MacDevCenter.com — Xcode for the Rest of Us

MacDevCenter.com — Xcode for the Rest of Us:

Why PackageMaker?

PackageMaker was designed to simplify the creation of installation packages, and to provide a simple, repeatable installation experience for your end users. But what is a package?

A good walkthrough of how to use PackageMaker to build setup packages, so you can push installs of any given file or application easily, and with the full suite of OS X Server you can build package sets and netboot images which install every program you need, with the updated (or thoroughly tested) versions, with customizations per machine…

Part of being a Mac tech is letting the OS do the work and letting you be lazy… Take the time to learn the tools and you’ll never have to work as hard.
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A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail

A List Apart: Articles: In Search of the Holy Grail:

A recent project has brought my personal grail quest to an end. The technique I’ll describe will allow you to deploy the Holy Grail layout without compromising your code or your flexibility. It will:

1. have a fluid center with fixed width sidebars,
2. allow the center column to appear first in the source,
3. allow any column to be the tallest,
4. require only a single extra div of markup, and
5. require very simple CSS, with minimal hacks patches.

This is a simple, elegant solution for what can be the hardest layout to implement on a website, yet the most readable and clean looking. Also, his solution works on all the good browsers, needs only one tiny fix for IE6… It doesn’t work in IE5, but anyone who’s using IE5 needs to have their computer euthanized for being a menace to web designers and the community as a whole.

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Scanner Photography

Scanner Photography:

Several years ago, I built my first homemade digital camera. The idea was simple – I would take an ordinary flatbed scanner, and use it in place of photo paper with a large format camera.

My first scanner camera was made from lots of duct tape, a cardboard box, and the cheapest flatbed scanner that I could find. I expected this to be a quick little art project, one that would take a week or two at the most. But when I got my first homemade digital camera to work, I noticed that some wonderful things were beginning to happen.

The objects in the scene that were stationary photographed normally, while the objects that were moving were twisted and distorted into wonderful shapes. At first, I thought that this was a mistake, that something was wrong with my new contraption. But I soon realized that the motion of the scanner was meshing with the motion of the recorded scene, creating unexpected, yet predictable, results. These motion distortions are similar to the effect created by moving a sheet on a photocopier mid-copy, except that they extend into three dimensions and only effect objects in motion.

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Self-Reliant Filmmaking

Self-Reliant Filmmaking :

I just thought I’d post links to a few and people can explore them (or not). Besides these links, those that are interested should check out Nuts and Bolts Filmmaking by Dan Rahmel, which has a lot of DIY projects, as well as other useful information.

Do it yourself file-making equipment, for a variety of purposes, mostly on the cheap, along with a discussion of the pros-and-cons of using pre-existing equipment vs. making your own.

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AFP548 – Document Management in the Fresh Air

AFP548 – Document Management in the Fresh Air:

Alfresco is a fun open source project that I’ve been playing around with lately. It’s similar to EMC’s Documentum, which if you’ve never played with allows you to create workflows for documents.

Testing this shortly for how it could work as a workflow manager for a Prepress department, will keep updated on results.

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Style guide – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Style guide – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:

The Wikipedia entry regarding Style Guides for publication. Useful for advice on how to format your work, how to cite other works, in some cases even proper use of vocabulary in certain types of works.

iSquint

iSquint:

iSquint is an iPod video conversion app. It’s up to 5 times faster than Apple’s method, works well with AVIs and MPEGs, and it’s infinitely free-er.
It’s also really easy.

I’ve wanted to convert all my video into formats iTunes could read and catalog, so that I can organize everything into there… This looks like it’ll do it.

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Minimoog

Minimoog:

Minimoog

 

After playing on many different synths and copying several designs. I  decided that I had to have a minimoog…

Unfortunately the cost of a second hand minimoog is anything between £1000-£2000 depending on age and condition. So the only choice I have is to look at doing my own copy with the aim of keeping the circuits and design as original as possible.

Having never played one, or seen one until a few months ago I have managed to amass a reasonable collection of circuits and pictures in order to help me in my quest.

I have to thank the owner of fantasyjackpalance

 http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/sound/synth/synthdata/16-moog-minimoog.html

For a fantastic site full of minimoog information. The pics in particularly have been invaluable. I have been fortunate enough also to photograph and measure up an early model D.

Macintosh Weblog Software

I have just been turned onto Ecto for weblog posting… So far I’m quite amused.

It seems to make some of the various linking bits between Amazon, ITMS, photos, etc…, really quick. It seems to play very nice with WordPress and Blogger, so I’m covered there… And for those of you on the dark side, it seems that there’s a Windows version too. So, give it a try at the link above when you get the chance… So far I am more impressed with this than Marsedit.

EXTERMINATE!! (Or, How to build your own Daleks)

We were the very first site devoted to the building of the Dalek, and it is still our intent to supply all the information you’ll need to produce an accurate full size working Dalek as seen in the long running BBC TV series Dr Who.

DalekCity – The Online Home of the Dalek Builders’ Guild