Software As She’s Developed

As a podcatcher (among other things), iTunes sucks. Badly. iPodder is nicer, mainly because I can keep my follow list in the cloud at PodNova. However, it (or the combination with podnova) often ends up downloading gigs of old stuff, on some particular feeds. Worse, it consumes obscene quantities of memory and CPU, with its [...]

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Let's say you wanted to capture a few images for a fade effect, which means you need a sequence of rapid screenshots. Here's a script I've been using: i=0 ; while [ 1 ] ; do i=expr $i + 1 ; screencapture -C $i.png ; sleep 0.1; done Hit ctrl-c to kill it, then [...]

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