http://tomyeah.com Everyday findings on the internet and homemade tools. Topics are photography and coding. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:25:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought if I was able to play .flac files in iTunes I got the maximum audio quality out of my iMac. If you are interested in how to achieve this, read this post. Later I found fluke which made life a bit easier, since the annoying import process was disposed. ... http://tomyeah.com/the-ultimate-audio-guide-for-mac-os-x-106/ When loading big .mkv files(like 3-5Gb) into VLC with hd content and maybe even subtitle tracks you'll notice slow loading times. You'll although notice that OS X is building up a huge pagefile because it eats up your memory, requests virtual memory and thus starts paging to the hdd. To speed ... http://tomyeah.com/improving-vlcs-mkv-playback-in-mac-os-x/ To get the usb connected Xbox Controller S working in Windows XP was quite easy using the XBCD drivers. But installing them on a Windows 7 (64 Bit) system was quite a challenge due to the lack of information. If you read about this topic you'll find many tutorials in forums on ... http://tomyeah.com/howto-get-the-xbox-controller-s-working-in-windows-7-64-bit/ If you like Chrome and use Snow Leopard it is quite hard to surf without sending all kinds of statistics to google. In Windows there has always been a proper alternative named Iron. Lately I found this blog post, telling that they have a stable version for MacOS now. You can ... http://tomyeah.com/howto-disable-spellchecking-in-srware-iron-chromium-for-os-x/ In Windows 7 I'm using Shark007's codec pack along with the 64-bit components. Special codecs like nvidia purevideo, CoreAVC or the Cyberlink 264/AVC codec help you to get real smooth HD playback. Especially in 1080p movies the visual difference between two frames is so broad that you need to interpolate ... http://tomyeah.com/smooth-video-playback-in-mac-os-x-snow-leopard/ I got tired again of developing in Windows XP. Since my Vista destroyed itself within a micro second XP was my last hope. I thought it must be possible to code stuffs in Mac OS X Leopard too. I tried installing the old Eclipse 3.2.1 because of the one and ... http://tomyeah.com/qt4c-development-with-leopard/ Coming back to coding Actionscript after a while I noticed that you got to fix more and more bugs over the years of Flash development. Yes there were many limitations with AS1.0 and AS2.0 using Macromedia Flash, MX and CS, but the recent movements in Adobe's labs make me wonder ... http://tomyeah.com/flex-sdk-with-actionscript-3-using-webservices/ On of my HDD's crashed and my old 10.4.6 install was on that drive. Of course I do create backups of all my data regularly and nothing was lost but time. So I thought I could try Leopard on this occasion. Kalyway 10.5.2 for AMD didn't boot at all. Next ... http://tomyeah.com/mac-os-x86-1052-on-amd-sse2-the-challenge/ In one of my earlier posts i was talking about my favorite image viewer for windows. So far i've been using PicturePopProCM 2 for viewing pictures instantly fullscreen out of the finder. But there were a few annoyances, like option click for accessing into the context menu plugin or the ... http://tomyeah.com/my-favorite-image-viewer-for-mac-os-x/ This time i wanted to post-process my exported Lightroom images without opening Photoshop. So i decided to use ImageMagick which has helped me before in lots of other situations. The task was to realize some very fine sharpening and frame the image with some very simple white line and some ... http://tomyeah.com/lightroom-post-processing-with-imagemagick/ In my case i wanted to apply some extra sharpening after Lightroom exported some RAW files. But if you want, you can apply this tutorial to any other Photoshop actions: framing, noise reduction and whatever. Step 1 Create your Photoshop action. Step 2 Create a Droplet for your Photoshop action. Save the Droplet to your ... http://tomyeah.com/lightroom-post-processing-with-photoshop-actions/ Since Parallels doesn't like .bin/.cue images, i had to convert it into an .iso image. A few guides pointed out that simple renaming of the files might be enough, but that didn't work at all. So i was searching for free-ware solutions and couldn't find anything. Toast Titanium was the ... http://tomyeah.com/howto-convert-bin-cue-to-iso-in-mac-os-x/ Got this error message when I tried to install Parallels