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Links: macosxhints.com - 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes

Hitchhiker — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:00:18 +0000

macosxhints.com - 10.5: Repair Time Machine after logic board changes - Great tip on how to reassociate a Time Machine backup with a new machine, so that it continues backing up on the same time line, without creating a new backup set. TM backups are keyed by the machine's Ethernet MAC address, so it needs to be changed for i (tags: backup hack howto leopard macosx timemachine tips )

Links: Password Assistant | codepoetry

Hitchhiker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 13:00:10 +0000

Password Assistant | codepoetry - For some time I've thought it would be nice to be able to invoke the Password Assistant from the OSX Accounts preference pane on its own, since it is very nice to generate pronounceable passwords. Alas, it seems I was not the only one, someone did it alre (tags: cocoa cool hack macosx password security tools )

Links: XML Alternatives

Hitchhiker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 11:00:54 +0000

XML Alternatives - Interesting list of data formats that can be used instead of XML (tags: markup programming tools xml )

Links: Penny Arcade! - Lego-shaped snacks?

Hitchhiker — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:04:14 +0000

Penny Arcade! - Lego-shaped snacks? - As a parent, I agree that this product is a baaad idea. I love the commentary: "I can only assume that their next product is fruit flavored thumbtacks" (tags: baby funny lego )

Sending SMS through the Cablecom (hispeed.ch) web interface (howto)

Hitchhiker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:25:23 +0000

I wanted to be able to send SMS from the command line to my phone automatically (e.g. to get notified of certain emails). I use Cablecom, which offer the service of sending SMS through a web interface to subscribers. I found smssend (a seemingly dead package, but still available in some distributions), which has a scripting mini-language to allow writing plugins for any web-based service, but I could not get it to work. Finally, I decided to write it from scratch using Perl’s WWW::Mechanize package, and it turned out to be extremely easy. I borrowed the logic from SwissSMS (which is extremely nice and includes a hispeed.ch plugin, but it’s a GUI-only program).

Download the script: hispeedsend.pl. You also need the WWW::Mechanize and Crypt::SSLeay (for SSL support) packages.

How to use it:

hispeedsend.pl [--login=login] [-pass=pass] phonenumber message

You can hardcode the login and password in the script to avoid specifying them every time - see the top of the script.

Links: How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word

Hitchhiker — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:00:21 +0000

How to add emacs-like keybindings to MS Word - This really makes Word less painful to use. (tags: emacs howto keyboard macosx tips word )

Links: Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop

Hitchhiker — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:00:18 +0000

Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop - Incredible modification of a Mac mini, including keyboard and monitor (tags: apple cool design mac mod )

Links: Classics in Lego - a set on Flickr

Hitchhiker — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:02:32 +0000

Classics in Lego - a set on Flickr - Classic photos done with Lego figures (tags: art flickr lego photography )

Links: Open source on Mac

Hitchhiker — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:01:57 +0000

Open source on Mac - Relatively complete list of Mac-native open source applications (tags: mac opensource reference software )

My del.icio.us bookmarks for June 4th

Hitchhiker — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:01:37 +0000

YouTube - JCJC - Very cool - I hadn't heard about "contact juggling" until I saw this video, it's very impressive (tags: Juggling cool tricks video )

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