KW Videoblog for 7-6 : Cyberpunk Librarian tells us about cross platform sliding at work.
Jul 09Together with some great community content from viewer Cyberpunk Librarian who is showing us “How he uses cross platform technology at work” we also have a guesthost for this weeks videoblog.
Shownotes
- Find Cyberpunk Librarian at …
- bibliosophs.com | qcfriends.
org/notallbits - youtube.com/user/
cyberpunklibrarian - Music by Incompetech.com
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kw606 : Making your Mac cross platform friendly.
Jul 06We dive behind the microphone and give all of you Apple users a slice of pie you don’t want to pass up on. We talk about making your Mac “Slider” friendly and how to put up ladders and crawl out of Apple’s walled garden. We have quite a slew of interesting tips and tricks on how to run “cross platform” applications, files, filesystems and connections through your favorite Mac. Learn and listen to this episode of the podcast that is filled to the rim with community feedback and contributions and great music by Youtube princess Juless.
Shownotes.
- Why ?
- How to get started.
- Remapping your brain and your body.
- Desktop enhancements.
- Loginox.
- PathFinder.
- iTerm
- 20 Best command line hacks.
- TextWrangler
- QuickSilver
- Crashplan
- Make executable scripts on OSX.
- Cross platform applications.
- Use Virtualbox in Seamless mode.
- Web tools.
- Online Photoshop Pixlr
- Macports.
- Cronnix.
- Dropbox
- Bittorrent Sync
- Macfuse
Tweak code (Copy and paste in your OSX command line)
#make dock appear instantatiously
defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 0 && killall Dock
#don’t reopen every file when you reopen your app.
#in preview
defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
#in quicktime
defaults write com.apple.QuickTimePlayerX NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool false
#kill the dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
killall Dock
#show the path in the finder
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
#disable window animations
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled -bool false
#enable direct scrolling
defaults write -g NSScrollAnimationEnabled -bool NO
#no more bouncy windows when scrolling
defaults write -g NSScrollViewRubberbanding -int 0
#set time machine backup to 1800
sudo defaults write/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.backupd-auto StartInterval -int 1800
#force expanded save-and-print dialogs
defaults write -g NSNavPanelExpandedStateForSaveMode -boolean true
defaults write -g PMPrintingExpandedStateForPrint -boolean true
#no 3d-glassy dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean yes
#show hidden files in finder
#defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
#killall Finder
#3d glassy dock
defaults write com.apple.dock no-glass -boolean no
#make hidden app icons semi transparent
defaults write com.apple.Dock showhidden -boolean yes
#create a ‘recent items’ stack
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add ‘{ “tile-data” = { “list-type” = 1; }; “tile-type” = “recents-tile”; }’
#screen grabs in jpg
defaults write com.apple.screencapture type jpg
- Music by Juless
- Feedback by Mr Gadgets and Matt McGraw
- Join the community on Google+
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Cross-platform Instagram for your desktop : XnRetro.
May 09” Hey ! Lets take a 24 gazillion megapixel camera, make it portable and have it shoot high quality pictures. Then lets take an app that makes those pictures look like they were made by a 25 year old throwaway camera” … said “Somebody” “Once”. … However unlikely the idea might have been at the time, Instagram is massively popular these days. Almost every snapshot we take with this popular app gets filtered and warped into something that looks just a liiiiitle more artistic then the shot we just made. All cool as kittens on a spaceship … but what if we want to do the same on our desktop.
The defence calls upon XnRetro your Honor ! This “Instagram clone for ‘real computers'” lets you tinker around with your screenshots to your hearts desire. Throw some filters, borders and light effects around and presto .. there is that one picture of you in your batman suit, hanging from the ceiling chandelier wearing pink mittens. But now it looks like it has been taken in the 60’s … so you have plausible denial. Once satisfied you can save the pictures OR export them to social-space with the “Share funtionality”
XnRetro (from the makers of Xnview) is a slider friendly application that runs on Windows, Macs, Linux machines and coffee machines who are so dirty they have become sentient. (We haven’t tested it on the latter). The app is functional and free .. So we love it like lolcats ! To prove it works here is a picture of me and my dog, traveling back to the 30’s, taking a picture and leaving it to rot in drawer for 80 years so we could scan it in and put it up here .. for no reason.
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Kc307 : "A Sliders workstation"
Aug 12We take a deep technical dive into the “sliders workstation” and how you can “do your computer thing” independant of hardware, operating systems and software and slide from OS to OS. We talk about hardware, browser platform, desktop productivity, communications, entertainment and storage and how to do it between all of your different devices. This is the “sliders 101” of cross platform computing.
Shownotes
- Intro
- Hardware
- Operating System
- Browser platform
- Applification Software to “applify” Webapps
- Extentions
- Office and Wordprocessing
- Google Docs
- Google Apps
- Gliffy
- Mindmeister
- Openoffice.
- Todo :
- Multimedia
- Content Consumption
- Music
- Podcasts
- Downcast IOS (Tablet and Phone)
- Doggcatcher
- Screencasts
- Ted – Revision Three – Kahn Academy
- eBooks
- Calibre (IOS – WIN – LIN )
- Ebook Library on Dropbox or shared partition
- RSS
- Content Creation
- Communication
- Storage
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
- Portable Storage
- Shared Partitions
- Central File storage (Samba – NasDrive – SSH mounts)
- Offline Life ?
- Gmail Offline Chrome extention
- Googledrive + Dropbox for offline sync
- Signoff
- New Google Voice number for US listeners : (218) 262-9237