This is again more of a note to myself than a blog post… After upgrading my Mac OS X to Snow Leopard I’ve started to use the default 64bit Python 2.61 and consequently PyQt stopped working. I managed to get it back by compiling from source packages, with the instructions I found from this Finnish blog.

The Qt 4.5.3 installed from DMG didn’t work so first I compiled Qt 4.6RC (should have Snow Leopard support, this DMG might work) from source using:

./configure -arch x86_64
gmake
sudo gmake install

PyQt depends on SIP so next I installed sip-4.9.3:

python configure.py
make
sudo make install

And finally the actual PyQt 4.6.2:

python configure.py -q /usr/local/Trolltech/Qt-4.6.0/bin/qmake
make
sudo make install

And now: It works!

- Per prima cosa disintalla NTFS-3G/Paragon se li hai installati.
- Apri l’applicazione Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
- Dai il comando:

diskutil info /Volumes/volume_name" and copy the Volume UUID

- Fai un backup del file /etc/fstab se lo hai. In Snow Leopard non è presente di default.
- Dai quest’altro comando:

sudo nano /etc/fstab

- Inserisci la seguente stringa:

UUID=INCOLLA_QUI_IL_TUO_UUID none ntfs rw

Oppure se non hai l’UUID del disco:

LABEL=NOME_VOLUME none ntfs rw

- Ripeti l’operazione per tutti i dischi/le partizioni NTFS.

- Una volta finito salva il file (ctrl+x e poi y) e riavvia il sistema.

Enjoy

Edit: altra nuova versione dello script (con prompt per la risoluzione)

Non rassegnato all’idea che il mio scanner (Lide 20) non ne volesse sapere di funzionare su Snow Leopard (10.6.2), mi sono messo un po’ alla ricerca di possibili soluzioni.

La prima è di rinunciare, perché il software della canon non è compatibile con Snow Leopard.

La seconda è usare una soluzione commerciale come Vuescan, che sembra avere il sopporto per il Lide 20.

La terza è quella che ho scelto: scaricare sane per osx (leggete bene le istruzioni prima di installare), il backend opensource per molti scanner, e fare un semplice script con applescript che non mi facesse ogni volta scrivere i comandi sul terminale.

do shell script "/usr/local/bin/scanimage --format tiff -x 220 -y 300 --resolution 150dpi > ~/Desktop/scansione.tiff"

nuova versione (grazie Nemo)

choose file name with prompt "Inserisci il nome del file (SENZA ESTENSIONE)"
set nome_file to quoted form of POSIX path of result & ".tiff"
set risoluzione to "--resolution 150dpi > "
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/scanimage --format tiff -x 220 -y 300 " & risoluzione & nome_file


altra nuova versione (con un prompt per chiedere la risoluzione)

set res_value to "150"
tell application "Finder"
display dialog "Inserisci la risoluzione (150, 200, 300 dpi)" default answer res_value buttons {"OK"} default button 1
set res_value to text returned of result & "dpi"
end tell
choose file name with prompt "Inserisci il nome del file (SENZA ESTENSIONE)"
set nome_file to quoted form of POSIX path of result & "_" & res_value & ".tiff"
set risoluzione to "--resolution " & res_value & " > "
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/scanimage --format tiff -x 220 -y 300 " & risoluzione & nome_file


lo script si occupa di lanciare scanimage con i seguenti parametri: formato di output “tiff”, valori di x e y per un foglio A4, risoluzione di 150dpi chiede all’utente a che risoluzione vuole eseguire la scansione, e crea un file col nome indicato dall’utente a cui aggiunge il valore a cui si è eseguita la scansione. Il tutto va salvato come “applicazione” dalla finestra di salvataggio di applescript.

Se qualcuno avesse dei miglioramenti da apportare a questo barbaro script è il benvenuto (che so, aggiungere la maschera per scegliere il nome del file e la cartella dove metterlo; cambiare il valore della risoluzione…)

Whenever my mac halts on the spinning beach ball it must be doing something very important. Because macs don’t crash. Ever.
Check out the hilarious segment over at Gizmodo.

