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		<title>Growl die Liontatze</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 11:59:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vor einiger Zeit hatte ich schon einmal über die Anwendung Growl gebloggt. Damals war sie noch Freeware und somit kostenlos erhältlich. Heute kostet Sie im AppStore 1,59 Euro. Liest man dort die Beschwerden der Bewertungen, heisst die eindeutige Meinung, die Finger &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/growl-die-liontatze">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a title="Growl - Älterer Markus Zeller Blog" href="http://www.markuszeller.com/growl" target="_blank">Vor einiger Zeit</a> hatte ich schon einmal über die Anwendung <a title="Growl Webseite" href="http://growl.info/" target="_blank">Growl</a> gebloggt. Damals war sie noch Freeware und somit kostenlos erhältlich. Heute kostet Sie im <a title="Growl im AppStore" href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4" target="_blank">AppStore</a> 1,59 Euro. Liest man dort die Beschwerden der Bewertungen, heisst die eindeutige Meinung, die Finger vom Kauf zu lassen.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Einstellungen.png"><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1632" title="Einstellungen" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Einstellungen.png" alt="" width="285" height="284" /></a>Etwas unglücklich ist auch die Beschreibung, das Growl ursprünglich dazu entwickelt wurde, um den Inhalt einer neu erhaltenen Mail anzuzeigen, ohne das aktuelle Programm verlassen zu müssen. Wenn man das liest, geht man in der Regel davon aus, dass es auch mit Apple&#8217;s Mail klappt. Aber das funktioniert nur <a title="Growl Mail Download" href="http://code.google.com/p/growlmail/downloads/list" target="_blank">GrowlMail</a>, das mittlerweile nicht mehr mitgeliefert wird und separat installiert werden muss. Die GrowlMail Version 1.3.2 unterstützt Mail auf Lion.</p>
<p>Nach dem letzten Growl-Update auf 1.3.1 und der Sichtung des Changelogs sind alle diese gravierenden Mängel, die auch mich bisher vom Kauf abgehalten haben, beseitigt worden.</p>
<p>Nun habe ich die kostenpflichtige Software seit einigen Stunden im Einsatz und kann nur sagen, dass es viel besser ist und der Kauf sich definitiv lohnt!</p>
<p>Die Einstellungsmöglichkeiten sind viel grosszügiger und vor allem übersichtlicher, als in der Vorgängerversion.</p>
<p>Neu dazugekommen ist das Sammeln von Benachrichtigungen während der Abwesenheit vom Computer. Das ist wirklich vorbildlich gelöst, denn sie werden nun in einem schicken scrollbaren Fenster gesammelt.</p>
<p><strong>Fazit:</strong></p>
<p><strong></strong>Die neue Version zum Preis einer Tasse Kaffee ist lohnenswert!</p>
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		<title>WebM / VP8 vs. H.264</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 09:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In letzter Zeit dreht sich bei mir relativ viel um Video und bisher habe ich immer den H.264 Codec verwendet, da er unglaublich gute Kompression bei hervorragender Qualität bietet. Dieser Codec wird von sämtlichen Geräten sogar hardwareseitig unterstützt und hat &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/webm-vp8-vs-h-264">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>In letzter Zeit dreht sich bei mir relativ viel um Video und bisher habe ich immer den H.264 Codec verwendet, da er unglaublich gute Kompression bei hervorragender Qualität bietet. Dieser Codec wird von sämtlichen Geräten sogar hardwareseitig unterstützt und hat somit eine große Verbreitung und Unterstützung.</p>
<h3>Lizenzen bringen Probleme</h3>
<p>Allerdings soll es bei diesem Codec in Zukunft einige <a href="http://www.golem.de/1007/76448.html" target="_blank">lizenzrechtliche Probleme</a> geben und die Suche nach Alternativen ist die einzig vernünftige Lösung.</p>
<h3>Die Zukunft</h3>
<p>Bei modernen Browsern der neuen Generation wie Google Chrome, Firefox 4, IE9, etc. ist ein Audio- und Videoplayer bereits integriert, um das Video-Tag einzubinden. Das Format <a href="http://www.webmproject.org/" target="_blank">WebM</a> mit dem VP8 Codec ist bereits gut unterstützt.</p>
<p>Google ist sogar einen Schritt weitergegangen und hat H.264 direkt <a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/53490-google-cuts-chrome-h264-support" target="_blank">rausgeworfen</a> und setzt nur noch auf VP8. Bei Youtube wird ebenfalls <a href="http://www.youtube.com/html5" target="_blank">alles</a> dahin codiert und abgelegt. Somit ist der Trend scheinbar festgelegt.</p>
<h3>Press play on tape</h3>
<p>Das Abspielen innerhalb der oben genannten Browser funktioniert bereits. Einfach die Videodatei mit dem Browser entweder über das Menu öffnen oder per Drag und Drop reinwerfen. Auch andere Wiedergabeprogramme wie VLC zeigen die Inhalte einwandfrei.</p>
<h3>Encodieren</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1568" title="Compression Settings" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Compression-Settings.png" alt="" width="172" height="134" />Leider gibt es auf dem Mac mit OS X 10.6.6 noch keine native Unterstützung, doch es gibt eine sehr bequeme Methode für Quicktime 7 Pro. Einfach das Paket <a title="WebM Package" href="http://code.google.com/p/webm/downloads/detail?name=WebM%20Component%20Installer.pkg&amp;can=2&amp;q=" target="_blank">WebM Component Installer.pkg</a> installieren und schon kann man im WebM-Format exportieren.</p>
<p>Ein kurzer Test mit dem VP8 Codec hat sogar noch kleinere Dateien als mit H.264 Codec erzeugt &#8211; allerdings muss ich das erst noch genauer unter die Lupe nehmen.</p>
