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Download all mp3 on a webpage

September 29th, 2009 | How To, Linux, OS X, Ubuntu | No comments

Ever wanted to download all the audio files off a particular webpage? You could manually click and save each one or load up terminal and use this one-liner. Remember to only use this for sites that are allowing you do download their content free of charge; stealing is wrong!

curl -s SITEURL | grep -oie “\(http\|https\|ftp\|www\).*\.\(mp3\|aac\|wav\|m4a\|ogg\|flac\|aiff\|mp4\|wma\|ram\|ra\)” [...]

How To FULLY Disable Spotlight in Leopard

May 12th, 2009 | How To, OS X | No comments

Warning: This is changing system settings that may or may not be attached to other tools. After an extensive search on the internet, one of these tools affected by the following steps is TimeMachine/TimeCapsule. If you are using them, I would not follow these steps. Rule of thumb: if you think it will mess up [...]

Quickly, and efficiently, mass rename files in bash

June 18th, 2008 | How To, Linux, OS X, Ubuntu | 1 comment

Quick tip for everyone who is using Mac OS X, Unix, or anything with bash. If you want to mass rename a bunch of files, there isn’t a simple way of doing it. Either you would have to do it manually ((mv ryan.txt steve.txt)) or you could use this simple line of code.

ls ryan.* | [...]

Safari 3.1.1 and Saft 10.0.7

April 16th, 2008 | How To, OS X | No comments

I have always used Webkit ever since switching to Safari as my general browser. Being that I’m always getting the newest build, I know what’s coming when Safari decides to upgrade.
Since Apple updated Safari from 3.1 to 3.1.1, Saft, a wonderful “addon/plugin/what-have-you”, breaks. I know Hao Li at haoli.dnsalias.com will be updating it pretty soon, [...]

Safari 3.1 and Pith Helmet

March 19th, 2008 | General, How To, OS X | 6 comments

Recently Apple updated their browser Safari to version 3.1. It does boast new features that us web developers love, but it also crashes some hacks we also love. Note that I’m not calling them “plug-ins”. Read the reasoning behind this.
Now, one of my favorite Safari hacks has been Pith Helmet and with the new update, [...]

CheckUp – How to uninstall

January 3rd, 2008 | How To, OS X | 6 comments

I love installing, previewing, reviewing, alpha-, beta-, gamma- testing applications. This includes applications that might not work, might cause problems for me later on, or just plain suck. I have run into many of these programs/applications before. The last problem I want to deal with is not being able to fully remove it.
The latest of [...]

Leopard: Turn off Bonjour (mDNSResponder)

November 6th, 2007 | How To, OS X | 60 comments

I recently upgrades to Leopard and the operating system has been great. After installing my core set of programs, I noticed that mDNSResponder was going nuts. Being that I am on an university network, there are hundreds on the current sub-network. By default, Leopard has a “feature” that lists all the local computers (windows or [...]

Solution to The Spanner's "A bit of fun" challenge

October 25th, 2007 | How To, Javascript, Web Programming | 2 comments

A while back, The Spanner’s very own Gareth Heyes posted a decent challenge. As I stated in a previous posting I took on the challenge. It didn’t take as long as I thought it would, but it was still challenging. I’ve waited a while before posting the actual code I used; that way people can [...]

Mac Tip #2 – Automatic iTunes Podcast Playlist

July 20th, 2007 | How To, OS X, Screencast, Windows | No comments

I show you how to listen to your podcasts continuously. I hope you like it.

Mac Tip #1: Setting Two Sound Settings

July 11th, 2007 | How To, OS X, Screencast | 1 comment

Mac Tip #1: A very simple how to on how to set two different sound settings.