While we’re at it: Another annoyance that comes with migrating files from OS X to other OS:es are those ugly .DS_Store files that Finder persists on creating every time a directory is viewed.  Since I don’t wan’t them on my Linux machines, I’ve taken the habit of issuing this command before creating a tar archive in OS X:

for i in `find . -name "*DS_Store"`; do rm -i "$i"; done

Hello Viewers,

I know I’ve been quiet for some time. It’s been a year already since I moved to LA. I came with a MacBook 1st generation and a Compaq Presario Laptop. Now, a year later…my Macbook died and I sold that presario and an Asus EeePC 900HA that I purchased a few months after moving here.

Currently I’m working out of my MacBook Pro 13″ Aluminum that I purchased a couple of months ago and my iPhone 3G. I am officially a twitter addict and that’s the reason mainly why I have drifted away from wordpress.

I am in the process of acquiring a new Netbook because I miss the portability of one but not the compromises. I’m thinking of getting one with ION Graphics like the HP 311 or perhaps the Acer Aspire 1410 with Intel 4500HD. These are available with Windows 7, but I’ll wait until the holiday’s are gone and I have rounded up some money.

Also, I’m very intrigued about Android and Chrome OS. I think they are both great ideas but Google should have followed the path of the iPhone because if they do not focus on one specific device, it’ll become the next Windows Mobile…too many devices, not enough developers interested in developing apps for several screen sizes, hardware and users.

Another thing I’d like to say is that my Team, REAL MADRID are on the top of the spanish league.

The current range of Hardbox hard disk drives seems startlingly under-reviewed, so I am going to give you my thoughts on their desktop line.

The Hardbox drives are available in various capacities, but the one I have has a 250GB capacity. I bought it from the wonderful stockist Pine Digital Ltd.

The product that I have on my desk is large-ish and coloured in a striking orange and black scheme. The power cable is provided as is a USB cable. Once these are both plugged in, the drive boots up. I thought at first it’s a noisy racket, but compared to Seagate or WD offerings, it’s quite quiet. The exceedingly bright LED is a feature of annoyance, though – it lights up the whole room.

The drive seems to work happily enough (pre-formatted) like a plug-and-play device, and copying media through a USB hub is fast enough (no Firewire). There is also backup software for Windows users who don’t have Time Machine, which is good for Mac folk. The backup can be initiated by pushing the single, LED-ized button, which confusingly turns it on and off as well.

As functions and looks go, the drive is really just like any good one you can pick up, but from where I got it, quite a bit cheaper. The price per GB is good and the energy saving mode which stops the disk from “spinning” is very nice. In this mode, the stupid light is also dimmed slightly.

Over the course of time, the drive has filled slightly, but it’s big enough for a huge archive and I particularly commend its reliability – even without generally accepted precautions this drive keeps ticking.

I recommend this product with a 4/5 star rating – it is reliable and cheap, as well as easy to use, but the interface is a bit silly for me.

P.S. A good Christmas present and good for all kinds of storage – replace that CD cabinet in your father’s study, maybe?

Attention, ce post est en anglais ! La version française se trouve ici.
This post is in English !

Ok, let’s start. I decided to translate a part of this post for English-speaking people since I haven’t found any website talking about how to use Madobe Nanami’s sounds on OS X. And I’m sure a lot of otakus out there would like to do it, but may not know how to
I hope this post will be of some use to you.
I’ll make a step-by-step “guide”, but it’s not really complicated

This is what Madobe Nanami sounds like.

First, I advise you to make a copy of the sounds you are going to replace, and make a back-up of your system ! You don’t have to do it actually, but I like being cautious in case something goes wrong

1. You need to get the sounds somewhere from the web

2. If necessary, adjust the volume of the sounds to meet your expectations.

3. If necessary, convert the files to wave or mp3. These formats work with applications like Adium. I used wave in 48 000 Hz, 16 bits, mono.

4. For sounds used by the UI, you have to convert them to AIFF, or they won’t work. I know iTunes and QuickTime Pro convert files to AIFF.

5. Now, to replace the alert sound, go to System\Library\Sounds in the finder. Drop your file and go to the preferences panel, then Sound > Sound Effects, and choose from the list.

6. To replace UI sounds, go to System\Library\Components in the finder and show the package of CoreAudio.component. Now go to Contents\Resources\SystemSounds and there will be folders with the sounds you want to change.

7. It is also possible to add a sound when unmounting an image or a device. To do this, you need to download MacBarfX. Now mount the dmg file and show the package of the application. Open the Resources folder and replace barf.aiff by the sound you want.

