Archive for November, 2005

App launcher - Quicksilver

Wednesday, November 09th, 2005

Quicksilver
If you don’t know it - You have missed something. Just press Control+Space and type the first letter of the app you want to launch.

Send only accounts in Mail.app

Wednesday, November 09th, 2005

If you are subscribed to some mailing lists with different addresses then you know the problem that only the mail address you subscribed with is accepted. Mail.app provides an elegant way to define more than one mail address. For the specific account provide the email addresses associated with that account separated with commas. Those addresses will be listed in a dropdown field when creating a new mail.

Webmail fun

Wednesday, November 09th, 2005

I am playing with Roundcube right now. I am still fighting some DB errors. It seems the INSERT query for the session table fails. Still, roundcube looks fantastic and is very responsive beeing powerd by AJAX. Playing with alpha software reminds me to backup my mails on the server :) I am using Flexbackup for this task. It’s very “flex”ible and supports incremental and differential backup sets.

Theme Wars over

Wednesday, November 09th, 2005

I am satisfied with the new theme except for the background. On my laptop it is gray rather than green grayish as it should be…
I think it’s time for a new laptop :P

Enable IP forwarding

Tuesday, November 08th, 2005

I’ve played with ettercap and friends yesterday. One thing needed if you want the route the traffic trough your nic ist IP forwarding. Here’s how to enable it:


sysctl -w net.inet.ip.forwarding=1

Ruby - Aufgabe 3

Monday, November 07th, 2005

Das ist die dritte Aufgabe. Lottoziehen:

03-lotto.rb

Ethereal under Mac OS X

Sunday, November 06th, 2005

If you install Ethereal (Networkanalyzer) with fink, and after starting X11 you would like to use ethereal as root - then you need to setup the DISPLAY variable for X:

put this in your ~/.bash_profile:

if [[ -z $DISPLAY ]]; then
export DISPLAY=:0.0
fi

Safari Keyboard and Mouse shortcuts

Sunday, November 06th, 2005

If you want to take a look at some shortcuts, open Menu->Debug->Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts
Shift+Command+right and left are quite usefull :)
I wish Cocoagestures would understand rightmouse button and wheel up/down so I can map these commands to a new gesture :/

What I wish for Christmas…

Sunday, November 06th, 2005

Well, apart from “geekhardware”, mo’ money and Sarah you know what ;) I wish Terminal.app had Keychain.app support. Storing those billion passwords in a secure manner and being integrated into Mac OS sounds appealing.

Gestures for your apps

Friday, November 04th, 2005

I come to like Safari lately, but I missed the gestuers I knew from Firefox very much. Now I found Cocoa gestures. One can use it for all Cocoa apps, but I only need it for Safari. It is fairly easy to configure. Just enable it and choose what action you would like to perform. Cocoa gestures records your clicks and maps it to a gesture that you can customize further. COOL!

Cocoa gestures

One thing I am still missing. The Firefox extension “All in one gestures” had the feature to switch tabs without popups with right mouse button + wheel up and right mouse button + wheel down. I can’t emulate this with Cocoa gestures :/ If you know how, drop me a note please.