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xorti — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:59:36 +0000

Hi everyone, thanks for reading this blog.
I’m here today to say you, that I’m currently moving to jorgesapereira.com which will be my personal site.

The blog is now available at blog.jorgesapereira.com.

Once again,
Thanks

iSyncButton

xorti — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:34:29 +0000

iSyncButton is a Dashboard Widget that allows you to synchronize the devices configured on iSync in one single click.
It opens iSync, Synchronizes and when its done (even errors ocurred) it closes.

The iSyncButton was created by me, and for now it only syncs.
On the future I want to enable cancel sync and other options.

Download: iSyncButton Widget

How To… Hide GrowlTunes Toolbar Icon

xorti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:36:19 +0000

If you are like me and you like to know what’s playing on iTunes you can use GrowlTunes.
This application is on the Extras folder on the Growl (dmg) and shows you the song title, the artist, the artwork, the duration and it’s rating on a growl notification.

This is excellent but I’ve always thought that those headphones on the toolbar of the GrowlTunes app, were useless, for some good reasons like:

I usually don´t rate my music
To skip music I use the keyboard keys
To quit iTunes I use ‘+Q’ letting the GrowlTunes open for the next time I open iTunes

So in order to hide the headphones icon on the toolbar, all you have to do is:

Quit GrowlTunes.
Open the terminal app.
Type this command line:
defaults write com.growl.growltunes GrowlTunesWithoutMenu -bool YES
Now restart GrowlTunes.

This tip is originally from: The beautiful People

How to… Download Flickr Photos and Sets

xorti — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:43:57 +0000

Hi every one,
I’m where today to tell you how can you download complete sets from Flickr.

Imagine that you have a friend that took the pictures from a party that you were present. He as posted the photos on Flickr and they are in a big number. So to download all that photos easily you can use ‘Photo Grabbr’, available here.

The only problem is that you cannot download ‘all rights reserved’ photos!
But it looks a good app. Have a look.

How To… Create Web 2.0 Apps for Mac OS

xorti — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 20:48:54 +0000

There are a lot of Web-Services in the internet now on these days, like Twitter, Google Reader, Meebo and many many more.

So what about to create single and independent applications for these Web-Services on your Mac? That’s possible with an App called Fluid that allows you to create a single App to that Web-Service, for example the twitter, the only thing that we have to do is set the URL, give a name to our App, set the Icon and choose where we want the App.

Now click on create and then the application will be available on the Location folder selected.

Now you can select ‘Launch Now’ and view the result.

Now you can create so much App as you like. Enjoy!

Homepage: FluidApp
Download: Fluid 0.9.6

New Newton Gravity Virus

xorti — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 18:22:31 +0000

Do you have some colleagues that leave their mac open to any other user without locking it? If you want to impress them while a coffe break you can try the Newton Gravity Virus.

The Newton Virus, does not destroy any single document, program or hardware component.

Have a look at the video:

How To… Uninstall HttpMail

xorti — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:59:12 +0000

HttpMail is a plugin that allow you to get the mails on your hotmail account on Apple Mail.
I’ve tried this plugin but unfortunately it didn’t work for me because I’ve got a live.com account. I’ve read that it only works with hotmail accounts.

To remove this Plugin from your Mac all you have to do is:

Go to your Library folder, open the Mail folder and then the bundles folder .
Delete the httpmail.mailbundle folder.

And it’s all… easy?

The first post!

xorti — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:49:39 +0000

Hi every one,

This blog has the purpose to help all the Mac OS X users that have some difficulties to install/remove, configure or anything else on a Mac. At this time and since that this is the beginning I will try to update this blog daily, but with no guarantees.

Feel free to suggest anything that you want.