When replacing some files, OS X will ask you to authenticate, and they will only work once you have rebooted.

You now have a nanamized Mac ! Have fun !

Hoy toca hablar del futuro sistema operativo de Apple. Todos sabemos que Apple, desde siempre, antes de terminar un sistema operativo ya está trabajando en el siguiente, en este caso la versión 10.7.

Snow Leopard se centró en mejorar todo su núcleo interno haciendo que nuestro Mac consiga rugir como nunca, pero en esta versión les va a tocar incluir nuevas funciones, para demostrar que Apple sigue llevando la delantera como siempre a hecho.

De momento Apple no ha dicho nada al respecto, manteniendo su estricta confidencialidad. Pero en la versión 10.6.2 se han descubierto algunos cambio en el proceso “launchd” que se encarga de supervisar y gestionar el arranque de sistema.

En concreto se a descubierto un mensaje de error que contiene la cadena 11A47, correspondiente al número de compilación que viene usándose en Mac OS X

< rdar://problem/7386864> 11A47: SecurityAgent no longer visible via Accessibility

Este esquema de numeración de Apple utiliza un prefijo numérico que indica la versión principal, seguido de una letra que indica la versión de lanzamiento y un sufijo numérico que indica la versión en todo su desarrollo. Por ejemplo, la versión de envío inicial de Mac OS X Snow Leopard que se denominó Build 10A432 mientras que la actualización 10.6.1 llevaba una denominación de Build 10B504 y la actualización 10.6.2 publicada la semana pasada fue llamado Build 10C540. Por otro lado, Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) llevaba la numeración Build 9A571 cuando se lanzó por primera vez.

Por lo tanto, este esquema de numeración 11A47 con el el sufijo 47 indica que aún se encuentra en una fase muy temprana de desarrollo.

Apple todavía no a dicho como piensa llamar a esta nueva versión del sistema operativo. Podéis dejar un comentario con el nombre que creéis que usará.

VIA: Macrumors

Tout d’abord, petite présentation du personnage pour ceux qui ne la connaissent pas.

Madobe Nanami est la dernière-née des OS-tan, et elle a la particularité d’être la première officielle. Sa deuxième particularité est qu’elle est doublée par Mizuki Nana qui est une seiyuu et chanteuse que j’apprie beaucoup, qui a d’ailleurs elle-même doublée Fate Testarossa de la série Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha, pour ne citer qu’un de ses rôles les plus connus.

Madobe Nanami, qui représente donc Windows 7, est inclue dans l’édition japonaise Ultimate DSP de l’OS, et possède même son propre twitter ! Personnellement, je trouve que c’est la plus réussie des OS-tan, devant XP-tan !

Un aperçu de la voix de Madobe Nanami.

Cette charmante demoiselle a donc bien évidemment attiré mon oeil depuis l’annoncement de sa future existence, et je m’étais résigné à attendre une acquisition éventuelle de Windows 7 pour l’entendre commenter les actions de ma souris. Mais aujourd’hui, une grosse envie de nanamisation m’a pris, et c’est mon petit Mac qui en a subi les conséquences !
Du coup, c’est franchement trop chouette quand j’ai droit, par exemple, à un “ah, okaeri !” à chaque fois que je me connecte sur Adium/MSN, ou à un “ja jaaaaaan” quand je reçois un message. J’ai aussi droit à un petit commentaire quand je reçois un mail, quand une image, disque dur, ou clé-usb est monté(e) ou démonté(e), quand je vide la corbeille, etc…
Je spam mes contacts juste pour entendre mon OS-tan préférée m’indiquer que j’ai reçu un message !
Malheureusement, certains commentaires sont destinés à des actions qui ne possèdent pas de sons sous OS X, comme la batterie faible, les pop-up bloqués.

Passons maintenant à une partie qui va peut-être plus vous intéresser: comment nanamiser son Mac. Petit conseil avant de commencer, faites une copie des sons que vous allez écraser, ainsi qu’un back-up système ! Il ne devrait pas y avoir de problèmes normalement, mais on sait jamais !

1. Il faut tout d’abord récupérer un fichier qui contient tous les sons du personnage. Je vous laisser vous débrouiller pour ça

2. Il faut ensuite découper ce fichier son afin de tout séparer, à l’aide d’un logiciel comme SoundForge. C’est aussi faisable avec Audacity, qui est moins performant, mais qui a l’avantage d’être gratuit.