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		<title>Bilder, Pixel, Kompression</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Es gibt jede Menge Dateiformate in denen man seine Bilder und Videos speichern kann. Doch diese digitalen Daten nehmen reichlich Platz auf der Festplatte ein. Je mehr desto besser? Der Hype um immer hochauflösendere Fotos und Videos nimmt auch heutzutage &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/bilder-pixel-kompression">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Es gibt jede Menge Dateiformate in denen man seine Bilder und Videos speichern kann. Doch diese digitalen Daten nehmen reichlich Platz auf der Festplatte ein.</p>
<h4>Je mehr desto besser?</h4>
<p>Der Hype um immer hochauflösendere Fotos und Videos nimmt auch heutzutage noch nicht ab. Kameras verkaufen sich nur, wenn sie möglichst viele Megapixel aufwarten. Genauso verhält es sich mit den Videoaufahmegeräten. HD und Full-HD sind dabei die Zauberwörter.</p>
<p>Je mehr desto besser &#8211; das ist aber nur zum Teil richtig, denn eine hohe Auflösung hilft auch nicht weiter, wenn die dahintersteckende Optik minderwertig ist.</p>
<h4>Wohin mit den Daten?</h4>
<p>Schon lange lohnt es sich gar nicht mehr seine Dateien auf CDs oder DVDs zu brennen, denn da passt einfach viel zu wenig drauf. Durchschnittliche Digitalbilder sind ca. 1,5 MB groß. Auf eine CD passen etwa 700 MB, also ist Platz für knapp 450 Bilder. Eine Standard-DVD fasst ca. 7 mal so viel wie eine CD.</p>
<p>Eigentlich eine ganz tolle Sache, denn da passt der ganze Urlaub schön sortiert auf eine Scheibe.</p>
<h4>Warum nicht brennen?</h4>
<p>Das Problem mit diesen brennbaren Datenträgern ist allerdings, dass die Datenbeständigkeit unterirdisch ist. Die Hersteller versprechen Haltbarkeiten von vielen Jahren.</p>
<p>Meine Erfahrung &#8211; und ja, auch mit Markenrohlingen &#8211; zeigen das genaue Gegenteil. Nach etwa 1-5 Jahren war von meinen gesicherten Bits und Bytes nicht mehr viel übrig. Von anderen habe ich ähnliche Schaudergeschichten gehört.</p>
<h4>Wohin dann?</h4>
<p>Externe Festplatten sind bestens geeignet, um große Datenmengen auch dauerhaft zu sichern. Sie brauchen wenig Stauraum, lassen sich bequem am Computer via USB oder Firewire anstöpseln, sind als Datenträger verfügbar und das Kopieren geht rasend schnell.</p>
<p>Außerdem kann man auf Festplatten nicht mehr benötigte Daten einfach löschen &#8211; versuch das mal bei einer DVD.</p>
<p>Eine externe Platte mit einem Terabyte erhält man deutlich unter 100 Euro und darauf passen dann ganz grob überschlagen 700.000 Bilder.</p>
<h4>Bildgrößen</h4>
<p>Die Größeneinheit für Bilder ist in der digitalen Welt in Pixeln angegeben. Ein Pixel entspricht einem Bildpunkt den, man auf dem Bildschirm sehen kann. Damit wäre das Bild aber nur schwarz-weiß, daher gibt es noch eine Farbtiefe, die dann angibt wieviel Bits ein Pixel enthält um einen farbigen Punkt darzustellen.</p>
<p>Gängige Farbtiefen, sicherlich auch bekannt aus der Bildschirmauflösung des Computerbildschirms sind</p>
<ul>
<li>8 Bit mit 256 Farben</li>
<li>16 Bit mit 65536 Farben</li>
<li>24 Bit mit 16,7 Millionen Farben</li>
<li>32 bit mit gerundet 430 Millionen Farben.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Rechenbeispiele</h4>
<p>Bei einer Bildschirmauflösung von 1900 x 1200 Pixeln und einer Farbtiefe von 24 bit haben wir dann 5,4720,000 Bits. Ein Byte umfasst acht Bits, also haben wir dann 6,52 MB nur an Rohdaten für die Grafikkarte!</p>
<p>Rechnen wir das noch einmal für eine Digicam mit 12 Megapixeln, dann haben wir (4048 x 3040 x 24) / 8 = 35 MB Rohdaten pro Bild.</p>
<p>Daraus lernen wir, dass Fotos für den Bildschirm so eine Auflösung gar nicht benötigen, da reichen Bilder mit 5 Megapixeln bei 2595 x 1944 mehr als aus.</p>
<h4>Rohformat?</h4>
<p>Spiegelreflex-Profikameras allerdings können die Bilder tatsächlich im Rohformat ablegen und dann sind die Dateien dann auch so riesig! Profi-Fotographen wollen und brauchen die bestmögliche Qualität für Ihre Arbeit.</p>
<h4>Warum sind meine Bilddateien kleiner?</h4>
<p>Digitalfotos mit 35 MB findet man so allerdings bei einer einfachen und herkömmlichen Digicam nicht auf seiner Speicherkarte, weil die Bilder durch spezielle Algorythmen komprimiert sind.</p>
<p>Dabei gibt es zwei wesentliche Methoden der Bilddatenkompression, nämlich mit oder ohne Qualitätsverlust.</p>
<p>Eine Datenkompression funktioniert in der Regel so, dass nach wiederkehrenden Mustern gesucht und diese dann zusammengefasst werden. Somit benötigt man weniger Platz.</p>
<h4>Methode 1: Verlustfrei</h4>
<p>Gängige verlustfreie Formate sind RAW, BMP, TIFF, PNG, JP2, das heißt, alle Bilder, die in diesen Formaten gespeichert werden, behalten ihre volle Qualität. Die allerbeste Kompression hat allerdings JP2, danach folgt PNG und TIFF. RAW und BMP komprimieren gar nicht.</p>
<p>JP2 alias JPEG2000 wird von Windows 7 direkt leider gar nicht unterstützt. Mit dem kostenlosen <a href="http://www.apple.com/de/quicktime/" target="_blank">Apple Quicktime Picture Viewer</a> oder <a href="http://www.xnview.de/" target="_blank">XNView</a> lassen sich diese allerdings anzeigen. Sicherlich kann es auch die eine oder andere Bildbearbeitung. Auf dem Mac ist das gar kein Problem, es ist keine Zusatzsoftware nötig.</p>
<p><a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphakanal" target="_blank">Alphakanäle</a> werden von TIFF, PNG und JP2 unterstützt.</p>
<p>Beispiel Desktop-Wallpaper:</p>
<ul>
<li>BMP = 6,9 MB</li>
<li>TIFF = 2,4 MB ^ Ersparnis 35%</li>
<li>PNG = 1,8 MB ^ Ersparnis 73%</li>
<li>JP2 = 0,3 MB ^ Ersparnis 95% (6 x kleiner als PNG)</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Methode 2: Verlustbehaftet</strong></p>
