Hace unos días vimos cómo hacer que Linux se parezca a Mac OS X con Mac4Lin. Sin embargo, en ese artículo faltaba incorporar el dock (o lanzador de aplicaciones) que encontramos, en la parte inferior del escritorio, en todas las versiones del sistema operativo de la manzana. Ya hemos visto en el blog cómo Instalar y configurar Docky paso a paso, un dock que podría cubrir nuestras necesidades. Sin embargo, hoy aprenderemos a instalar Avant Window Navigator (abreviado como AWN), un dock que destaca principalmente por sus efectos, algunos de los cuales imitan la apariencia de OS X y para el que Mac4Lin incorpora un estupendo tema.

Por supuesto, antes de instalar AWN, deberás tener instalado Mac4Lin, tal y como explicábamos en el artículo mencionado mas arriba. Después, sólo tienes que seguir estas sencillas instrucciones:   

1. Afortunadamente, AWN ya se encuentra incluido en los repositorios, por lo que, para instalarlo, sólo tienes que abrir Synaptic (Sistema > Administración > Gestor de paquetes Synaptic) y buscar el paquete avant-window-navigator (como te digo siempre, basta con hacer clic sobre el primer elemento de la columna Paquete y comenzar a escribir la palabra avant-window-navigator, o bien, puedes utilizar el cuadro Búsqueda rápida). Una vez localizado, sólo tienes que hacer clic sobre él, con el botón derecho del ratón y, en el menú de contexto que aparece, elegir Marcar para instalar.
   
   

   Marcar para instalar

2. Verás que aparece una ventana con varios complementos que hay que añadir a la instalación. No te preocupes. El único inconveniente es que el proceso de descarga e instalación de paquetes tardará algo más de tiempo. Debes hacer clic en Marcar para continuar. Cuando vuelvas a la ventana principal de Synaptic sólo tienes que hacer clic en el botón Aplicar y seguir las instrucciones del asistente de instalación.
   
   

   Clic sobre Marcar

3. Una vez terminada la instalación, puedes encontrar el programa en Aplicaciones > Accesorios > Avant Window Navigator.
   
   

   Ejecutar AWN

4. Cuando ejecutes el programa, verás que aparece el nuevo dock en la parte inferior de la ventana. Por el momento, sólo tendrá un icono, que representa al administrador de AWN, aunque, por cada ventana que abras se añadirá un nuevo icono que la representa. También puedes añadir nuevos iconos para ejecutar fácilmente tus aplicaciones preferidas. Para conseguirlo, sólo tienes que buscarlas en el menú Aplicaciones y arrastrar su icono hasta el dock. Saldrá un signo + junto al icono y, en ese momento podrás soltarlo.
   Cuidado, si sueltas el icono sobre otro icono se abrirá el programa en lugar de añadir el lanzador.
   Para ajustar el comportamiento de AWN, sólo tendrás que hacer clic sobre el administrador (El icono que aparece inicialmente en el dock) o elegir la opción Sistema > Preferencias > Awn Manager.
   

   Ejecutar Awn Manager

5. Si quieres que AWN se ejecute automáticamente cada vez que inicies tu sistema, tendrás que activar el campo Automatically start AWN on login, dentro de la solapa General.
   

    

   

   Arrancar en el inicio

6. Puedes aprovechar para seleccionar el apartado de Applets y añadir cualquiera de los componentes que tienes a tu disposición. Por ejemplo, yo he elegido un reloj (Cairo Clock). Verás que los componentes elegidos se añaden a tu barra dock en cuanto pulses el botón Activar.
   
   

   Elegir Applets

7. Por último, puedes elegir un nuevo aspecto para tu barra, que se acerque más al de OS X. Para conseguirlo, sólo tienes que activar el apartado Themes y hacer clic sobre el botón Añadir.
   
   

   Añadir tema

8. En la ventana que aparece, desplázate hasta el lugar donde descomprimiste Mac4Lin (en mi caso, dispongo de una carpeta denominada Mac4Lin_v1.0 en la Carpeta personal de mi usuario). Dentro encontrarás una carpeta denominada AWM, y en su interior, un tema para AWN denominado Mac4Lin_AWN_v1.0.tgz (o algo muy parecido, según la versión). Selecciónalo y haz clic sobre el botón Abrir.
   
   

   Cargar el tema

9. De vuelta en la ventana Awn Manager, verás que ya dispones del nuevo tema. Haz clic sobre él y a continuación sobre el botón Aplicar. Después de esto, ya puedes cerrar la ventana.
   