3. Optionel: Ajuster le volume sonore des sons si besoin (personnellement, je les ai tous normalisés parce qu’ils n’étaient pas assez forts à mon goût).

4. Enregistrer les sons (en wave de préférence). J’ai utilisé du 48 000 Hz, 16 bits, en mono.

5. Convertir les sons en AIFF avec iTunes ou QuickTime Pro. Les sons liés à l’interface utilisateurs d’OS X doivent être en AIFF. AIFF et AIF, c’est la même chose. Certains logiciels comme Adium gèrent le wave ou le mp3.

6. Pour remplacer le son d’alerte, aller dans le dossier System\Library\Sounds. Vous pourrez ensuite le choisir dans Préférences Système > Son > Effets Sonores.

7. Pour remplacer les sons de l’interface, aller dans le dossier System\Library\Components et affichez le contenu du paquet de CoreAudio.component. Aller ensuite dans Contents\Resources\SystemSounds et il y aura plusieurs dossiers contenant des sons.

8. Optionel: Il est possible de faire jouer un son quand on démonte une image. Il faut pour cela télécharger le logiciel MacBarfX. Après avoir monté le dmg, affichez le contenu de l’application et dans le dossier Resources, remplacer le fichier barf.aiff par la jolie voix de votre OS-tan préférée.

9. J’ai l’impression d’écrire une recette de cuisine O_o

Pour les sons qui demande une authentification pour être modifiés, le Mac doit être redémarré pour que les changements soient pris en compte.

Voilà, votre Mac est maintenant nanamisé à votre goût ! Tout va bien dans votre monde de geek
Quant à moi, il ne me reste plus qu’à faire la même chose sur mon pc équipé de Vista, en attendant Windows 7.

“Pirorin !”, me dit-elle.

Everyone secretly loves flight simulation. Soaring above (or below) the clouds is a great experience, however it is generated. The iPhone and iPod touch devices, despite their small screens, are great for this sort of activity. The computing and graphics power is quite great and the accelerometer makes it quite hard to crash.

Here are my top flight sims in no particular order… unfortunately none are free, although Lite or Trainer versions might exist or become available…

X-Plane is a simulator that is absolutely physically realistic to the extent that a mobile phone can be. It presents serious options to practise or try out “proper” manoeuvres, including using excellently developed navigation on beautiful aircraft. There are terrain options, other aircraft (occasionally) and challenging runways. It uses the accelerometer to great effect. Multiplayer or not.

F.A.S.T. is an aerial combat game that is, again, very realistic, although less so. There is a social club, a multiplayer mode and an option to fight against enemies in planes with blackout-causing g-force. The satisfaction of this one can be immense – after all, it is designed to be challenging, with a name like “Fleet Air Superiority Training”. If you like missions, this is one for you.

Flight Control is about moving aircraft of various sizes and speeds to their correct helipads and runways. It’s a 2D setup but don’t be fooled – co-ordinating movements of planes of different speeds and requirements is tricky. There are several terrain modes, and the game itself is easy to use. A good value item that interacts with others over Bluetooth, WiFi or even Facebook (although that’s not live). Enjoy dragging aircraft around with your finger, then…

I would like to particularly thank the developers of these apps for their great work. Keep it up, guys!

Writers Note: I work with more operating systems than I care to – six at the moment. Among them are the top three – Windows, Linux, and Mac. Nothing makes me contemplate operating systems more than Mac though. It’s not so much that it sucks through-and-through; it doesn’t. Mac OS X just has a few giant moles on its otherwise firm, benevolent tits.

These items here are why I hate the Mac OS. They are the things Mac shouldn’t expect anyone to have to deal with, but by-and-large do.

5. Getting to Desktop

Your desktop is a great staging area for new files that you aren’t quite sure where to put yet. Maybe they’ll go into your report, maybe they’ll go into the big folder of personal observations, or maybe they’ll get deleted. It makes sense that Apple would make a button that hides all the other windows and shows your desktop… what’s that? Right, that doesn’t exist. Well, technically it does, you can press F11 and all the various open windows will fly to the border of your screen, effectively displaying the desktop, but really… F11? That’s not a button I want my pinky searching for late at night with no lights on. This is like building a car with the windshield wiper control on the passenger side, next to the cigarette adapter, and marked only with the unlit glyph “F11″. Make the damn button, Mac. Make it standard, no matter what the Expose guys say.