Desktop Build 3188 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 . Parallels Desktop cannot be installed on this Computer. Make sure your system meets the requirements. Found this easy guide: HowTo Install Parallels on AMD64. Worked for me. http://tomyeah.com/parallels-desktop-cannot-be-installed-on-this-computer/ I wanted a css design with 100% height for some recent project. The middle centered column should just fill the whole page in height without forcing scroll bars. But somehow its buggy on a few browsers. I found this hack in the web which works quite nice at first glance. html ... http://tomyeah.com/css-100-percent-height/ I just came to Webkit. At first it looked like a new browser to me like Shiira or OmniWeb. But than somebody told me it is just the "thing" behind the scenes that drives lots of browsers on OS X.So I downloaded the latest nightly build of Webkit and started ... http://tomyeah.com/webkit-the-better-safari/ Color perception is subject to ambient light levels, and the ambient white point. (A red object looks black in blue light.) It is therefore not possible to achieve calibration that will be perceived evenly in different lighting conditions. The computer display and calibration target will have to be considered in ... http://tomyeah.com/monitor-color-calibration-for-free-using-your-dslr/ I've just released this template for pixelpost v1.6.Features: minimalistic design like iWeb's black theme slide-out panel for comments photo strip with modified Reflection.js by neondragon slideshow feature by jdleung Download: macstyle_v1.2.zip (88KB) ! Please read the included readme.txt first ... http://tomyeah.com/pixelpost-template-macstyle/ I tried to install the Cache package for PEAR on Mac OS X 10.4.8 ( xampp installed ). Got the error message: No handlers for package.xml version 2.0 Found the following solution: pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.3.6 Archive_Tar-1.3.1 Console_Getopt-1.2pear upgrade --force PEAR-1.4.11pear upgrade PEAR Than i was able to install 'HTTP_Request' and 'Cache'. Update: that was ... http://tomyeah.com/phppear-installation-problems/ Sometimes it is not that easy to tell people how to use wordpress admin interface for writing posts or even upload images. Sometimes you have to make it even simpler than simple. I was looking into wp-mail.php at my wordpress installation and tried to figure out how to modify it for ... http://tomyeah.com/wordpress-blog-images-via-email/ In the old days I was a big fan of ACDSee 4.0 , but it lacks of proper RAW support, because I always had problems with their buggy RAW plugin. The following versions became slower and slower and slower, not really usable in terms of speed. Next I became a user ... http://tomyeah.com/my-favorite-image-viewer-for-windows/ I hate it when there starts a hidden process in the background, your hdd's start spinning and rumbling and you don't know whats happening. That doesn't only happen in Linux (amarok http cache cleaner) or in Windows. This time it is Mac OS X and the funny thing is that ... http://tomyeah.com/the-random-os-x-crashes/ After trying so many tutorials and installing so many tools i finally made it. Front Row 1.3 is running smoothly on my 10.4.8 AMD , and no illegal hacks were needed. At first i tried this Front Row guide bei Andrew Escobar and ofcourse it was not working and ofcourse it ... http://tomyeah.com/howto-get-front-row-13-working-on-1048-amdintel/ Well, i wanted to import my .ogg and .flac into iTunes but ... you know the story. After 2 days of trying to compile amarok with kde3 and making it run natively with quartz-wm, i gave up. The next day i found this nice blog post about adding ogg and flac ... http://tomyeah.com/flac-and-ogg-support-for-itunes-import-and-play/ I've been using the bitvise Tunnelier for quite some time now in Windows XP and it is a real pleasure to use this easy tool. For Mac OS X i couln't find a tool like that until i came to the SSH Tunnel Manager . It is even easier to use ... http://tomyeah.com/http-tunnel-via-ssh-for-windows-xp-and-mac-os-x/ Ok, i guess everybody noticed that importing adserver lists from websites like yoyo brings down most input managers for Safari. Even the userContent.css from floppymoose is slowing down the tab creation process in Safari. After testing a lot with diffrent solutions i made up this final one: Get the host list for ... http://tomyeah.com/safari-adblock-without-losing-performance/