<p>Beim Musikformat MP3 wird eine Psychoakkustikanalyse vorgenommen und somit werden nicht oder nur schwer hörbare Töne schlichtweg weggelassen. Deshalb bleibt weniger Material übrig das komprimiert werden muss und die Dateien werden letztendlich kleiner.</p>
<p>Bei Bildern funktioniert das recht ähnlich, denn oftmals liegen sehr ähnliche Farben nebeneinander und werden dann einfach zusammengefasst und später durch berechnete Annäherungen (Interpolation) wieder auf dem Bildschirm dargestellt.</p>
<p>Das dort bekannteste Format ist JPG. Man kann sogar die Höhe des Qualitätsverlusts mit den meisten Bildbearbeitungsprogrammen festlegen und dann selbst bestimmen wieviel Verlust man in Kauf nehmen will.</p>
<p>Der Vorteil ist klar: die Datei wird kleiner.</p>
<p>JP2 kann übrigens bei Bedarf genau wie JPG auch verlustbehaftet speichern.</p>
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		<title>Aggregate multiple audio devices</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:13:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaker vs. Headphone Did you ever plug in a headphone? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/aggregate-multiple-audio-devices">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>Speaker vs. Headphone</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1538" title="headphone-speaker-mute" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/headphone-speaker-mute.jpg" alt="" width="116" height="110" />Did you ever plug in a <a title="Headphone" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003JBHLUO?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B003JBHLUO" target="_blank">headphone</a>? Then the same happens like on the iPhone: The Computer is muted and the headphone makes the music. I hate that! Why? Because I am so fussy and want to spare my hardware. Especially jacks are sensitive and easily getting loose. So it would be so much better having a headphone connected, put it aside and still enjoy the <a title="iMac" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B003XLYAWW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;link_code=as3&amp;camp=2514&amp;creative=9386&amp;creativeASIN=B003XLYAWW" target="_blank">iMac&#8217;s</a> speaker sound as well. There is no option anywhere in the preferences, so I have to accept this. The only solution I know is getting an external sound card.</p>
<h3>Phase change</h3>
<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1539 alignright" title="phasex24" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/phasex24.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="65" />So I did, and I am the proud owner of the external <a title="Terratec Phase X24" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B000COKZCW?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B000COKZCW" target="_blank">Terratec Phase X24</a> Firewire audio card. Really great device, and you know what? I can connect a headphone with still having sound everywhere. YES!</p>
<h3>Record</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1540" title="record" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/record.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="64" />I love making music and hopefully you have subscribed <a title="DJ N-4cer Promo Podcast" href="http://www.itunes.com/podcast?id=323879840" target="_blank">my audio podcast</a>. To create my sounds I mainly use software like <a title="Record and Reason" href="http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B0040HDUQ0?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=forweb-21&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1638&amp;creative=19454&amp;creativeASIN=B0040HDUQ0">Record in combination with Reason</a>. Record is so great in connecting audio hardware with multiple inputs and outputs.</p>
<h3>Combine in, combine out</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1541" title="Record-audio" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/Record-audio.jpg" alt="" width="224" height="123" />For my latest song I needed to record my voice while playing the music inside Record. That masterpiece software is able to do that, but my USB microphone was not in there. Checking out all the devices, I noticed for the first time, that Record combines audio devices with inputs and outputs.</p>
<p>Shit happens, my PhaseX24 and the <a title="Samson USB GoMic" href="http://www.samsontech.com/products/productpage.cfm?prodID=2010" target="_blank">Samson GoMic</a> was not listed up in combination.</p>
<h3>Got a Mac? Do it yourself!</h3>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1542" title="midi" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/midi.jpg" alt="" width="64" height="64" />Damn, yeah! I am a Mac user, so that&#8217;s no big deal. I will create my own device!</p>
<p>I have just opened the Audio and MIDI settings, and voila, there is the add button. Give it a name and click all devices I want to have in there. Made a check on PhaseX24 and one Samson USB GoMic, that&#8217;s it! Restarting Record, running to preferences and there it is: my PhaseX24+GoMic device.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH_sYj07SDE" target="_blank"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1545" title="YouTube" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/YouTube.jpg" alt="" width="550" height="335" /></a></p>
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		<title>Newer is not always better</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 11:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is an update If I see an update of an application, I want to have the latest and hottest stuff, of course. But first of all I read the changelog to know what is new or changed, and then &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/newer-is-not-always-better">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3>There is an update</h3>
