FFcast2
FFcast helps the user interactively select a screen region and hands over the geometry to an external command, such as FFmpeg, for screen recording.
FFcast helps the user interactively select a screen region and hands over the geometry to an external command, such as FFmpeg, for screen recording.
Send texts, tweets and emails when it’s the right time.
This app is free! The interface is a little bit weird (or unfinished if you will), but the app does what it’s supposed to do. It uses local notifications.
Note: This is an old post, which I just discovered I reblogged to the wrong blog. Sorry.
"Stream/record your desktop/webcam to twitch/owned etc."
Finally a Mac alternative for XSplit
As freelance designers, we rely on many tools and resources to assist in our day to day activities and to plain and simply put – make life easier.
"A crossword based on the Adobe password leak."
Just a quick heads up to yesterday’s post on using “odd” date formatting like dd-mm-yyyy
. Once set in System Preferences, the Finder’s going to use it, except, it also default to “use relative dates”.
There’s an option in View Options of any folder to disable relative dates, but that doesn’t change it for every folder. Make sure to click “Use as Defaults” to set this for every folder.
Great tip from @macdrifter. Didn’t know that you can do this.
Also make sure to read his tip on setting the Finder date.
I am vegetarian. A lot of people I ate with, know that I am. A lot of these people also know that I’m not “religious” about it. I don’t like to tell you what you should be eating. I think everybody is free to choose to eat whatever they want. If I have friends here, I tell them they can buy and store meat in my fridge. If they want to cook meat, I’m not against it.
One thing annoys me though, and this is why I want to write this. More as a personal reference for myself, as opposed to a long ongoing ramble about vegetarianism, factory farming, and living a healthy lifestyle. One thing reappears in a vegetarians’ life repeatedly, and that is omnivores that want to know why you’re vegetarian. It gets to people. Not because they actually care why I am vegetarian, but because they feel guilt because they eat (supposedly) “unhealthy” food, and they know it. So I, as a vegetarian, suddenly appear in their lives, and all of a sudden their own eating habits are not good enough anymore, and they try to legitimize why they kill animals passively.
All I hear are excuses.
Come on, seriously, just get over it. I’m not judging you or your eating habits. I might even say: “That smells really good. What’s it made of?”.
This whole food discussion is annoying me. So many times I had to explain why I’m vegetarian, just to hear excuses over excuses over excuses why someone else can’t be vegetarian.
I’m a vegetarian for ten years now. Can you imagine just how often I had to explain why I’m vegetarian? What is so annoying about this is not because people want an intelligent, grown-up, exchange of thoughts, they only want to legitimize their own “unhealthy” way of living.
The conversation usually starts like this.
Hey, that looks healthy! All vegetables and stuff. Are you vegetarian?
Well, yes I am.
Why are you vegetarian? I couldn’t live that way. I couldn’t imagine a day without meat. I need it.
At this point you lost me already. I heard all these stories before. Yes, you can’t live a day without meat. No, no, really, you can’t. It’s really important. The protein and stuffs. Your body requires it. I get that.
Oh, and by the way, this:
You’re vegetarian? So you’re eating my food’s food?
Never heard that one before. Haha. So funny.
So rather than having a real conversation about healthy living and why I am actually vegetarian, I get to know how other people can’t be vegetarian. To top it off, I get to hear all of that during lunch time. And it is really not about me, it is all about them.
See I just want a break from work and eat my meal. I want to have some nice conversations, laugh, and then get back to work. That’s all I care about.
If you are reading this, it is probably because you just sat next to me and asked me that question, and I really really quickly got the feeling you were legitimizing your supposedly unhealthy eating habits, and at the end I was still not able to tell you why I’m vegetarian.
So if you are really interested in my point of view, you have to understand how I became vegetarian. To get to know that, we need to go back in time, right to the point when I chose to be one. If you are not interested, stop reading, please, but never ask me about food again, OK?
It was in the year 2003. I just got to uni and moved into my first own flat. In that flat I had to do everything by myself. I had to clean, but I als had to cook. See, back then I was really really lazy about cooking. Plus I just hated it. Making meat, from its uncooked form, to the point where you can finally eat it, meant a lot of work. Work I didn’t want to do.
So, there was that. Also, at the same time, I wanted to live a little bit healthier. I wanted to choose what food I eat more carefully. Now that I didn’t have to live at home anymore, I could eat whatever I want. I could break the eating patterns my parents taught me and make up my own. I was overweight at that time and I decided to change my eating habits and to take care of myself.
Combine those two things and you get a really really lazy person, who doesn’t want to waste time cooking, when he can jump on a bike and just cycle hours on end through the city of Munich. Think about it. Meat has to be cooked, an apple falls from the tree and you can eat it right away. That’s what I call convenience food! Plus vegetables have a lot of fiber, and vitamins, and all that other healthy shit in them. If you take a look at your allowed food intake, and consider what experts recommend on ratios for carbohydrates/fat/protein, then it is just much easier to achieve those with a vegetarian diet. Or so, I thought.
I didn’t become a vegetarian from one day to the next. I just decided to eat more healthy foods. Over the course of about a year, the amounts of food in the food categories that I ate, shifted. I ate less and less meat, and more and more vegetables and fruits. To a point where I was wondering why I still ate it? In the end it was just something my parents taught me to eat. What would happen if I dropped meat entirely? And so I did.
