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Time-lapse with Iris

aaronx — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 17:04:35 +0000

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.

This entry was sent from my new iPhone

aaronx — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:19:07 +0000

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

GraphicConverter’s AppleScript ‘set IPTC caption’ errors

aaronx — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:59:02 +0000

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 people (like I was an hour ago) to find it.

Mac OS X release dates

aaronx — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:46:15 +0000

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 February 13, 2003
10.2.5 April 10, 2003
10.2.6 May 6, 2003
10.2.8 September 22, 2003
10.2.8 October 3, 2003
10.3.0 October 24, 2003
10.3.1 November 10, 2003
10.3.2 December 17, 2003
10.3.3 March 15, 2004
10.3.4 May 26, 2004
10.3.5 August 8, 2004
10.3.6 November 5, 2004
10.3.7 December 15, 2004
10.3.8 February 9, 2005
10.3.9 April 15, 2005
10.4.0 April 29, 2005
10.4.1 May 16, 2005
10.4.2 July 12, 2005
10.4.2 October 12, 2005
10.4.2 October 19, 2005
10.4.2 October 19, 2005
10.4.3 October 31, 2005
10.4.4 January 10, 2006
10.4.5 February 14, 2006
10.4.6 April 3, 2006
10.4.7 August 7, 2006
10.4.8 September 29, 2006
10.4.9 March 13, 2007
10.4.10 June 20, 2007

MacRumors.com : WWDC 2007 Keynote Live Coverage

aaronx — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:09:41 +0000

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

An AppleScript I wrote

aaronx — Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:55:29 +0000

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 theCount
              set theText to the text of document 1 as string
              log theText
              tell application "Finder"
                      set the clipboard to theText
              end tell
               tell application "BBEdit"
                      paste
              end tell
              close window 1
      end repeat
end tell

Looks pretty good in Safari, anyway. Oh well. Using the “pre” tags might cause some wrapping (read: not wrapping) problems, but I’ll manage.