<p>If I see an update of an application, I want to have the latest and hottest stuff, of course. But first of all I read the changelog to know what is new or changed, and then I do run the update.</p>
<h3>Unwanted changes</h3>
<p>Sometimes, the developers change the behavior of a certain feature or in worst case it is even removed. If I really need this functionality exactly as it was before, it would make sense to downgrade the fresh installed update back to the old version.</p>
<p>New software is not always an improvement. A <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">good</span> bad example is <a href="http://www.aptana.org/studio" target="_blank">Aptana Studio</a> having removed the FTP-Sync functionality from version 1.5 to 2.0. It was so heavenly useful and now it is gone. The developers <a href="https://aptanastudio.tenderapp.com/discussions/questions/74-cannot-find-sync-manager" target="_blank">stated</a> to eventually bringing it back in a future version.</p>
<h3>Back to the past</h3>
<p>If that worst case scenario became true, it is often impossible to get the old version back, because the vendor often just serves the latest version for downloading. But, what if there is no archive existing? Where do you get it?</p>
<h3>For the Mac user</h3>
<p>On a Mac you can use Time Machine and grab your old copy back from the Applications backup folder. But what, if no Time Machine backup was created?</p>
<p>Then go to <a href="http://mac.oldversion.com/" target="_blank">http://mac.oldversion.com/</a> and download what you need. They have a large archive and host really many old versions of favourite applications.</p>
<h3>For the Windows user</h3>
<p>Go to <a href="http://www.oldversion.com/" target="_blank">http://www.oldversion.com/</a> and download your older piece of software.</p>
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		<title>Getting back a lost podcast episode</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:14:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For podcast management I am using iTunes of course. I like iTunes. Really! Sometimes my fingers are too fast and something is trashed, especially podcast episodes. If you are wacking the same as me, then I am sure this or &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/getting-back-a-lost-podcast-episode">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For podcast management I am using iTunes of course. I like iTunes. Really!</p>
<p>Sometimes my fingers are too fast and something is trashed, especially podcast episodes. If you are wacking the same as me, then I am sure this or the other time you want it being undone.</p>
<p>Of course there is a simple and quick way:</p>
<p>Just select any episode or the podcast itself, then hit on the bottom left the <em><strong>unsubscribe</strong></em> button. Then it turns to <strong><em>subscribe</em></strong>, and press it again. Then iTunes will reload the feed and you can download the lost childen, again.</p>
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		<title>G-Mail within Apple Mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 12:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you use a Google mail account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/g-mail-within-apple-mail">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you use a <a href="http://mail.google.com">Google mail</a> account? Then add your account into your Mail application and have no more need to manage your mails via the webmail interface. The webmailer indeed is quick and easy to use, but I like having my mails all together and searchable on my computer.</p>
<p>Take the following settings, to enable it:</p>
<blockquote><p>Incoming mail server: imap.gmail.com<br />
Outgoing mail server: smtp.gmail.com</p>
<p>Username: <strong><em>yourmail</em></strong>@gmail.com<br />
Password: <strong><em>yourpassword</em></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>You also may take these settings, even if you own a <em>googlemail.com</em> address.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1471" title="GMail" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/gmail.jpg" alt="GMail" width="580" height="474" /></p>
<p>On OS X&#8217;s mail.app you will find an extra area on the left hand pane for your Google mail account.</p>
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		<title>Get your webcolor quickly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/get-your-webcolor-quickly">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When working on a website, I often use photos or other websites to get harmonic matching colors. Certainly, the color names can be taken, but sometimes it is better to use a RGB color value for more precision. Not every time I have a graphics program open, but I quickly want to pick the color code.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1456" title="Digital Color meter" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/colormeter.jpg" alt="Digital Color meter" width="405" height="204" /></p>
<p>With OS X comes a handy tiny helper called <strong><em>DigitalColor Meter</em></strong>. You will find that in <strong><em>/Applications/Utilities/</em></strong>. You simply can set the wanted text output format and use <strong><em>Command+Shift+C</em></strong> to get the value into the Clipboard. The settings are autosaved, so on the next start you can continue as you are used to.</p>
