January 2, 2011

Announcing NotiPod

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — delx @ 11:53 pm

A very small (~25KiB compressed) Python Cocoa GUI app for synchronising iTunes playlists to any folder mounted on your Mac. I use this to sync my music and playlists from iTunes on my laptop to XBMC on my lounge media pc.

See the NotiPod project page

November 1, 2009

Nokia N97 and Apple iSync

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — delx @ 10:09 am

I bought my Nokia N97 early July, just a few days after the Australia release. I’ve been enjoying this great device since then desspite its bugs. The most notable of which was that unlike my previous Nokia S60 it would not cooperate with iSync. Thankfully the recently released firmware update (V20.0.019) fixes this problem.

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April 26, 2009

Fink for Mac OS X package management

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , — delx @ 11:34 am

Fink is a package management system for Mac OS X. If you’re new to Fink read on for a description of how it works.

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November 12, 2008

HFS+ auto defragmentation of files under Mac OS X

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , — delx @ 1:14 pm

HFS+ automatically defragments files as they are used. When a fragmented file is opened, if the system has been up for 3 minutes, the file is not busy and is under 20MiB in size then it will be relocated to be in a contiguous section of the disk

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