Mac OS X

Mac OS X — 1 Comment
16
Jun 12

Text Ex Machina

Looking through my server logs, I noticed that when I moved my blog I somehow forgot to update my TextMate theme! Apparently someone likes it, because it’s been mirrored on the TextMate User Submitted Themes page, but I’ve also re-uploaded it here for anyone who’s interested.

Download TextExMachina.tmTheme

theme screenshot

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Mac OS X — 10 Comments
12
Mar 12

MacFusion on OS X Lion

It looks like the “latest” version of MacFusion and MacFUSE (sarcasm quotes because neither have been updated in a very long time) doesn’t work with OS X Lion 64-bit—at least it didn’t for me. I kept seeing this error in /var/log/system.log:

macfusionAgent[849]: dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/lib/libfuse.0.dylib
Referenced from: /Applications/Utilities/Macfusion.app/Contents/PlugIns/sshfs.mfplugin/Contents/Resources/ss
hfs-static

Yeah, that’s because /usr/local/lib/libfuse.0.dylib doesn’t exist. This site pointed me in the right direction, though. Install this version of MacFUSE and all will be well:

http://www.tuxera.com/mac/macfuse-core-10.5-2.1.9.dmg

Any superior alternatives to MacFusion someone can point me to?

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Mac OS X / Ruby — 4 Comments
23
Dec 11

Restarting Pow when DNS stops responding

I love Pow, the Rack-based development web server from 37signals, but one thing I can’t stand is how sometimes it stops responding to DNS for no reason in particular.

Well, Mike Sutton figured out how to fix it, and I turned it into a Bash script. Just save this as pow-restart (or whatever) and run it whenever you start having issues:

#!/bin/bash
# Restarts Pow when DNS fails to resolve
lsof | grep 20560 | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
launchctl unload ~/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist
launchctl load ~/Library/LaunchAgents/cx.pow.powd.plist
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Mac OS X — No Comments
6
Dec 08

Quick tip: Converting DMG to ISO

Save this as dmg2iso and run from the terminal:

#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
    echo "Usage: ${0##*/} <file>"
    exit 1
fi

file=${1%.dmg}
hdiutil makehybrid ${file}.dmg -o $file
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Mac OS X — 3 Comments
5
May 08

Color Picker for OS X

This morning I needed to choose a hex color, but I didn’t have easy access to the Color Picker utility in Mac OS X. So I spent about 15 minutes creating a Color Picker.app utility and installed some plugins. Yes, you can install plugins for Color Picker.

Download Color Picker.app here.

Just drag to /Applications/Utilities/ and then you can find the Color Picker in Spotlight.

While you’re at it, make Color Picker more useful by installing these plugins:

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