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		<title>Quicktime 7 in Snow Leopard</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 08:54:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new Quicktime Player in Snow Leopard is totally reprogrammed. It brings a complete new interface and some innovative features where you needed some additional tools before. With that version Apple focuses to the average user with functions like trimming and &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/quicktime-7-in-snow-leopard">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-full wp-image-1450 alignright" style="margin: 8px;" title="Quicktime Player of Snow Leopard" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/qt-new.png" alt="Quicktime Player of Snow Leopard" width="80" height="80" />The new <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/technology/#quicktimex">Quicktime Player</a> in <a href="http://www.apple.com/macosx/">Snow Leopard</a> is totally reprogrammed. It brings a complete new interface and some innovative features where you needed some additional tools before.</p>
<p>With that version <a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a> focuses to the average user with functions like trimming and uploading videos to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/deejayn4cer">Youtube</a>. This may look simple, but beware that cutting and converting has to be done <strong>before</strong> the upload can begin and now it runs totally by itself without your interactivity.</p>
<p><img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1451" style="margin: 8px;" title="Quicktime Player 7" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/qt7.png" alt="Quicktime Player 7" width="80" height="80" />Trimming was possible in the former versions, too, but not as easy as it is right now. Apple kindly kept the older Quicktime 7 Player and moved it into the <strong><em>/Applications/Utilities/</em></strong> folder. If it is not there for you, you may reinstall it from your Snow Leopard DVD.</p>
<p>I am lucky about that, because there are some mighty features I absolutely do not want to miss like exporting with tons of options and different playback speeds.</p>
<p>What do you think about the new Quicktime player and do you still use the <em>&#8220;old&#8221;</em> one?</p>
<p><strong><em>Image sources:</em></strong> Integrated Application icons by <a href="http://www.apple.com">Apple</a>.</p>
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		<title>Boot from USB instead of DVD</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:39:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too! Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/boot-from-usb-instead-of-dvd">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You do not want to burn a DVD or CD when installing a new operating system or running some maintenance tools? Me not, too!</p>
<p>Espacially, when you want to install something large which normally requires an expensive dual layer DVD or even when no DVD drive is available at all, it makes sense to use a USB device. On a Mac, this can be a standard USB stick or an iPod having the appropriate capacity.</p>
<p>Also using a USB device is really fast und produces less noise.</p>
<p>Ok, here is my short step-by-step guide for you how to make it work:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Note:</em></strong> Doing that will erase <strong>ALL</strong> data on your media!</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open the <em>Disk Utility</em> from the <em>Application / Utilities</em> folder and select your destination USB device. Then go to the &#8220;Partition&#8221; tab and change the scheme from &#8220;Current&#8221; to &#8220;1 Partition&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1418" title="usbboot-1" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-1.jpg" alt="usbboot-1" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Click the options to select the partition mode. To make it bootable on a Mac &#8220;GUID Partition Table&#8221; is required. Check this radio button and confirm with &#8220;ok&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1419" title="usbboot-2" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-2.jpg" alt="usbboot-2" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 3:</strong> &#8220;Apply&#8221; the settings and confirm to &#8220;Partition&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1420" title="usbboot-3" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-3.jpg" alt="usbboot-3" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p><strong>Step 4:</strong> Finally, we need to select that image file to be placed on the USB device. This can be a DMG or ISO file. You can use the <em>Disk Utility</em> tool, to create such images from your DVDs. You can start the process by clicking on &#8220;Restore&#8221;.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><em>Note</em></strong><em>:</em> Do <strong>NOT</strong> copy discs or any other media you are not allowed to!</p></blockquote>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1421" title="usbboot-4" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/usbboot-4.jpg" alt="usbboot-4" width="580" height="443" /></p>
<p>Drop me a comment, if that guide helped you out.</p>
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		<title>Starting apps more than once</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front. In some situations, it would be helpful to &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/starting-apps-more-than-once">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>When an application is running, it normally can not be started a second time. If you run it again from the dock, it will bring up the current running to the front.</p>
