November 2011
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July 2011
2 posts
How to get a fast connection between a Macbook Air...
If you ever tried to transfer files over Wifi between a Mac and a PC, you were probably horrified by the usual transfer speed (about 30kb/s). How can you use the full transfer speed of USB 2.0 and still have a comfortable setup (e.g., folder sharing or internet sharing)?
First, a Macbook Air doesn’t have an ethernet adapter. So, a USB gigabit ethernet adapter is required (it will only reach...
Unison and directory changes
I love Unison. It’s open-source, it’s cross-platform compatible, it’s reasonably fast, it never ever destroyed my data, it has just enough verbosity to make it practical, and it’s even more intelligent than rsync. It even occasionally detects when a folder name has changed (instead of deleting the mirrored folder and copying everything over again). Long story short - I use...
June 2011
1 post
My favorite research resource on cars →
carfolio just collects the cold hard facts, and leaves the soft data (price, mileage, reliability) to other sites. But boy, do they have a lot of cold hard facts.
They have absolutely every spec about (almost) every car ever produced. Want to know the power-to-weight of this ‘32 Maybach, or the specific wind resistance of that rare SUV? No problem. And that’s what I love them for.
February 2011
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Restoring files from the new iPhone Backup... →
The new iTunes Backup structure (from iTunes 9.2 onwards) relies on a very intransparent organization. You can find the following files in the usual folder (User\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\UniqueBackupID\):
info.plist - general metadata about the backup
manifest.mbdb - a list of the iPhone folder structure (semi-readable)
manifest.mdbx - presumably the same list, but...
August 2010
1 post
My recent attempts to convert my science news...
June 2010
1 post
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Zelda: orchestration
I’m currently...
March 2010
1 post
Automatic sorting of photos in folders
Photos from any cheap digital camera come in one big folder, including all the images you have made. If you want your photos in separate folders which indicate the capture date, you probably will need this script.
The script “imagefolder.py” scans all JPGs and TIFs in its directory for their EXIF metadata. If a capture date is present, the photo will be moved in a subfolder in the...
September 2009
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