4. Updates
Every week you will get security updates from Apple, or yet another version of iTunes, or whatever else popping up in the Dock. And by popping up I mean bouncing around like an ADD kid, typically while you are trying to meet a deadline or impress a lady friend or several lady friends. The security updates are fine (hey, while we are talking about it, Apple has plenty of security holes), but a dancing icon for every new iTunes update? Get lost. And worst of all, practically every update makes you reboot. I kid you not, get ready to close down everything and reboot for the rest of your iLife. Jesus. And Windows does it so well, Microsoft rolls out fixes all the time that practically never require you to so much as lift a finger.

3. Lack of Software
This one is so obvious I hesitate putting it on the list, but it is also so real, painful, and at the heart of the problem it would be criminal to not mention: Apple is a barren wasteland of software. Basically, if the software retails for $200+ on Windows, chances are the company decided to port it for Macintosh as well. But all those millions of little, low-cost to free applications that make a computer fun/useful to own are missing. Programs that help me tune my piano, design circuits, watch unusual video formats, etc are mysteriously absent on the Great Big Internet. If I was born into Apple I wouldn’t even think such things could exist. This is one of the great things about computers – they end up letting you try more things than you ever imagined, literally. Apple, on the other hand, only lets you do things you probably already knew about. And since Apple doesn’t have the numbers to make a cheap piece of software profitable, you will be charged an arm and a leg for what is already available. Seriously, you can buy two PC’s and a better software library (one for your lady friend) for the price of a few decent Apple applications.

2. iTunes
Never have so few features done so much to piss me off as iTunes. Basically iTunes attempts to accomplish 3 tasks – organize, play, and sync media. As far as organization goes, it does an OK job until you need to do something other than amass every piece of sound and video on your computer. Lets say you make a presentation that includes clips of people interacting with clients (lame), or the different sounds a hotdog can make (awesome). If you accidentally let iTunes play these files (task #2) then you have now inadvertently added them into your iTunes library. Now when you let iTunes play on random, possibly while entertaining said lady friends, your catalog of amazing music will be interspersed with a hotdog rhythmically hitting a crystal vase. Not good, Apple, not good at all.

The problem multiplies when you decide to move the hotdog project over to a new folder that will hold all your avant garde meat projects. Now when you play them iTunes will create a new entry for hotdog-against-chilled-glass.mp3 without removing the old one. After a few months, your catalog is clouded with nonexistent files reminding you of sad, horribly failed projects.

I could do an entire article on why iTunes is wrong, but I’ll stop here and say only this: just because you ask your computer to play a clip doesn’t mean you want to hear about it the rest of your life. Something was already created to organize media, something that has been studied and improved upon for decades, and that is called your file browser. Microsoft understands that, and turns the table on Apple ease-to-use. Work on that, and don’t treat media files like they were somehow iTunes’ property.

1. The Commercials
You know what? I loved the first dozen Apple vs PC ads. It was awesome to see Windows getting railed, I wanted Apple to succeed. Windows had/has so many flaws, but they are covering ground fast. I don’t see that in Apple. I see Apple making badass glass screens and tight low level interfaces that make it easier to work with limited, sometimes outdated or crappy software. At least try a new approach and fix some of the problems. Right now, my bets are on Windows 7. Now, if Windows wasn’t such a bitch…

0. BONUS ROUND: Keeping Context
If you own a Mac, I want you to open a Finder window, then come back to this webpage. OK, now flip to another desktop and then flip back. Guess what? You probably can’t see this text. That’s because Apple puts your Finder window above everything else, regardless how you arranged it. That’s something I would expect from an amateur, home grown operating system. Not from the user interface gurus paid $100k+ with Apple money. Jesus Christ. While we are talking about context, let’s open GarageBand. Congratulations, after you’ve created your project try clicking on something that isn’t a piano or a knob. Nothing happening? That’s the way it was designed. While everyone else has adopted contextual menus, a great way of learning the things you can perform on an object, Mac has gone 1990 and left that kind of capability conspicuously absent. What’s that, Apple? We can’t handle the truth? Try changing a file icon, try doing anything beyond the three preset operations Apple intended and you will hurt.