<p>In some situations, it would be helpful to start it again &#8211; especially system applications like the network scanner.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1414" title="Instances" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/instances.jpg" alt="Instances" width="518" height="450" /></p>
<p>With the help of <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/pathfinder">Path Finder</a> it is no big deal to start a running application as much times as you need it, by just right-clicking on the app in process sidebar and selecting &#8220;<strong>new instance</strong>&#8220;.</p>
<p>With that way it is easy to manage some unique tasks as a mass task.</p>
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		<title>Auto-quit the printer queue</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The dock contain a large amount of icons and thanks to the scalability of OS X you can resize the dock bar to have them larger or smaller. I personally do prefer only having that applications in the dock which &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/auto-quit-the-printer-queue">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>The dock contain a large amount of icons and thanks to the scalability of OS X you can resize the dock bar to have them larger or smaller.</p>
<p>I personally do prefer only having that applications in the dock which I am using every single day. Those who I do not need shall disappear.</p>
<p>The printer icon is one of them. When a print job is done, the icon will still remain there, and because I am printing quite rare this is annoying me to quit it manually.</p>
<p>There is a simple way out, by just activating the &#8220;Auto-Quit&#8221; option. Just rightclick the printer icon and enable it as shown in the screenshot above.</p>
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		<title>Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test. Many disc accesses are usually done with a &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/running-virtual-machines-from-a-usb-stick">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Since I got my 16 GB <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1400">USB memory stick</a>, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test.</p>
<p>Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank <a href="http://www.parallels.com/download/desktop/">Parallels</a> Windows XP virtual machine image to the stick, hoping the speed would be fantastic.</p>
<p>But, the hope still remains a hope. The speed is just OK, and absolutely <strong>not</strong> faster than directly starting from a harddisk. The USB probing sais 480Mb/sec which is a maximum of 6 MB per second, but the average speed I could measure in fact is 5.2 MB per second.</p>
<p>That is absolutely too slow and the conclusion for me is, that flash memory is only really fast if it will provided over the S-ATA port.</p>
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		<title>Merge them all together</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 05:47:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To feel as fit as a fiddle on my Mac&#8217;s screen I need to have it clean with only that windows in front I am currently working in. For how to hide unwanted applications without termination I blogged the article &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/merge-them-all-together">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1386" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 310px"><img src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/mergewindows.jpg" alt="Merge windows" title="Merge windows" width="300" height="216" class="size-full wp-image-1386" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Merge windows</p></div>
<p>To feel as fit as a fiddle on my Mac&#8217;s screen I need to have it clean with only that windows in front I am currently working in.</p>
<p>For how to hide unwanted applications without termination I blogged the article <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=971">The secrets of hide and seek</a>.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://thecosmicmachine.com/">Eventbox</a> is my best friend when getting updated on <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?feed=rss">RSS feeds</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/n4cer">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/n4cer/">Flickr</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1302464346">Facebook</a>. When clicking the arrow to see the original or full details it opens the source in <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1012">Safari</a> as a new window.</p>
<p>If you click many details, you will get many <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1012">Safari</a> windows open. You can configure <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1012">Safari</a> to put them in tabs. I have not enabled this, because I prefer that when applications open a browser it should be a fresh window.</p>
<p>When having lots of <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1012">Safari</a> windows, but you want to have them just in only one and seperated by tabs, you can go to the menu Window and select merge all windows.</p>
