Friday, April 30, 2010

iTuneMyWalkman

http://ilari.scheinin.fidisk.fi/itunemywalkman/?page=details

This free application will synchronise playlists (including podcasts) on an sony ericsson phone, but it has to appear as a volume. It will even sync when the volume appears on the desktop, automatically.

Looked for MacFuse or MacFusion bluetooth, but it's not really available. Experimental at best.

However, a new cable for the W880i means that now it connects beautifully. Moved iTuneMyWalkman to Applications and ran it. Set up to have a Folder Action and a Script, and configured to use Stick 1 memory card (probably should have left the * in the settings name) and sync just Stick 1 playlist. Seems to work very well! Dragging Podcasts into the Playlist means they're transferred too.

Monday, April 26, 2010

Spark - keyboard shortcuts on mac

Spark V 3.0 allows you to make keyboard shortcuts for loads of different things. Works v well with F1->F5 mapped to iTunes keys.

Sunday, April 25, 2010

iTunes album cover retrieval Artwork Gopher

Downloaded Artwork Gopher from apple downloads - really good at finding album covers. Just ran it from the disc image so far and it installs a script into the script menu. But I think it prob needs dragging to the utilities folder.

Also, BPM identification by http://www.mixmeister.com/ might be worth checking out.

Monday, April 19, 2010

OS X Password Assistant

Create random passwords using Keychain's built in dialog box, but stand alone.

Monday, April 5, 2010

Ruby in Netbeans

Used the Tools/Plugins to add Ruby plugin. Takes a while to install.

Git in Netbeans

Used nbgit plugin from Netbeans (0.3). Plugin installed okay. 

Put ProjectLocker seems to allow Git access only via a public key - which means that (since nbgit doesn't support that) I can't use it in Netbeans!

So used git-osx-installer from Google Code. Had to reopen the terminal window but then Git worked. Took my id_rsa.pub key from ~/.ssh/ and put it into ProjectLocker - used michaelfielding@Adventure.local as the identifier because that's what was at the end of the key file.

Lost Netbeans plugins

After I installed Ruby and PHP plugins into Netbeans (I think that was the trigger), the Plugins dialog box refused to populate. I opened the Netbeans application package and deleted the (empty) PHP and Ruby directories under Resources/Netbeans - but when I restarted, no difference.

Reinstalled Netbeans 6.8 and all the plugins had reappeared.