Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 18 Feb 2010
Setting up Octave and Gnuplot on OSX
Good instructions are here.
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MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Software and Tips & Tricks and Workflow Tobi on 27 Dec 2009
PDF OCR Batch-processing with ScanSnap
The ScanSnap S1500M (but also the S1500 as well as the earlier models S510 and S510M) comes with ABBYY FineReader for OCR support. This is great for creating searchable PDFs. Especially handy on a Mac with Spotlight. The problem is that in the default setup, each scan is OCRed right after the scan and depending [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 19 Jun 2009
Installing iPhone SDK 2.x on PPC
This post is really just an edited summary of instructions found elsewhere. I used instructions from two sources (here incl. comments, and here), the first of which is slightly outdated and incomplete. Here’s the full story:
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 13 Jan 2009
Welcome to 2001 – Windows 7 Gets a “Dock”, too!
Excerpt form an Ars Technica Article on the Windows 7 UI: An icon on the taskbar doesn’t necessarily mean that a program is running; programs can be pinned to the taskbar so that their icon is persistent. Clicking the icon starts the program (if it’s not running) or switches to it (if it is). …featured [...]
Mac OS X Platform and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 30 Oct 2008
BOM-files – What do/did Mac OS X Package Installers Install?
The answer can be found in the so-called BOM-files, which stands for Bill Of Material. More information about bom files be found in the Apple Developed Connection (ADC) bom man page, or by typing man bom in the terminal. These files are buried inside installer packages as well as in receipts of already installed programs. [...]
Mac OS X Platform Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
“Secure Empty Trash” and “Delete Free Space” Details
Recently I found out about a nice feature of Mac OS X’s Disk Utility: The ability to securely delete unused space. Huh? – you might say – why do that? Well, one nice feature of the Finder is that you can securely empty the trash. This not only removed information about the file from the [...]
MS-Windows Platform and Mac OS X Platform and Telecommunications and Tips & Tricks Tobi on 10 Oct 2008
Export Outlook Mail PST-Files to the Mac
While there are multiple software solutions that cost money, I prefer the free alternatives. In this case it comes in the form of Mozilla Thunderbird, and to be more precise, the Windows version. Thunderbird’s import function imports your current Microsoft Outlook folders including attachments and all. It also has options for Outlook Express and other [...]