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		<title>Get your password back on a Mac</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 09:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My iMac is my holy shrine and no one except for me is allowed to touch or even to use it. That makes it easy to store all passwords in Safari. Currently, many sites are integrating multiple Sign-In technologies with &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/get-your-password-back-on-a-mac">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My iMac is my holy shrine and no one except for me is allowed to touch or even to use it. That makes it easy to store all passwords in <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/?p=1012">Safari</a>.</p>
<p>Currently, many sites are integrating multiple Sign-In technologies with accounts from other sites like <a href="http://openid.net">OpenId</a>, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1302464346">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/n4cer">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/n4cer/">Flickr</a>, <a href="http://yahoo.com">Yahoo</a> and more. That can be a cool thing, but require to re-authentificate by logging in to your primary account.</p>
<p>One problem is coming with that! The site you need to put in your username and password is not the same as you would visit to login, where the formdata of your browser is stored. And how do you get your password back?</p>
<p>Normally, you could request a password reset, but that takes time, because you need to wait for the email, confirm the link and sometimes to change the password. That is too nasty and it is much easier. Use the Mac’s Keychain Access utility.</p>
<div id="attachment_1381" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 610px"><img src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/keychain.jpg" alt="Keychain access" title="Keychain access" width="600" height="600" class="size-full wp-image-1381" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Keychain access</p></div>
<p>1. Go to Application/Utilities/Keychain Access.<br />
2. Put in the domain of the website your forgot the password.<br />
3. Doubleclick the appropriate name.<br />
4. Put in the checkbox next to “show password”.<br />
5. If you are asked for your Mac password, put it in.<br />
6. See the password and use copy &#038; paste.</p>
<p>Leave me a comment if it helped you.</p>
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		<title>CronniX to schedule your tasks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:18:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know cronjobs? That is a great thing to schedule and let run tasks only once or repeatedly. This comes with every linux. And as you know OS X is based on a BSD. So, you have that functionality &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/cronnix-to-schedule-your-tasks">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you know <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron">cronjobs</a>? That is a great thing to schedule and let run tasks only once or repeatedly. This comes with every linux. And as you know OS X is based on a <a href="http://www.bsd.org/">BSD</a>. So, you have that functionality on your Mac, too.</p>
<p>The most nerving thing is the way how to edit the crontabs. There is unfortunately no simple interface delivered by default or I did not find it, yet. Normally, it is required to open a text editor and know the format to do changes.</p>
<p>The developers from <a href="http://h775982.serverkompetenz.net:9080/abstracture_public/">abstracture</a> did not sleep and created a wonderful application named <a href="http://h775982.serverkompetenz.net:9080/abstracture_public/projects-en/cronnix/">CronniX</a> which is a fantastic easy and simple interface to match exactly the task to edit the crontab.</p>
<div id="attachment_1253" class="wp-caption alignrcenter" style="width: 474px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1253" title="CronniX" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/cronnix.jpg" alt="CronniX" width="464" height="404" /><p class="wp-caption-text">CronniX</p></div>
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		<title>Downloading flashvideos (flv)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 08:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On a Mac it is not a big problem to save flash videos from any websize at all without any extra tools or extensions to the browser. Just use Safari as described in this little tutorial. Step 1: Open your &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/downloading-flashvideos-flv">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>On a Mac it is not a big problem to save flash videos from any websize at all without any extra tools or extensions to the browser. Just use Safari as described in this little tutorial.</p>
<p><strong>Step 1:</strong> Open your favourite flashvideo &#8211; let&#8217;s say on Youtube. Then open the Activity Window using the menubar.</p>
<div id="attachment_1203" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 435px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1203" title="Activity Window" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/video2grab.jpg" alt="Activity Window" width="425" height="158" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Activity Window</p></div>
<p><strong>Step 2:</strong> Now you see the activity window which shows every data file transfer from the current open tab. When the video is playing, then you will notice that the download is still in progress and the transfered size is increasing. But, if the video is already stopped, then it will be line with the largest file size. Just do a doubleclick and watch the flashvideo downloading.</p>
<div id="attachment_1204" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 424px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1204" title="File List" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/video3grab.jpg" alt="File List" width="414" height="305" /><p class="wp-caption-text">File List</p></div>
