Here’s what the output looks like:

This is a full 8.5″ x 11″ scan, as you can see it simply prints each “page” using 1/2 the sheet.

Mac OS X

1. Open the print dialog.
2. Expand the print dialog into advanced mode. (see figure macosx-expand)
3. Switch to Layout settings. (see figure macosx-layout)
4. Apply the setting, Pages per Sheet: 2. (see figure macosx-print)
5. Save as a Preset. (see figure macosx-preset)

That’s it. All the other settings remain how they originally were, you do not need to adjust anything else.

Grabs URL from Safai:

tell application "Safari"
    set longURL to (get URL of front document)
end tell

do shell script "curl http://bit.ly/api?url=" & longURL
set shortURL to the result

set the clipboard to (shortURL as text)

Grabs URL from the clipboard:

set longURL to (the clipboard as text)

do shell script "curl http://bit.ly/api?url=" & longURL
set shortURL to the result

set the clipboard to (shortURL as text)

Then right-click (control-click) on any folder in Finder, go to More, and then to Configure Folder Actions…

Make sure you check Enable Folder Actions, then click the + button under the Folder with Actions column.

Select a folder in the Podcasts folder (of your iTunes library), press Open.

Select the action, add – new item sync iPod, press Attach.

You should see something like this:

Script text:

(*
add - new item sync iPod

When a new item is added to the folder it triggers iTunes to do
an iPod sync.

Useful when you manually manage but want to be sure to have
fresh podcasts on your iPod. Unfortunately you have to setup
this folder action for each folder in the Podcast folder.
*)

on adding folder items to this_folder after receiving added_items
    try
        tell application "iTunes"
            repeat with s in sources
                if (kind of s is iPod) then update s
            end repeat
        end tell
    end try
end adding folder items to

Here’s to a new heatsink!

#!/bin/bash
function burn {
    echo "Starting burn-in test"
    yes > /dev/null &
    yes > /dev/null &
    echo "Press enter to stop"
    read
    echo "Killing processes"
    killall yes
}
time burn

Cheers.

tell application "System Events"
    set visible of ¬
        (every process whose visible is true ¬
            and frontmost is false ¬
            and name does not start with "Finder") to false
end tell

Alternate method:

tell application "Finder" to activate
tell application "System Events"
    click menu item "Hide Others" of ¬
        ((process "Finder")'s (menu bar 1)'s ¬
            (menu bar item "Finder")'s (menu "Finder"))
end tell
tell application "Finder" to close window 1

As usual I highly recommend binding this to a Quicksilver trigger.

Related previous entries:

1. Eject All Quicksilver Trigger
2. Lock your Mac’s Screen

I use +’s to show where I have entered a new line, if you copy and paste then remove the +’s and reconnect the text.

In AppleScript form:

try
    do shell script "/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu\ Extras/+
        +User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend"
end try

In Bash form:

#!/bin/bash
/System/Library/CoreServices/Menu Extras/
User.menu/Contents/Resources/CGSession -suspend

I recommend the AppleScript way, it is just easier and I believe supported out-of-the-box with Quicksilver. To use the Bash version you would have to install the Terminal plug-in for Quicksilver.

Create a file, or download either of mine (AppleScript or Bash). Don’t forget to add execute permission if you choose the bash form.

chmod +x lockscreen.sh

As usual Quicksilver triggers can make any script even more powerful, i.e., lock your screen at the touch of a button.

Related previous entries:

1. HOWTO: Eject All Quicksilver Trigger

His code gave me several errors, which I am pretty sure at least one was because of the bash to HTML conversion. So I wanted to get it working so I played around with it and got it to do what Andrew said it should do. Then I modified it to use the same idea as absolute vs relative paths. If it is a truncated path it will not have a preceding / (or ~). It extends on my previous suggestion, [Better Terminal Prompt][2], so show the username in green (as opposed to red for root).

My profile is available as a [text file][file] and shown below:

# Function that returns the last n path components of the specified
# path after replacing $HOME with ~.  Call like:
#     breadcrumbs path n
function breadcrumbs
{
    echo $1 | sed "s|^$HOME|~|" | awk -v n=$2 '{
        # Split the path into components
        count = split($0, components, "/");

        # If there are less than n components, print the whole path
        if (count = n) {
            for (i = count - n + 1; i

In the section you copied from the INSTALL file you need to add “-arch ppc” to the CFLAGS.

...
EXTRA_CLIBS="-L${NETCDF}/lib -lnetcdf "
CFLAGS="-arch ppc -g $CFLAGS ${EXTRA_CFLAGS}"
CLIBS="$CLIBS ${EXTRA_CLIBS} "

Then you must edit the existing mexopts.sh’s Mac section. For each of the compiler’s debug flags add “-arch ppc”.

xDEBUGFLAGS='-arch ppc -g'

1. Open Mail.app.
2. Open Preferences.
3. Select the Accounts button located at the top of the window.
4. Select your IMAP account from the Accounts list.
5. Select the Special Mailboxes tab.
6. Uncheck all the checkboxes labeled “Store draft/sent/junk/trash on the server.”
7. Close the Accounts window and when prompted save your changes.
8. Now select the Drafts/Sent/Junk/Trash folder and from the Mailbox menu select Use This Mailbox For Drafts/Sent/Junk/Trash.
9. The selected folder will disappear from your mailbox list, and will now appear as the corresponding Mail.app special folder.

Note: I had to quit Mail.app to be able to see some of the Mail.app’s special folders. Until I restarted Mail.app they just disappeared.

Anyways if you want to install DarwinPorts somewhere other than /opt/local you have to download the source and do the standard ./configure && make && sudo make install. There are a couple options that are useful for the configure script:

--prefix=/Users/nnutter/Applications/DarwinPorts/Tree
Default: /opt/local

--with-tclpackage=/Users/nnutter/Library/Tcl
Default: /Library/Tcl

./configure --prefix=whereever --with-tclpackage=wherever

I like to keep stuff in my home folder because it makes backups, upgrading, etc. easier. So I have Tcl and DarwinPorts residing in my home folder. Note that DarwinPorts depends on Tcl. If you hose your system you need Tcl installed in order for DarwinPorts to work which is why I moved its default location as well.

One more tip. If you build any Aqua programs, DarwinPorts will install them in /Applications/DarwinPorts. To make this work with my home folder issue just link that folder to your home folder.

sudo ln -s /Users/nnutter/Applications/DarwinPorts 
/Applications/DarwinPorts

I am also looking into another topic, the possibility of building DarwinPorts and its ports as fat binaries, i.e. i386 and PPC. I have my reasons…