Troy's Random Ramblings » Computers

Quartz Trickery with OS X

Troy — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:41:36 +0000

Here’s a short clip that shows some of the nifty, but useless, things that you can do with OS X and Quartz….

iCal Google Calendar

Troy — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:22:35 +0000

The easiest way to share your calendar between multiple Mac computers is here. Just head on over to http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?answer=99358 and follow the steps. In no time at all you will have your Google Calendar entries showing up in iCal.

Internode Usage Meter Widget

Troy — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:23:19 +0000

Internode Usage Meter Widget updated.

Now shows IP address on front of widget.

See http://blog.tkdack.com/dashboard

iChat to MSN Through Jabber

Troy — Tue, 17 May 2005 11:57:17 +0000

All Forces has a very in depth spiel on how to connect »iChat to MSN through Jabber.

Follow the comprehensive instructions and in no time at all you’ll be using iChat to connect to your MSN, Yahoo and other IM accounts.

My Desktop Setup

Troy — Mon, 09 May 2005 07:36:16 +0000

My desktop setup

Blogmail -> Wordpress

Troy — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:38:39 +0000

Well I can’t work this one out.

Wordpress supports the metaWeblog API for XML-RPC, it even has an implementation of the newMediaObject method.

However it seems that my python script that is trying to send a Base64 encoded image to the newMediaObject method isn’t working.

Initial investigations looks like the Base64 encoding isn’t being decoded on the other end. Now I’m not sure why that is happening, but it is a bit annoying.

Well, adding a base64_decode to the newMediaObject method in the Wordpress xmlrpc.php file seems to have done the trick. Now I just have to find out where the problem lies, either in the Wordpress XML-RPC server implementation, or in the Python XML-RPC client implementation.

Next on the list is to try and get the actual XML that is sent from the python script to the server and see what it says about Base64 encoding.

Mousey, mousey, mousey….

Troy — Tue, 03 May 2005 04:36:43 +0000

Just a little snap to make sure that the blogmail script is still working as advertised.

The picture is the mouse that I’ve got for my Powerbook. It cost me a whole $10 at the computer markets in Melbourne, best $10 I’ve spent in ages, it’s a great little mouse. It has an LED inside that continuously changes colour. It cycles through about six different colours: red, green, cyan, purple, blue and yellow. Bit cheesy, but cute none the less.

Pity the camera on my phone isn’t the best quality, but then if you want a good quality camera you don’t buy a phone I suppose.

Guess-the-google

Troy — Mon, 02 May 2005 09:19:40 +0000

Guess-the-google, a horribly addictive little game that presents you with 20 images from Google Images search and you have to try and guess what keyword was used to produce the images returned by the search.

It’s not as easy as it seems.

Re-Design

Troy — Sun, 01 May 2005 10:20:13 +0000

After spending a few hours browsing through Stock Exchange I decided to change the look of this site slightly. Now every time that you reload this page you’ll get a new image at the top, there’s about 15 or 20 of them. Enjoy!

Grapher

Troy — Thu, 28 Apr 2005 12:48:17 +0000

Just look what the new Grapher application in Tiger (Mac OS X.4) can do. Pretty tricky stuff.