Archive for the ‘Apple’ Category

Time-lapse with Iris

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Thanks to the newly-available Iris software, I can make time-lapse movies with the camera built into my mac. They’re funny.

Here’s one at around 26 Megs, Here’s a smaller version (8.6 Megs).

Enjoy… Continue reading

This entry was sent from my new iPhone

Tuesday, July 31st, 2007

I like it so far. It’ll take some getting used to.…

GraphicConverter’s AppleScript ‘set IPTC caption’ errors

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

If you’re trying to use GraphicConverter with AppleScript to set IPTC captions and are getting the “GraphicConverter got an error: Some data was the wrong type.” error, you need to coerce your caption variable to Unicode text:

set myCaptionVariable to myCaptionVariable as Unicode text — that’ll fix it.

No one on them internets seems to have posted this before. This little post should have enough keywords for flummoxed… Continue reading

Mac OS X release dates

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

For a project I’m doing, figured I’d share:

10.0 March 24, 2001
10.0.1 April 14, 2001
10.0.2 May 1, 2001
10.0.3 May 9, 2001
10.0.4 June 21, 2001
10.1 September 25, 2001
10.1.1 November 13, 2001
10.1.2 December 20, 2001
10.1.3 February 19, 2002
10.1.4 April 17, 2002
10.1.5 June 6, 2002
10.2.0 August 23, 2002
10.2.1 September 18, 2002
10.2.2 November 11, 2002
10.2.3 December 19, 2002
10.2.4… Continue reading

MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage

Monday, June 11th, 2007

MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage
11:07 am Leopard shipping in October. Basic version, $129. Premium version, $129. Business version, $129, Enterprise version $129. Ultimate version, $129.
11:07 am crowd goes wild
11:08 am “it’s all the same… most people are gonna buy the ultimate version :)… Continue reading

An AppleScript I wrote

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Doesn’t do a lot, really, but I wanted to test how scripts show up here.

Violà:

tell application "Safari"
set theCount to the count of its windows
repeat with x from 1 to