Quarter Life Crisis Comments

z00m3r on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard [part 2 of 2]

z00m3r — 2010-09-05T19:18:13+01:00

Re Finder - Spatial vs Browser metaphor: to each his/her own; I find the current combination of approaches meets my needs pretty well. In windows, I tend to use list view and sort by date modified, unless there are a lot of images, in which I use sorted icon view.

I used to be a bit nutty (several OS versions ago) about carefully arranging icons on the desktop, but now I just use the grid and sort by date modified again. I keep a few folders on the desktop for icons that used to be lined up in careful groups before; there’s a workaround for everything.

OTOH, there used to be some great 3rd-party utils for saving multiple desktop icon/window layouts; some allowed you to restore even after a reboot/crash.

Briefly, all I could find at Versiontracker was this and another unrated freeware one:

Desktop Icon Manager - 2.0.1 5 stars! http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/211425

If I can find the one I used to use in my older system backups, I’ll let youse know. Dunno if it’s kept up to date with various OS versions…

ssp on Earth Addresser 2

ssp — 2010-08-28T16:53:49+01:00

Hi Christoph,

I am writing the KML file using Apple’s readymade XML library. Unfortunately I didn’t discover a way to pretty-print the output with that.

If you don’t mind using the Terminal, you may find that using the xmlllint command like this:

xmllint --format /path/to/Addresses.kml

will do the pretty-printing for you.

Just for curiosity’s sake: In which way do you edit the file? And, on a technical level, could those changes be achieved with XSLT?

Christoph on Earth Addresser 2

Christoph — 2010-08-27T22:36:24+01:00

Hi, thanks a lot for that nice tool! Could you add a newline after each placemark in the KML file? Would be way easier to do some manual adjustments afterwards.

Thanks a lot

ssp on Earth Addresser 2

ssp — 2010-08-26T20:28:52+01:00

@Benet Allen:

Earth Addresser does not use the country name typed in but the country set in the menu for the address format information (cf Earth Addresser Help). Unfortunately Apple’s Address Book software does not automatically synchronise these two bits of information.

Benet Allen on Earth Addresser 2

Benet Allen — 2010-08-26T18:17:55+01:00

Hi - I changed all my failed addresses so the country is included - ‘United Kingdom’ - but Earth Addresser doesn’t seem to recognise that the addresses have changed. They still fail the lookup, and the listing of failed addresses still includes ‘us’ as the country. How can I reset Earth Addresser to start again from scratch?

Thanks BA

ssp on Earth Addresser 2

ssp — 2010-08-26T08:42:25+01:00

@Bruno:
That sounds odd. I can’t really tell what’s happening in your Google Earth, unfortunately.

All I can do is recommend to first remove all of your address placemarks to be sure they are really gone out of Google Earth and then import the file again.

Bruno E Kolodgie on Earth Addresser 2

Bruno E Kolodgie — 2010-08-26T04:40:17+01:00

I edited address data and redid “create placemarks”. Now I have duplicates of everything. I deleted the first “placemark creation” but it still shows duplicates.

Stefan on Rīga

Stefan — 2010-08-22T19:23:30+01:00

Reminds me to visit Tallin sometime!

Fredrik Motin on MacBook Pro Battery Life

Fredrik Motin — 2010-08-18T02:11:10+01:00

I just bought a MB Pro, with one of the reasons being that the claimed up to 10h of battery life, and now I have it fully charged recently and it now says “2:14 - 94%”

Not really 10h… Have you found out anything further about this? :S

Eliel on Copying the Mac OS X Install DVD

Eliel — 2010-08-13T05:25:53+01:00

I’m doing this and it was the solution since my utility disk drag ‘n drop wont wotk is working fine but is taking more than 1 hour and is still on 40… is this normal?

Restoring Snow Leopard image on 8GB Kingstone flash drive 2,16 Ghz Core 2 Duo iMac 21” 2Gb RAM

Lauren Olivia on Music Fun

Lauren Olivia — 2010-08-12T23:40:36+01:00

This was interesting! I enjoy with mostly everything you said, with the exception of Placebo. Not all of their music is fantastic, yes, but I enjoy most of their stuff. If you haven’t, listen to their album ‘Without You I’m Nothing.’ It’s my favorite. :)

d.w. on Rīga

d.w. — 2010-08-12T20:05:45+01:00

Well, sounds like your ferry adventure was at least… interesting. :) It is quite cool to be able to visit some of those lesser known destinations.

Alex on Denkmal

Alex — 2010-08-04T11:11:42+01:00

Hey thanks for this translation, just as a tip you might want to translate

Komm auf die Beine komm her zu mir. Es wird bald hell und wir haben nicht ewig Zeit.

as:

Get on your feet come over to me. It will be light soon and we don’t have forever.

This sounds better in English than what’s here :)

Carl on New hard drive vs Time Machine

Carl — 2010-07-29T13:43:28+01:00

This would have come in handy for me last March. Re-backing up the backup (and losing the original data) was a pain.

ssp on New hard drive vs Time Machine

ssp — 2010-07-29T12:22:20+01:00

@Stefan:
Elk-smiley: O:€