piet van oostrum.com » Mac OS X http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/ Sat, 01 Jan 2011 04:55:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Applescript/Python script for url shortener http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/python/applescriptpython-script-for-url-shortener/ http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/python/applescriptpython-script-for-url-shortener/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:18:59 +0000 piet http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/?p=307 I had an Applescript to use the bit.ly url shortener. In fact I had two of them: one takes the current Firefox URL as input, and the other one takes the clipboard as input. Moreover I preferred the new j.mp instead of bit.ly because it saves 2 characters.

Actually j.mp is an alias for bit.ly,and you [...]]]> http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/python/applescriptpython-script-for-url-shortener/feed/ 0 Running Calibre on Snow Leopard http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/ebooks/running-calibre-on-snow-leopard/ http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/ebooks/running-calibre-on-snow-leopard/#comments Wed, 21 Oct 2009 08:43:36 +0000 piet http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/?p=300 Yesterday I installed Snow Leopard on my recently bought MacBook. After installation I wanted to run Calibre (an eBook management application) because I wanted to download an eBook to my iPhone. Unfortunately Calibre completely went haywire. It was consuming about 100% CPU time, and the machine got almost completely unresponsive.I looked in the console messages [...]]]> http://www.pietvanoostrum.com/en/ebooks/running-calibre-on-snow-leopard/feed/ 0