November 2011
4 posts
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WoW fullscreen on a second monitor
Using WoW on a notebook? Want it fullscreen on that lovely second screen? Here’s how. First, make sure the displays are side by side, not above and below (you do this by dragging their graphic in the displays config). Now click and drag the little menu bar graphic from the notebook (smaller screen) onto the larger monitor in the config window.
It all moved right? Almost there. In WoW, in...
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grab an off screen window
When you work with multiple monitors, sometimes a window will spawn or move inaccessibly offscreen, like onto a monitor that is plugged in but off/broken/in-use-by-something-else. If you’re in gnome there’s an easy way to grab the sucker and bring it into view.
alt-spacebar, then press m
This will attach the window to the mouse cursor so you can move it. Just move the mouse until the...
PSD Tuts →
Super Tip! This website has heaps of fantastic photoshop tutorials. They got me going when I started making games. The tutorials are short and effective, with lots of premium content available if you feel like joining up.
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maya custom shelf os x
Maya’s custom shelves sure are handy. Want on of your own? In OSX it’s a little trickier than the manual makes it sound to add menu items to the shelf. Here’s a rundown:
Menu Items: hold control and shift and click the menu item you want to add. But this is tricky! You have to be holding control & shift together before even opening the menus at all. if you press them after...
October 2011
7 posts
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iphoto resolution tagger script
I like to keep an iPhoto library for wallpaper. But iPhoto doesn’t sort by resolution! This is bad for anyone with multiple resolutions. So… I wrote a script for it! Open iPhoto, select the photos you want tagged, and run the script. Poof! your wallpaper will now be tagged (in description, not keyword) by what device they would be good for.
iPhoto Tagger download
You can also edit...
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handbrake queue script
Adding lots of files to Handbrake manually is such a drag, I wrote this script to make life rainbows again. Just open Handbrake, select a folder from the open menu, and run the script. Voila! Queue filled. Download below.
fill handbrake queue script
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how to use FileMerge as a difftool with GIT →
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gitignore starter files →
these will get you started
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ignore something in GIT
To ignore a file/folder in your git repo, you have to (1) add it to the gitignore file and (2) remove it from the project archive. This won’t delete it from the working directory.
Add to gitignore
You need to create and edit a file called (dot) .gitignore inside your project folder. Add one line with the relative path of each file you want to ignore. Folder should end with a /(slash).
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Leave the Game Centre Sandbox
The sandbox is all well and good, you say, but how do I get out of it?? Fear not, the solution is simple.
In the game centre app, log out of your ID.
Using the multitasking menu, close all games that use game centre.
Open a non beta game and log into game centre from inside.
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Unhide your Lion library
You may have noticed your Library folder is curiously absent in OS 10.7 (Lion). What, you cry? Where did it go? Well, it’s still there but Apple has hidden it, presumably to keep us from injuring ourselves by meddling. Even better, I can show you how to un-hide it again!
Open your trusty terminal and run:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
and to hide it again, simply type
chflags hidden...
September 2011
5 posts
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wmii: a complete guide to install and config
WMII can be configured basically or hardcore. A basic config goes in
~/.wmii/wmiirc_local
and contains theme details, key bindings, tag rules. A more hardcorde config uses the full wmiirc file which configures [[Wmii]] when it runs. This controls all aspects of the window manager (use with care). It goes in
~/.wmii/wmiirc
I’ll break the config down into modules you can add into your...
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make vim colorful (syntax highlighting)
Vim is a pretty colorful app but it doesn’t come this way by default on many systems. You can turn on color syntax highlighting by editing the .vimrc in your home dir.
if $COLORTERM=='rxvt'
set t_Co=256
endif
colorscheme myNeatColorTheme
set background=dark
syntax on
The line
colorscheme myNeatColorTheme
is where you specify the color highlight theme you want to use. Themes are...
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make grep colorful
Your grep searches can be colored on matches. You can set it in your shell profile. The color is set by the environment variable GREP_COLOR. Add this to your shell preferences (eg. .cshrc .bashrc .profile):
# color to user for grep matches
setenv GREP_COLOR '0;32' #green
setenv GREP_OPTIONS '--color=auto'
Or without these settings in the shell, the command for grep is aliased to that it asks...
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make top colorful
top has a few different color modes you can setup. while top is running, type
z
to toggle color, and to sort by res memory,
shift-m
The cool thing is you can save these choices to a pref file by just hitting
shift-w
after doing the above. Then your top will always open sorted correctly and colorised!
Alternatively you could just put this in .toprc in ~/
RCfile for "top with windows" #...
July 2011
1 post
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