I recently switched back from firefox to safari as my default browser, mainly because firefox is too big, slow and hangs from time which anoyed me more and more. The switch became possible, because i found some extensions to safari, which counterparts i used on firefox excessively:
Tag Archive: macosx
Jan 19 2008
Sleep Modes for MacBook Pro
I’ve set my sleepmode of my macbook pro to use the “old” style of sleeping and my mac was very stable and had nearly no problems with waking from sleep. But as my battery seems to loose capacity i had the problem that if your battery empties very fast in sleep mode 0 (old style), …
Oct 29 2007
Compile Python 2.4.4 on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Recently i upgraded my OS to Leopard and had to recompile python 2.4.4 for my Zope 3 buildout setup (i need a clean python for that). The problem was, that python 2.4.4 won’t build on leopard, Jodok Batlogg from Lovely Systems had the same problem and instantly found the solution. As he hasn’t posted it …
Mar 27 2007
os x survival kit (darwin ports packages)
as i had to reinstall my mac book pro after my harddisk has died recently, i post my list of essential packages i need for my developments in Mac OS X.
Oct 16 2006
play flash videos (flv) in your quicktime player
Perian is a really handy tool if you have to deal with flash videos(.flv).
Jul 23 2006
unify the look of your Mac OS X
Apple started to use a new UI replacing the “old” brushed metal style – you can see it in your Mail or iTunes when you’re using Mac OS X Tiger.
Apr 11 2006
mediacenter on a mac – for free
iTheater iTheater Projectpage Pros: freeware OpenSource / GPL open for extensions Cons: only Release Candidate not finished yet MediaCentral MediaCentral Projectpage Pros: freeware supports EyeTV closest Userfeeling to FrontRow supports ATI Remote and Salling Clicker supports access to Bonjour shared Libraries from iTunes / iPhoto Cons: UI not very maclike, not as beautiful as FrontRow …
Apr 04 2006
get kaa.metadata (mmpython) running on OS X
go into kaa/base and edit setup.py by changing (line 36) this extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) to this #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) or use this diff: 36c36 < extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) — > #extensions.append( Extension(‘shmmodule’, ['src/extensions/shmmodule.c']) ) until now the support for cdrom drives only works on Linux, so i disabled it on OS X. now go to kaa/metadata and edit setup.py: change this ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] and change this ext_modules = [ cdrom ] to #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] ext_modules = [ ] or use this diff: 58c58,59 < ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom, ifoparser ] > ext_modules = [ ifoparser ] 61c62,63 < ext_modules = [ cdrom ] — > #ext_modules = [ cdrom ] > ext_modules = [ ] now go back to kaa/base and install the kaa.base package: $ sudo python setup.py install now go to kaa/metadata and install the kaa.metadata package: $ sudo python setup.py install you may use a different python instance, like /opt/python24/bin/python or something else if you don’t wanna install kaa into the default python on OS X.