All posts tagged with 'Tipps'

Make Gimp.app usable on a mac

22-Jun-07

This is by far the best tip ever for Gimp.app on OS X: Enable click-through in X11.app (using quartz-wm) With this enabled you don’t have to click twice on a Gimp window for using a tool. Great! Found on binblog.de

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Editing muxed mpeg1 and mpeg2 files for free on the mac

07-Jun-07

I recently had 2 muxed mpeg1 movies from my digital stil cam. They played nicely with my Quicktime 7.0 Pro with installed perian. Sound was also available without the seperate buyable QT MPEG-2 component. Nevertheless i couldn’t export these files to mpeg4 for example for uploading them to youtube. Apple clearly states: When you export […]

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Using TextMate within Safari and others

22-May-07

Textmate comes with an Mac OS X input manager so it can be used in all Cocoa applications as an editing app with all goodies textmate has to offer (spellchecking, syntax highlighting just to name two). All you need to do is describe in detail here. Not all apps are cocoa, so is Firefox. But […]

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A little vpn zoo

18-May-07

I have the need to use both Cicso Systems VPN Client as well as Watchguard Mobile Users VPN Client on Microsoft Windows (2000 and XP). I’ll never understand, why this stuff can’t be well standardized. It’s a little tricky installing both. First, install Ciscos Client, reboot, quit the client, removed it from autostart and then […]

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Removing 3rd party apps from .mac sync services

09-May-07

I recently tested Yojimbo and decided i have no use for this kind of tool, so i thrashed the app and all config files in my ~/Library. Some weeks later i reinstalled another Mac and set up the .Mac Synchronisation. No problem at all. I needed my ftp favorites on both machines so i turned […]

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