To remove an email address from the auto-complete list in Mac OS X Mail:

• Start typing the recipient’s address or name in a new message.
• Select the desired address from the auto-complete list as if you’d compose an email to them.
• Click the small down arrow in the recipient.
• Select Remove from Previous Recipients List from the menu.

You can also search for the unwanted address directly in the previous recipients list:

• Select Window | Previous Recipients from the menu in Mac OS X Mail.
• Highlight the address you want to remove.
  • You can highlight multiple addresses by holding down the Command key.
• Click Remove from List.

You can also use the Previous Recipients window to rid the list of old, unused addresses.

Wie Macwelt.de gestern berichtete, gibt es erste Hinweise auf das zukünftige Mac-Betriebssystem Mac OS 10.7.

In der Raubkatzen-Reihe des beliebten Betriebssystemes gab es bisher “Cheetah” (10.0), ”Puma” (10.1), “Jaguar” (10.2), Panther® (10.3), Tiger® (10.4), Leopard® (10.5) und den aktuellen “Snow Leopard”® (10.6).

Wie wird wohl das OS X 10.7 heißen? Lion? Wenn die Markenrechte des bekannten Schokoriegel dadurch nicht verletzt werden, wäre dies eine durchaus denkbare Option. Auch “Sibirian Tiger” klingt nach Apple-Like. Lassen wir uns überraschen.

Die mit ® gekennzeichneten Namen sind eingetragene Marken von Apple. Quelle: Wikipedia.de

These are my top 5 programs that will bring out the inner geek in you and your Apple Mac.

• Geekbench
Geekbench is a benchmarking tool, as the name suggests. It’s free and can be downloaded onto most current Macs. Close all applications and it’ll measure the power. Then compete with a friend!

• Google Earth
OK – this might seem really, really obvious, but it isn’t. You see, on its own, Earth is a great tool for everyone, but under the Tools menu there is a realistic flight simulator game. It requires great skill and precision!

• Grapher
A graph drawing program simply built in to OS X. It’s under Utilities. Most people have never heard of it (but you had).

• Lockdown
A freebie (you can see where I’m going here) that locks down a Mac and whenever someone does anything to it, it sounds an alarm which is immutable, flashes the screen, emails a photo of the intruder and requires the correct paired Apple Remote to unlock. Applies to USB, keyboard, mouse, laptop power leads, FireWire, WiFi, whatever… And customisable too.

• Deeper
Use this utility to change many, many hidden settings on a Mac. You might want to modify the login screen’s information, change window minimisation behaviour, or a whole host of other things.

Enjoy! All are free – to the best of my knowledge – and all can be found on Sourceforge or via Google, if your Mac doesn’t have them already…

A couple of years ago Camino was the only browser I used. I still think it is better than firefox, although it doesn’t have all the bells and whistles of that browser. But I am not really a bells and whistles kind of guy.

Camino 2.0: “

Tons of new features and improvements. I’m going to give it a shot as my daily browser.

 ★ 

“

(Via Daring Fireball.)

http://iphoneonrails.com/
– ObjectiveResource is a framework for the iPhone that makes interacting with Ruby on Rails applications dead simple.

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A new Trojan horse for Mac OS X?

As Numaan points out on the SophosLabs blog, a ‘new’ Trojan horse for the Apple Mac OS X operating system has been discussed in the security community for the last few days.

For instance,

Trend Micro: New Malware Threatens Mac Users
Intego: Intego Issues Security Memo about New Variant of RSPlug Trojan Horse
SecuriTeam: OS X malware family has a new member: OSX.Lamzev.A
The Trojan horse is closely related to the OSX/RSPlug Trojan horse for Mac OS X that we have seen being distributed in the wild since November 2″

(Via .)

This tutorial should explain briefly how to include and use the Intel Threading Building Blocks (TBB) in a C++ Xcode Project in OSX. Intel has put together an excellent tutorial that explains the basics, but it assumes that you have the libraries already included in your project.

1) Download the source code from a stable TBB release (e.g. tbb22_20090809oss_src.tgz).

2) Unpack it and run “make”.

3) Create a new project in Xcode, e.g. Command Line Tool from type C++ stdc++. The project in this example is called “tbbWorkbench”.

4) Open Finder and copy the tbb folder into your project’s folder:

5) Go back into Xcode and link the libraries “libtbb.dylib” and “libtbbmalloc.dylib” from the tbb22_20090809oss/build/macos_intel64_gcc_cc4.2.1_os10.6.2_release/ folder that is inside your project folder to your target.

