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Feb 28 / 1:36pm

Free QuickTime video/audio for #mac #bookmark

Just as bookmark for myself (I tend not to like browser bookmarks, as they are pain to maintain on the long run, and I just want to be able to search-and-fine, instead of browse-and-select :-) -- the best open source free QuickTime component for Mac OS X which I found is Perian (http://perian.org). FTW! :-) real "swiss-army knife for QuickTime"
Filed under  //  audio   mac   quicktime   video  
 
Nov 12 / 8:29pm

Snow Leopard gives me a headache! (Ruby/MySQL/DBI)

So, needed to create tiny Ruby script which will work with MySQL via DBI. It almost ate my brain. Didn't want to work! But I can swear that it did work before (until I upgraded to Snow Leopard!). Found this link http://freaking.hilbrink.org/?p=7 and it happened to be my problem:

sudo env ARCHFLAGS="-arch x86_64" gem install mysql -- --with-mysql-config=/usr/local/mysql/bin/mysql_config

So easy and stupid :-(
Works now.

Filed under  //  apple   development   mac   mysql   ruby  
 
Oct 18 / 12:18pm

Blackberry Bold, Macbook Air - tethering on AT&T

Click here to download:
BlackBerry_3G_CID1 (7 KB)

Apparently, this thing works incredible easy. Easy to setup, easy to use.

I would suggest to read this thread The How To: To Mac Tethering: Your Problems Solved (http://forums.crackberry.com/f62/how-mac-tethering-your-problems-solved-260401/) on Crackberry, or may own experience is right here:

So, I've been using:

Blackberry Bold 9000 AT&T (4.6.0.297 on 4.0.0.247 platform)
Snow Leopard (10.6.1) on Macbook Air

Steps are the following:

 1. on Mac: turn on Bluetooth
 2. on BB: Setup -> Setup Bluetooth -> ...
 3. on BB: set device name for pairing, click OK, then Listen, it will start waiting for connection
 4. on Mac: System Preferences -> Bluetooth -> Setup new device -> ...
 5. on Mac: choose your mobile phone name, click Continue
 6. on BB: enter passkey which will be on your Mac screen, click Enter
 7. on BB: choose Yes, and check off Do not ask again
 8. on Mac: Bluetooth Mobile Phone setup screen will ask for data
 9. on Mac: Vendor = Other
10. on Mac: Model = Blackberry 3G CID1
11. on Mac: Check off Enable error correction and compression in modem
12. on Mac: Dial mode = Wait for dial tone before dialing
13. on Mac: Dialing = Tone
14. on Mac: Sound = On
15. on Mac: Username = wap@cingulargprs.com
16. on Mac: Password = CINGULAR1
17. on Mac: APN = wap.cingular
18. on Mac: Click Continue
19. Enjoy tethering - Connect Bluetooth DUN and that's it.

It's not 1-2-3, but it's fairly easy.

Before starting - you need to unzip this archive into /Libary/Modem Scripts/ or you will not have proper modem script for the Blackberry Bold.

Filed under  //  apple   blackberry   mac   tethering  
 
Sep 27 / 9:47pm

Quick and dirty MySQL install on Mac OS X from tgz

Just as a note to myself, how to install MySQL quick and dirty (very bad bad bad way of doing that, just very fast to make it up and running for quick coding session :-)
sudo /usr/local/mysql/scripts/mysql_install_db --user=root
sudo /usr/local/mysql/bin/mysqld_safe --user=root &
That's it, you are done, go screw you Mac OS X with such hackable installation. But, you still can do some MySQL coding. :-)
Filed under  //  apple   development   mac   mysql