Get your webcolor quickly
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 [...]
LittleSnapper to make Websnapshots
LittleSnapper is a very great application to make screenshots and annotations. The usage is very easy and absolutely intuitive. Using core animation technology this app makes also a lot of fun and feel homie on a Mac.
The greatest feature I like is to make screenshots of Safari. You can specify a screen resolution and it [...]
Downloading flashvideos (flv)
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 favourite flashvideo – let’s say on Youtube. Then open the Activity Window using the menubar.
Step 2: [...]
Keep it clean, iTunes
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 anymore. I hate inconsistent data, so I searched for a way to get rid of [...]
Speedport W701V vs. FritzBox7050
The T-Com Speedport router model W701 V has like many other hardware some hidden talents, but they need to be awaken with the help of tricks. Netzwelt.de wrote an article about the compability of the Speedport hardware and that it would be almost the same like the AVM FritzBox 7050, except for missing a USB [...]
Binary digits in 60 seconds
If you are programming you will get in contact with binary digits sooner or later, well known abbreviated as bits. Then it is good to know what is, how it works, and to be able to calculate them without using a calculator. At the latest when doing a website with HTML or CSS you will [...]
In memoriam club mix tapes
Not very long time ago, I was sampling old mix tapes for a friend. Still owning a Marantz DCC, I took advantage of it’s perfect analog to digital converters to get the best quality possible.
Afterwards, I did some mastering with noise reduction, compressors and equalizers. After all this time, the sound is damn good.
The deep [...]
Making picture mosaics
So often I have seen picture mosaics and I wanted to do one by myself, because I find them so amazing and fantastic.
A picture mosaic is one picture which is made of other pictures as like a screenshot is made with pixels.
Searching a short while lead me to the freeware tool MacOSaiX which does exactly [...]
Latin numerals
The numbers we actually do write are arabic digits, the letters are latin. They are standardized all over the world to have it much easier to communicate all over the world.
But sometimes, you will still find roman numbers, especially on movie intros and outros for the release date. Now, 2008 is then written as MMVIII.
For [...]
iTunes audio encoding
For instance the kids do not have an iPod. They own a Creative Muvo V100 who just knows to handle the common MP3 format.
In my humble opinion I do like the AAC much more than MP3 and most of my audio files are compressed with that codec.
To make it available for the portables I need [...]
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