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An excellent collection of little songs using OSX’s internal speech system. Now THIS was a triumph!
osascript -e ’say “oh This is a silly song silly song silly song this is the silliest song ive ever ever heard So why keep you listening listening listening while you are supposed to work to work to [...]

Looks like it’s not an isolated problem. In my case, the “blisters” appeared during a flight (maybe the preasure on the cabin dropped a little, making the air beneath the adhesive expand… or something?!) and disappeared after the landing. The trauma did last longer than that, though: whenever I get to the System Preferences > [...]

Getting Rails (and related stuff - RMagick, MySQL, etc) to run on OS X is an easy task, although not as straightforward as it seems at first. Here’s a small collection of things that you have to do to have it done in just a few minutes:
- Install MacPorts, an apt-get like package manager for [...]

So, after buying a nice and shiny expensive Mac computer that will help a lot on your day-to-day developer life (OSX is better than anything… at least that’s what they say) you just find out that there is NO JavaME development toolkit made to run on the beloved fruity OS.
Fear not: it is still possible [...]

Same arguments apply to myopic people, of course. Nice thoughts from a wannabe fanboy on his pursuit for a usable OS (and why fonts are a very important portion of that matter!)

So your top-notch, picture-perfect, super-duper OS doesn’t support one of the most basic things ever invented - cut and paste. What do you do about it?
a) “It’s not like that because it’s DANGEROUS!”
b) “This is not an issue, I’d never cut a file anyway!”
c) “My OS is perfect, it doesn’t need a fuckin’ cut+paste…”
All very [...]

A verdade às vezes é cruel… Especialmente para os “seguidores sem cérebro” de qualquer crença/tecnologia, como dá pra ver nos comentários do vídeo.

The truth sometimes hurts… Specially the devotees of anything, as the comments really demonstrate.

If you (like me) don’t like iTunes (or simply like the idea of having alternatives), Floola is probably one of the best option around. This small app allows you to playback and manage your tracks in a simple one-page interface. It also allows you to copy files from/to the iPod, so you can share [...]