   

   Aplicamos el nuevo tema

10. Si observas el punto 4, el dock aparece solapado con el panel inferior. Como, usando el dock, el panel resulta innecesario, podemos eliminarlo haciendo clic con el botón derecho del ratón sobre cualquier espacio libre del propio panel y, en el menú de contexto que aparece, eligiendo la opción Borrar este panel.
    
    

    Quitamos el panel inferior

11. Después de esto, ya podrás disfrutar de tu nuevo dock, al más puro estilo de Mac OS X …
    
    

    Efecto final

Y con esto terminamos el artículo de hoy. Espero que te haya resultado interesante.

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• Mac4Lin: haz que Linux parezca Mac OS X
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There are many great torrent clients for the Mac I’ve narrowed it down to the two I like the most.
Transmission

Transmission is my personal favorite because its very light weight and has a simple intuitive interface.

uTorrent

uTorrent is another great application with that native Mac os look and feel that all mac users hopefully desire.

The reason i choose Transmission over uTorrent is because in Transmission you have complete control over how the Torrents are added, removed, bandwidth limits etc. uTorrent definitely has these controls but i found them lacking.

Transmission’s Preferences

uTorrent’s Preferences

Found this pretty cool video linked on reddit.com of a guy who’s made a lovely OS X booting pc system in an old school developers Xbox case.
Really nice work on both the PC and the filming.

There are 8 hard drives in my pc. One failed this morning and lawfully minded Murphy dictated it would be my Snow Leopard drive.

Fear not, I have Time Machine all up to date… Reinstalling the OS and then shutting down, maybe one step too far already. Sigh. Where are the instructions?! Stop the screaming!

The instructions that come with the FIVe3D font making utility are pretty clear overall but on OS X 10.4 it can be confusing to find which WindowSWF folder to use. Is it /Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/en/Configuration/WindowSWF/ ? Or is it /Applications/Adobe Flash CS4/Common/First Run/WindowSWF/ ?

Actually, the place to put “Make a new typography file.swf” is here: /Users/youruserhandle/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Flash CS4/en/Configuration/WindowSWF/.

I used a font called Roadkill. When the font was created, the Flash CS4 Output window said: ‘”Roadkill.as” is in the current folder.’

Since my hard drive is partitioned, it wasn’t immediately clear what was meant by “current folder” in this case. The font.fla file I used to create Roadkill.as via the font-making utility was on the 2nd partition, i.e. not on the main partition.

It turns out “current folder” meant the top most directory on the main partition on my OS X machine, right next to Users, Developer, Library, Applications, System.

After seeing the following post, many possibilities came to mind.

Notes: Pretty print XML

But working with XMPP and SAPO Broker, I’m always copy&pasting XML from one place to the other and it would be nice to format the XML snippet sitting in the clipboard.

This pipe does the trick quite nicely:

pbpaste | xmllint –format – | pbcopy

I wrapped this into a script, called x-xml-format-clipboard and now its just one command away from gratification.

In the end I came up with a couple that I use a lot after searching the web. The possibilities are endless but these are neat for me. In Eclipse I can’t easily transform text unless I install AnyEdit which I have on other systems. But I haven’t yet on this one. So the transforms are simple:

upper to lower:

#!/bin/bash

pbpaste | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]' | pbcopy

lower to upper:

#!/bin/bash<br /><br />pbpaste | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | pbcopy<br />

remove blank lines:

#!/bin/bash<br /><br />pbpaste | grep -v '^

These are made into executable scripts on my path which I can then pull up with Quicksilver. So now to remove blank lines, I select the text in any editor, trigger Quicksilver, highlight the command, press enter, and paste it back. Nice. Of course this means that you can do just about anything with this kind of thing as discussed here. | pbcopy
These are made into executable scripts on my path which I can then pull up with Quicksilver. So now to remove blank lines, I select the text in any editor, trigger Quicksilver, highlight the command, press enter, and paste it back. Nice. Of course this means that you can do just about anything with this kind of thing as discussed here.

Every now and then I like to do a bunch of quick calcs with references back to previous calcs. I can use iPython which is really powerful tool since it’s an advanced interactive frontend to python. But this is just a neat little tip.

