I was looking for a really small and fast image viewer without bells and wihstels and I found it:
Phoenix Slides
In conjunction with USB Overdrive I mapped wheel down and up to right and left arrow. Now I can skim through the images only with the mouse(wheel)

I found this hint while I was working with irb (ruby) and realized that I can’t type ö, ä and ü. To enable umlaut(e) do:

Then put the following in your ~/.inputrc (if it’s not there create the file in your home dir):


set meta-flag ON
set input-meta On
set conver-meta Off
set output-meta On
set show-all-if-ambiguos On


That’s it. Restart Terminal.app or do “source ~/.inputrc”

I hope so!

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Our guineapig Lilu died today. Strange how one can set one’s heart to such a small animal…

After Google took over Urchin they have released the Google Analytics service. Fortunately there is also a Wordpress plugin

When you install applications through the installer most of the time a pkg file is created under /Library/Receipts. Those pkg’s do not contain the uninstalled application but (among other things) the file “Archive.bom”. This file lists all files with their full path installed by the application. Sadly Archiv.bom is not a normal flat text file but a “Archive.bom: Mac OS X bill of materials (BOM) fil”. What ever this means - you have to use the

lsbom

command to view it. To get the Archive.bom one has to right click the pkg file in /Library/Receipts and issue”Show package contents”. Inside the folder “Contents” resides the bom file.
I have created this little automator workflow that should be saved as a finder plugin. When you right click the Archive.bom, it opens a new Terminal window and lists the file contents with lsboom. Next version will be able to search the Archive.bom file inside the pkg file.

UPDATE:
The new version works with the pkg files. Just right click on it and select the “lsbom” automator plugin. It uses the frontmost Terminal window to display the result.

Download
lsbom.workflow

This installs itself in the contextual menu. When you CTRL+klick on a folder “Open Terminal Here” will open a… you get the point Link

Harry Potter 4 - the movie!

First I followed this howto. Then I installed the mysql gem like this: gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-dir=/usr/local/mysql. A friend pointed me to this tutorial on Onlamp.