s that time to do some pushing, instinctively getting on your toes to help the process? Well, it turns out that there is a reason for that: Humans have an easier time pooping in a crouching position. So when you get on your toes you are just getting closer to that shape.

And – as it turns out – there are 6 other things we might be doing wrong all our lives. Live and learn

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Here’s a little script to get the latest earthquakes worldwide (1 hour). Sorry, Ruby purists, for not using RSS 2.0 and hpricot for a cleaner extraction of the coordinates, but my xcode installation is messed up and i can’t build any gems

require 'rss/1.0'
require 'rss/2.0'
require 'rss/atom'
require 'open-uri'
require 'cgi'

source = "http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/1hour-M1.xml" # url or local
filecontent = "" # raw content of rss feed will be loaded here
open(source) do |s| content = s.read end
rss = RSS::Parser.parse(content, false)
rss.items.each do |item|
  data = item.summary.to_s
  # Extract raw info
  data = data.scan( /alt\=\&quot\;([^>]*)W\&quot\;/).last.first
  # Remove html escaping
  data = CGI.unescapeHTML(data).gsub("°N", "").gsub("°", "")
  # Convert into coords
  lat = data.split(' ')[0]
  lon = data.split(' ')[1]
  # Print it
  print item.updated.content, " ", item.title.content, " ", lat, " ", lon, "\n"
end

Next step: Show this on a map

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Need to be able to remotely add torrents to your secure machine at home? Don’t want to expose any ports to the world in order to accomplish that?

Solution: Use Dropbox and uTorrent.

How? Setup uTorrent to automatically download any torrent files found in your Dropbox folder (like the picture says). After that, any torrent files that you put in Dropbox – from any computer where you set it up – will begin to be downloaded. Oh, the joy

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