6) Add the “Header Search Path” (tbb22_20090809oss/include) and make sure that you always search user paths.

7) Now, add a “New Copy Files Build Phase” where you copy the both TBB .dylib files to your “Products Directory”. This is needed as otherwise the libraries won’t be found during runtime and you’ll face a “Error from Debugger: Cannot access memory at address 0×0″.

8 ) As a final step, you can now e.g. insert the first sample code from the Intel Tutorial and you’re ready to go !

- Christian

Snow Leopard has barely gotten its paws wet, and now news comes that Apple (s aapl) is already working on its replacement. It’s not really surprising, since Apple is basically always either working on the next iteration of its products or releasing them, but still, it does whet the appetite for the next version of OS X.

The suggestion of the new operating system appeared in an entry posted early this morning in a change database for “launchd,” an open source framework that controls the booting of OS X and administers running processes. The new entry includes an error message with the string “11A47″ in it, which is a reference to what version of Mac OS X is being used.

Previous versions of OS X have all followed the same numbering scheme. The number at the start of the string references which version of OS X is being used, with the letter indicated the minor release number and finally another number at the end indicating the development progress of said minor release. So, for example, Snow Leopard at release was represented by the string 10A432, and Leopard was 9A571. 11A47, then, would seem to indicate that an early build of 10.7 was being used.

According to MacRumors, the “47″ part of that number would suggest that Apple has already been working on the new version of OS X for at least a couple of months now. It’s still very early days, though, and probably even a long way off from a release to the developer community. We saw a two-year span between 10.4 and 10.5, but only a one year gap between the release of 10.5 and 10.6, because 10.6 represented mainly performance upgrades and refinements. Chances are, 10.7 is at least another year and a half off.

No news yet on what to expect in 10.7, although there is reason to believe that the upcoming iteration of OS X will bring more major changes than the last update. Traditionally, Apple introduces far more GUI and basic functionality changes in major point releases, but Snow Leopard was a special exception to that rule, a fact reflected in the price. It’s possible that Apple will release OS 11 at some point, but as of right now, it seems likely that it will continue with the current numbering scheme.

Anything in particular you’d like to see in 10.7? Maybe something you were disappointed wasn’t there in OS X 10.6? Personally, I still think Finder could use some further fine-tuning, but otherwise I’m at a loss at the moment.

Bueno aquí viene el primero de una serie de tutoriales que iremos poniendo sobre todo lo que rodea a la gran manzana.Hoy el primero de todos es como hacer el cambio a Snow Leopard usando Time Machine e instalando desde cero.

Lo Primero de todo, si no lo tenéis echo ya, es realizar una copia de seguridad con Time Machine. Para eso os vais a Preferencias del Sistema.

Cuando entréis en la instalación, seleccionáis el idioma y le vais dando siguiente hasta que os aparezca en qué unidad queréis instalar Snow LeopardA continuación, en la barra de arriba, os vais a Utilidades / Utilidad de Discos y os aparecerá la ventana con todas las unidades de disco (tanto internas como externas) que tenemos conectadas.

Aquí es donde tenéis que asignarle un nombre a vuestra unidad de Disco (os recomiendo Macintosh HD) y elegis formato Mac OS Plus (con registro)

Pulsamos borrar (esto nos formateará nuestro disco interno en el formato que le hayamos dicho).

Una vez que termine el proceso de borrado, que durará unos pocos segundos, cerráis la Utilidad de Discos, esperáis que se reinicie el ordenador, y en la instalación le dais a Siguiente. Entonces empezará a comprobar el DVD por si tiene algún error, esta opción la podéis omitir.

Cuando termine el proceso de instalación os pedirá vuestros datos y que registréis el producto.

Y ya para terminar os saldrá el Asistente de Migración.

Aquí es donde tenéis que seleccionar la opción: De una copia de seguridad de Time Machine.

Una vez le deis a continuar, seleccionáis el volumen donde tengáis la copia de Time Machine (hemos de tener el disco de la copia conectado, claro está), y esperáis a que transfiera la información. Cuando termine ya lo tendréis todo como en Leopard pero en Snow Leopard!

Espero que os sirva de ayuda, cualquier duda o problema dejadlo en comentarios.

Nos vemos!