<p><strong>Step 3:</strong> That&#8217;s it! Once downloaded you can play the flv-file with Quicktime.</p>
<div id="attachment_1205" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 278px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1205" title="Downloading flv" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/video4grab.jpg" alt="Downloading flv" width="268" height="65" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Downloading flv</p></div>
<p><strong>Hint:</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>When you are not able to watch and listen to flv files, then you need the codecs! You may download <a href="http://perian.org/">Perian</a> to have your Mac enabled playing those and AVI videos.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Column selection copy and paste</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am sure you are using the copy and paste technique every day you are using your Mac. Of course this a very impotant feature who nobody would ever like to miss again. Normally you select the text either by &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/column-selection-copy-and-paste">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="attachment_1186" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 255px"><img class="size-full wp-image-1186" title="Column selections" src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/columnselection.jpg" alt="Column selections" width="245" height="312" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Column selections</p></div>
<p>I am sure you are using the <em>copy and paste</em> technique every day you are using your Mac. Of course this a very impotant feature who nobody would ever like to miss again.</p>
<p>Normally you select the text either by keyboard or using the mouse to drag from the start to the end of the text you want to place into the clipboard. This way marks the text floating including it&#8217;s contents line breaks.</p>
<p>On a Mac you even can mark a text by drawing a rectangle! That makes sense if you need a exact text block to be marked. If you are working with text editors quite often, I am sure there was the one or other situation you needed that.</p>
<p>Just hold down the <strong>&lt;OPTION&gt;</strong> key before starting. The mouse pointer changes to a cross fade and then you know, that column selecting is activated. Now hightlight your wanted area, and that&#8217;s it.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Note:</strong> This is only working on Cocoa Text objects, like as in text/word processing fields.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Keep it clean, iTunes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:41:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The iTunes library is one thing I am using day by day. iTunes is even great for converting audio material. In case of that it may happen, that there are tracks inside the library who are not on the harddisk &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/keep-it-clean-itunes">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The <a href="http://www.apple.com/itunes/">iTunes</a> library is one thing I am using day by day. iTunes is even great for converting audio material. In case of that it may happen, that there are tracks inside the library who are not on the harddisk anymore. I hate inconsistent data, so I searched for a way to get rid of those data zombies. They are displayed with an exclamation mark in front of the title name.</p>
<div id="attachment_1125" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 590px"><img src="http://www.markuszeller.com/wp-content/uploads/superremovedeadtracks.jpg" alt="Super Remove Dead Tracks" title="Super Remove Dead Tracks" width="580" height="70" class="size-full wp-image-1125" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Super Remove Dead Tracks</p></div>
<p>On a Mac almost everything is scriptable, and so is iTunes. One of those free cleaners is <a href="http://dougscripts.com/itunes/scripts/ss.php?sp=removedeadsuper">Super Remove Dead Tracks</a>. Install it as described, then restart iTunes. From the scripts menu bar select the Super Remove Dead Tracks and just wait for completion. At the end, a logfile is placed on the desktop, so that you can see what was removed. If something went wrong, you can restore the files from the trashcan.</p>
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		<title>The secrets of hide and seek</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Markus Zeller</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I do really work all the day with my Mac and having tons of applications open at the same time. Some are having only one main window, but most of them are having a couple of child windows. Of course &#8230; <a href="http://www.markuszeller.com/the-secrets-of-hide-and-seek">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I do really work all the day with my Mac and having tons of applications open at the same time. Some are having only one main window, but most of them are having a couple of child windows.</p>
<p>Of course I could use spaces with its multiple desktops, but actually I find it quite exhausting having multiple desktops and to remember where is which application and move all the time. Anyhow it causes me some additional and unwanted stress.</p>
<p>The way I am working is the great functionality using the secrets of <em>hide and seek</em> applications.</p>
<p>First of all, you need to differ between hiding and minimizing.</p>
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