Media on Mac

I had huge problems playing different media files on my Mac. For example DivX files played without sound. After installing http://perian.org/ everything seams to work a little better. A little astonishing that a machine that is designed for media needs media plugins. But never mind it works fine now.

Rar on Mac OSX

I just downloaded a .rar file onto my Mac and of course it didn't understand it. So off I went to google and looked for something that could extract it. I found a lot of proprietary stuff but nothing really I liked. If you are looking for a funky GUI what you probably are if you are using a Mac you should have a look at http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html which seams to be a good choice. But I didn't want another program that would integrate itself everywhere and in the end might cause my computer to crash every 25 min. (The Windows application syndrome). But all this looking around took me about 15 minutes till I had the feeling to have looked at all the options. Then I fired up a good old shell and had a look what fink had to offer. And after 1 line I could unrar my file
$ fink install unrar
That was it. I still love the command line, even if I have a funky desktop.

Jonathan is runnig Mac

Have a look at this http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/unified_computing what do you notice?
I am sure this is a picture of a Mac window. So are you telling me the CEO of Sun which actually produce two desktop operating systems has a Mac. No wonder they are going down hill. How can a CEO even post something like this. I wish someone would get rid of this idiot.

Little cal dashboard app

I am to lazy to remember which month is which number in the year and how many days the month has. Normally I just fire up my dashboard on my mac and use the calendar there, but today I was playing about with Xcode and so I decided to write a little dash app that will show me the calendar information. And so I wrote my first mac app in HTML, what is the world coming too. 

Maybe if I get more time I will add a few more features but for now it does everything I need. Show me the number of months in a Year :P

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