[awk] Command line calculator using awk « *NIX tricks

This is an update on our bash command line calculator posted a few days ago — except for the fact that this time we’ll use awk to do the calculation instead of bc. As I mentioned in that post, you may use python or ruby (irb) to do the same thing, but these tricks may be useful if you don’t ruby or python installed (bc and awk, in general, come by default in any Unix or GNU/Linux distro).

First, create (or rewrite if you used our last trick) function “?” as follows and put it in your ~/.bashrc file:
? () { awk “BEGIN{ print $* }” ;}

and make sure to reload your ~/.bashrc file (do the similar thing if you’re using any other shell). [NOTE: ZSH does not like ``?'' as a function, so you might consider replacing it with something reasonable, e.g., ``compute'']

Now, if you want to calculate an expression, do it, for example, as
$ ? “2*3+4.0*(9.9+8.1)”

and don’t forget the quotes.

SDL MAME for Mac OSX saw an update yesterday. I am playing catch up so, let’s see what changes were made. As always, you can find this and any other download in the Box File widget on the right. Cheers!

1) Up to date with baseline 0.135u1 (RB)

2) Compile fix for PowerPC Linux (and BSD?) targets (sashz)

3) IA64=1 compile option changed to NOASM=1. This is the first step towards being able to build SDLMAME for ARM and other architectures we don’t explicitly support. (RB)

I almost forgot, don’t forget to download the proper version. There are Universal (non-intel) and Intel optimized (x86) versions. Make sure you download the one that will work best for you! I think this is the first time there is an Intel optimized version over here in Mac land. I used to look at that “Intel Optimized” with a gleam of envy in my eyes.

You can also check out the SDL homepage for more information and downloads. Cheers!

Ecco la versione per Mac OS X compilata e pronta all’uso

DOWNLOAD

Lista di tutte le build per restare aggiornati. CLICK ME

Simple and nice to use UML Tool free of charge, see here.

Obi und ich wollen etwas besonderes in Angriff nehmen: Wir entwickeln unsere erste Anwendung speziell für den Mac.

XCode ist wahrlich keine einfache Programmiersprache, aber wir werden uns einarbeiten (müssen) und bald entsteht ein neues Projekt: Der YouTube-Manager.

Ich hatte schon vor langer Zeit eine Idee. Wie wäre es, wenn man mit einer Anwendung YouTube organisieren und verwalten kann und seine wichtigsten Videos immer mit dabei hat, auch wenn man mal nicht online ist? Dies und viel mehr soll das Programm können. Es soll Videos in einer ganz neuen Art präsentieren, anzeigen und verwalten können. Selbstverständlich mit Login und allem was dazugehört.

Das Programm wird nicht gerade eine leichte Anwendung die man so eben in 2 Stunden programmiert. Unser erstes Ziel wird es sein, alle Funktionen des regulären YouTubes zu implementieren. Doch wir gehen einen Schritt weiter. Wir werden die Geschwindigkeit erhöhen und die kleinen Mankos ausarbeiten, die die Onlineversion von YouTube besitzt. Außerdem werden wir umfangreiche Organisations- und Archivierungsfunktionen implementieren, die so zuvor noch nicht bekannt waren. Features, die wir planen, sind (unter anderem):

• Revolutionäre, geschwindigkeitsbringende Benutzeroberfläche mit Drag&Drop Features und exzellentem Design
• Archivierungsfunktion, um alle seine Favoriten, Abbonements, einzelne Videos oder sogar alle angeschauten Videos immer dabei zu haben
• Bessere Tagging- und Suchfunktion
• Mehrere Favoritenlisten und verbesserte Playlistfunktionen
• Umfangreiche Verwaltung von Abonnements
• Neuartige Kommentarfunktion mit History und vielem mehr
• Verbesserte Administration des eigenen Kanals
• und vieles mehr…

Das alles hört sich ziemlich theoretisch an, und das ist es auch. Es wird allerdings das nächste Projekt werden. Wir werden zusammen daran arbeiten. Das Programm wird mit XCode programmiert und ist nur auf OSX lauffähig. Eine Windows- und Linuxversion wird es nicht geben! Ich habe mich dazu entschieden, regelmäßig den genauen Projektverlauf auf meinem Blog zu veröffentlichen. Sobald das Programm lauffähig ist, wird es höchstwahrscheinlich Weekly Builds geben.

Und jetzt das Wichtige: Das Programm wird komplett Freeware und OpenSource (Lizenz ist noch nicht entschieden)!

