Rage Against The Mac

Just playing.

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I used my new suction cup mount on yesterday’s run to take some pictures while driving. When I got home and started sifting through them, I realized I (barely) had enough for a short QuickTime movie. I took the 146 still shots and created a new QuickTime movie, and then brought that into iMovie so I could add a soundtrack. It isn’t much (in fact, it’s so silly I’m wondering why I bothered…), but I’ll probably try to do more like this in the future.

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I’ve updated my Flickr Bookmarklets that I originally introduced in January ‘06. They’ve now got their own page, and I’ll make changes and updates there.

I’m loving iSquint for converting videos to formats that are QuickTime and/or iPod friendly, but was frustrated with the inability to open videos with it from the Finder (right-click, “Open With”). A little hacking of the Info.plist and a rebuild of LaunchServices and I’m in business.

First, make a backup of iSquint.app/Contents/Info.plist and then open the original with either Property List Editor or your favorite editor (TextMate, in my case). Now, modify the CFBundleTypeExtensions array (reference) so that it has the video extensions you wish to handle. Looking at VLC, I came up with the following (for the entire CFBundleTypeExtensions key):

    <key>CFBundleDocumentTypes</key>
    <array>
        <dict>
            <key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
            <array>
                <string>3gp</string>
                <string>avi</string>
                <string>mov</string>
                <string>mp4</string>
                <string>mpeg</string>
                <string>mpg</string>
                <string>wmv</string>
            </array>
            <key>CFBundleTypeName</key>
            <string>DocumentType</string>
            <key>CFBundleTypeRole</key>
            <string>Editor</string>
        </dict>
    </array>

I’m not sure how long it would take for this to appear in the Finder normally, but I had to rebuild the LaunchServices database anyway. Once that was done, I was in business!

... “as a Christian Web Developer, I must say [bla bla bla, nothing related to religion at all].”

What, pray tell, is a “Christian Web Developer”?

Do you cry out “Jesus saves!” before saving your code?

“Praise the Lord” with every semicolon?

“Amen!” when compiling might be apt, however…

Zach suggests every variable begins with “WWJD_”.

These guys are starting to piss me off.

Both Web and IMAP services are failing to authenticate. Grrrr.

This site’s been down for, what, 2 weeks? 3? Something like that. Doubt anyone noticed, but that’s ok. I’ve moved, and the server’s moved, died, and the pieces are being picked up and reassembled on this trusty (borrowed) Mac. Time to do some backups, I think…

Update: Something changed on Flickr, so I have updated them on their own page

I’ve been posting a lot of Flickr images to vBulletin sites (like NAM) and found the number of steps required to come up with the proper post code to be a royal pain in the ass (like most things with vBulletin). Here’s a little bookmarklet that will pop up a JavaScript prompt containing the requisite code to display a medium-sized image with a link back to that image on Flickr:

Flickr to vBulletin

(wow, that was way more work to post to this entry with Textile than it should have been…)

When on an image’s page in Flickr (such as this one), click the bookmarklet, and you’ll be given the code that will look something like this:

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/blalor/89537398/in/set-72057594051954910/][img]http://static.flickr.com/31/89537398_971b3013bc.jpg[/img][/url]

Acutal job posting: PowerPoint MultiMedia Specialist

Fast growing Indianapolis-based company is currently seeking a experienced and technical savvy PowerPoint/Multimedia Specialist for their CS Department. Duties of this position would include but not limited to media integration, animation, formatting, vendor communication, training, developing time lines, and quality control checks…just to name a few.

Salary between 35k and 50k, depending on experience. Seriously. I only wish I was making this up!

This sweet-looking iPod Nano case popped up on my radar yesterday, courtesy of NetNewsWire and one of the 200 feeds I subscribe to:

It’s a carbon fibre and aluminum case that’s probably more pretty than truly effective at protecting the Nano in rough environments, but it’s just so darn sexy, I couldn’t pass it up. After emailing with Jason Anderson at C6 Manufacturing, I decided to order one. I still had a few bucks left in my Christmas budget, and we couldn’t have that, could we?

One of the comments I’d seen when reading about is that the back piece contains a hole to show off the iPod logo; said hole is where the belt clip meets the case and seems pretty likely to scratch the back of the iPod. Jason wasted no time in telling me that he’d be happy to have one made up without that hole just for me, and at no additional charge! Hopefully it’ll ship out on Friday and I’ll get it some time next week. I’ll post a review when I get it!