Software Notes

pwyky

• pwyky edit bookmarklet // pwyky edit (customised)

• @meta/about

• Original pwyky

• Modified pwyky version Notes on modified pwyky version

• Modified Pwyky Formatting

• "to pwyky link" bookmarklet (based on "Copy Title, URL, and Selected Text into Text Field" bookmarklet) :

javascript:(function(s){try{ s=document.selection.createRange().text}catch(_){s=document.getSelection()}prompt('','{'+location + ' '+s + '}')})()

pyblosxom

• importing advogato entries to pyblosxom

django

• Wiki implementations: One Two

Image Processing

• Creating Images with Numpy

AppleScript

• If APP_PATH contains a Unix-style path name (e.g. "/Applications/TextEdit.app" then the following should work from a bash shell script to launch an OS X application ( run could be used instead of launch as they each do slightly different things):

osascript -e "launch application ((POSIX file \"${APP_PATH}\") as string)"

• When I didn't have the above application launch working correcting I got this error:

 syntax error: Can't get application ... (-1728)

• Original source for How to convert a Unix path to a Mac OS X path, and the other way.

• Further information on Applescript, Mac OS X file paths and Unix/POSIX file paths.

• Much verbiage on osascript, shebang, and unicode arguments.

KiCad

• Learning About KiCad -- my notes

• Notes on KiCad -- by someone else

Cinepaint

• Tried to get MacCinePaint-0.21-2.nativ running on Mac OS X 10.2.8 whose README states "This version requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later." But on launch it crashes with:

gtk_init
GTKMacSetup()
dyld: <path>/CinePaint.app/Contents/Resources/usr/local/bin/cinepaint
Undefined symbols: "_CFLocaleCopyCurrent"

• "Making Carbon code compatible with earlier versions of OSX" -- Refers to CFLocaleCopyCurrent as "defined in CoreService 10.3 or later but not in earlier versions".

Mozilla Firefox

• As of 20-November-2007 / Firefox 2.0 the file sessionstore.js is not fully JSON-compatible despite what people say. It's almost JSON-compatible and you may get some instances which are compatible but it's also possible to get instances of the file that aren't. Related pages: sessionstore.js python and demjson, Session Restore, nsSessionStore.js, [SessionStore] Correctly JSON-ify the API, Native JSON support, convert session store to JSON, Reference to #1= JavaScript syntax

Ubuntu

• UbuntuNotes

SVN

• Supply username like this:

svn --username <username> ....

• I compiled SVN 1.0.9 successfully on Mac OS X 10.2 using Subversion Unix source from here. At this stage I have successfully checked out and committed to a http svn URL. I haven't tried compiling any later versions.

• To create and populate (with blank directory) a new local repository:

# Create respository
svnadmin create /Users/<username>/_svn

# Import empty directory
mkdir <modulename>
cd <modulename>
# Imports current directory
svn import -m "<message>" . file:///Users/<username>/_svn/

# Move to new location (and/or remove the initial imported directory)
# and then checkout the module...
svn checkout file:///Users/<username>/_svn/ <modulename>

Blender

• See: Learning About Blender

Thunderbird

• Bug 302386 – Add ability to auto sync imap folders offline store when folders are opened or checked for new mail
• Bug 329229 – Download imap messages for offline use immediately

VirtualBox

• See: Learning About VirtualBox

AVR MacPack

• (AVRMacPack-20080716) Attempting to run avrdude produces the following:

 $ avrdude -p atmega3290 -c avrisp -P /dev/ttyS0 -t -v -F

  dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libusb-0.1.4.dylib
    Referenced from: /usr/local/AVRMacPack/bin/avrdude
    Reason: image not found
  Trace/BPT trap

• This seems to result from libusb not being installed as expected. I fixed this by installing from source: libusb-0.1.12.tar.gz. I don't see mentioned anywhere else that 0.1.12 actually produces binaries named libusb-0.1.4.dylib and the like.

iTunes

• iTunes is completely stupid. When moving between versions if it can't find songs it assumes they're 1.64GB in size. It also does this for podcasts except by default you can't see the size of them.

S5

• Glossdeck Presentation Theme for S5

pilot-link

• I managed to get pilot-link 0.12.3 installed on Mac OS X 10.5 and here are some notes:

# If you don't '--enable-conduits' you won't get the "userland" tools like 'pilot-xfer'
./configure --enable-conduits

# Note: If you don't build the conduits (and even if you do?)
# the contactdb test will throw an error due to
# a lack of popt--if you don't have it.
# (So you'll need to remove it from 'noinst_PROGRAMS' in the tests Makefile.)
make
sudo make install

• To back up my Treo 180 I used:

# Run this first, then press the HotSync button
/usr/local/bin/pilot-xfer --port usb: -b <backup directory path>

• To back up my Treo 650 over Bluetooth I used:

$ /usr/local/bin/pilot-xfer --port /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync -b <backup directory path>

# If you get the following error, try disabling HotSync in the desktop HotSync Manager:
#   Unable to bind to port: /dev/tty.Bluetooth-PDA-Sync

Palm Desktop 4.0 for Macintosh

• This fails to install from the installer "Palm Desktop Installer" contained in MacDesktop_40_TV.sit out of the box on Mac OS X 10.5 on an Intel machine.

• I found an article Palm Desktop Won't Install? You're Not Root which has some suggestions. I didn't want to muck around with changing the user account I was using so I made use of sudo instead.

• Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure what combination produces the entirely correct result (even currently there's no icon showing for the "HotSync Manager" even though at one stage there was). Still, some combination of these commands seemed to work:

# Run the "Palm Desktop Installer" as a normal user and do a normal install

# Then...
sudo Palm\ Desktop\ Installer/Contents/Resources/Install\ Utility/Contents/MacOS/InstallerWrapper
sudo open Palm\ Desktop\ Installer/Contents/MacOSClassic/Installer
sudo open Palm\ Desktop\ Installer/Contents/Resources/Install\ Utility/Contents/Resources/IM_Installer # Maybe not?

• One commenter on the above article suggested using the 4.2 application even though it doesn't supposedly support older model devices.

• Some other comments: HotSync Manager problem

• There may be better ways to run the GUI application as a root/administrator—I may even have used them at one time...

avarice and Mac OS X

• [AVaRICE-user] At last, avarice works with USB for me on Mac OS X (sort of)
• [AVaRICE-user] Compile failing on OS X Leopard
• [AVaRICE-user] USB on Mac OS/X at last!