Und zum Schluss noch eine wichtige Aufforderung an meine Leser. Wie ihr sicherlich gemerkt habt, sprach ich vom “Programm”, denn das Projekt hat bislang noch keinen Namen. Es wäre nett, wenn ihr ein paar Namensvorschläge als Kommentar hinterlasst. Vielen Dank und schönen Sonntag noch!

Nothing really needing explaining here, but wanted an example for doing a recrsive grep handy as I can never remember it.

grep -RH –include “*.java” TEXT_I_AM_LOOKING_FOR *

Early Chromium Testers historically had to manually trawl through the Build Index, Pick the latest version and then install.

Thats all come to an end now with the release of a great little app which will pull the latest build from Chromiums ftp and install it for you

Get the App Here!

Simple as that.

I blackra1ned it.

It got jailbroken in 20 seconds.

And now, I don’t feel like selling it yet.

After I complete the MISSION (which is get a Macbook (Pro), unibody or not, for below $350. Impossible right? Wanna bet?)

After I get a Mac sub-$350, a good one, recent by at least 3-2 years,

I might sell the iPhone, and get a good guitar or a guitar and an iPhone, or 2 guitars and an iPhone.

Time will Tell.

I found out that i can’t resize my iTunes windows after i migrated from mac mini to macbook. The mac mini is hooked up with a 22 inch LCD, so, the screen size is bigger than the macbook. If you hit on the green buttons, you’ll get iTunes turn into mini player. What about my itunes windows size, as my macbook screen is 13 inch and i just can’t drag it to resize.

Here’s the solution.

Hold down the OPTION key and click on the green buttons, it will resize iTunes properly.

This is handy.

That was CRAZY.

5 min ago, I thought “maybe I should jailbreak my iPhone since I’m thinking of selling it”

so, I firefox pulled up blackra1n (blackrain) since I’d heard of it before, and quickly went

to blackra1n.com

I clicked the apple

downloaded,

I opened blackra1n,

clicked “make it rain” (making sure the iPhone was plugged in)

and 60 seconds later,

in my hand is a fully jailbroken device.

I opened the blackra1n app, and tapped to install Cydia and Rock.

Over the period of writing this, I had opened blackra1n on the iPhone and chosen Cydia and ROCK

these completed installing,

and the super-slow Cydia, slowest of the slow, can’t say enough things slowly about how terribly slow Cydia is and how slow it continues to be.

And how fast the others are…

SUCCESSFUL JAILBREAK

Google released the source code for its latest project, the Chrome OS as we all know, with a demonstration of the current version of the Chrome OS (can be seen here). If you want to try out the OS for yourself you can do so by downloading it from here, extracting and mounting it onto your VMware.

Google Chrome OS turns out to be an OS dedicated to running one application and one application only, that is the Google Chrome browser. All other tasks are done using web apps such as Google docs, Office Web apps and so on. Thats right, there seems to be no desktop applications installed, or installable to play your music, edit your photos, or anything else for that matter, offline. But I’m assuming there will be some sort of offline support (like in gmail) for docs and other web apps and to play your music from your music library in your hard-disk. But wait! according to what Ive read, there is no offline file storage, everything is synced and stored in the cloud. In the demonstration you can see how they typed something in their version of notepad and it automatically cached onto google docs. Now im not against storing information online, i would love to be able to access all my files on anycomputer after logging in with my profile, like how it already is on gmail. I think it would complete the user experience but i think Google is taking it a bit too far.

As good as cloud computing would be, desktop apps and offline storage is a must. The netbooks that Google is planning to release next year with their final Chrome OS, has no hard disk, instead they will be using SSDs. This, my fellow readers as you would know, is a good thing because speeds would increase. Boot times apparently are going to be under 3 seconds because they have eliminated all splash screens, boot loaders and other processes that normally would take place on booting Windows,OSX, Ubuntu, or any other operating system. This is quite impressive, but what is Chrome OS offering that the above OSs don’t/cant,apart from the fast boot and instant logon to the cloud? All the mentioned operating systems are capable of running a wide range of browsers including but not limited to Google Chrome, webapps and desktop applications.I dont see the point of spending a couple of hundred in buying a brand new handicapped netbook with Chrome OS, when I can easily do everything Chrome OS has to offer plus more on any other OS

So it turns out that Chrome OS is not as interesting as thought to be. Faliure? I think not but Chrome OS does not seem to offer much at the moment, but with the developer code being out and the release date months away, Google has time to fix!