At first I didn’t notice anything. I mean, after all, I continued to eat what I like, just no meat anymore. I was really not religious about it, I wasn’t. The first couple of months I dind’t notice much of a change at all. Some months after I ate my last piece of meat however, something happened. I walked through the aisles of my local supermarket and suddenly there was this smell of dead meat. Not just dead meat, it smelled like dead, decomposing, bodies. It trenched the entire area around two important counters. One where they sold dead animals, and right next to it they sold cheese.
That situation was new to me. Never before did I notice just how bad meat actually smells. It was disgusting. In fact, it still is disgusting. I was wondering how I could shove all of that decomposing stinking stuff into my mouth all the years. I mean I wasn’t really religious about vegetarianism, but there I was, a young man, 23 years of age, wanting to buy cheese. And there was this counter, with the dead animal meat, that prevented me from reaching the cheese counter.
At that point it was clear to me that I’m not going back to meat-eating anytime soon. I stood a vegetarian, not anymore because it was inconvenient to cook meat, but because imagining myself eating something so bad, was just out of the question.
Long time passed. I eventually graduated and moved to Stuttgart. Things didn’t change much. Actually nothing changed ever, but a couple of years ago, the documentary wave started. One of the first movies that became popular was An Inconvient Truth. That movie made me stick to green living. But another movie then made me stick to vegetarianism, and that movie was Food, Inc.. If you are an omnivore, don’t watch it. I think what it does to omnivores is by far worse, than what it does to vegetarians and vegans.
Food, Inc. takes you through the worst of factory farming. As an omnivore it increases your level of guilt for a couple of days because you just watched that movie, and you’re still eating meat. How can you be such a cruel monster when you are aware of all of that? As a vegetarian, you’re more like: “Oh yeah, that’s bad. That’s really bad! I didn’t know it was that bad. Glad I’m vegetarian and don’t support that industry with my money.” So for vegetarians it just solidifies a point that existed already, for omnivores it makes them feel bad about themselves. I don’t think you should feel bad about yourself just because of the food you choose to eat.
That movie plus books, articles, and just my own life experience changed my views. I’m still not religiously trying to “convert” people to vegetarianism. I don’t care what you eat. Really. Eat whatever makes you happy. I have my views. Of course I think you don’t eat right. Of course I do. Of course I think you kill animals. Because with your demand for meat, that’s what you do. But that’s what I do with my vegetarianism. I create a demand for moss. Of course I don’t think you are a bad person generally. Your eating habits are just part of who you are. You are not your eating habits. I like you way more than that. Of course I think that way. Why do you think I’m vegetarian for over 10 years? But all of that doesn’t mean that I can’t accept that other people don’t choose to live the way I do. And that is totally fine by me.
So, if you are an omnivore, and you read this. This is why I’m vegetarian. I’m not religious about it, so don’t try to be religious about your meat-eating habits and let’s have a nice chat instead. Maybe about the weather. Yeah, let’s talk about the weather during our lunch break. That sounds good.
onethingwell:
Chat using iMessage from your terminal.
I’d like to add this lovely quote:
Tired of getting off your terminal screen to answer those dickhead friends of yours?
Now you can curse them right from the terminal!
"ArnoldC is an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies."
Some time ago I expressed on my public Twitter profile that I also have a private profile. I use this profile as a sort-of “quick diary”. The essential idea is really simple. I’m using Day One for journaling. The only problem is that sometimes I don’t want to pull out the “big” Day One app, just to jot down a basic thought that I had.
I find Twitter to be a really good way to do this quick journaling, because Twitter is so abundantly available. You can send a Tweet from basically everywhere. This makes it perfect as a journal! The only downside is that it’s not that easily possible to import the tweets into Day One. I still like to use my private account for this, though I wanted to extend on my original idea just a little bit.
My gut tells me Sven is going to like this.
I’m using Federicco’s Send to Dropbox workflow to open attachments URL’s automatically on OS X. I thought that was a pretty clever idea, and my idea is based on that one.
Hazel monitors the folder for a mail to come in. It scans for the filename. If it contains the word “#journal
” it triggers an action. The action itself is really simple. I wanted to be able to also attach photos, in case I send one along. Photos sent from the iOS Photos app always get the name “photo.JPG
”, if it’s a photo, and “photo.PNG
”, if it’s a screen shot. Checks whether there is also a photo somewhere with the text and pipes it to Day One’s CLI tool.
theFile=$(echo "$1")
journalentry=$(grep -v -e "Written with major efforts on an iPhone." -e "Written with major efforts on an iPad." "$theFile")
photo="$HOME/Dropbox/Apps/Attachments/photo"
if [[ -e "$photo.JPG" ]]; then
echo "JPG"
photo="$photo.JPG"
elif [[ -e "$photo.PNG" ]]; then
echo "PNG"
photo="$photo.PNG"
fi
if [[ -e "$photo" && -e "$theFile" ]]; then
echo "$journalentry" | /usr/local/bin/dayone -p="$photo" new
rm "$photo"
elif [[ ! -e "$photo" && -e "$theFile" ]]; then
echo "$journalentry" | /usr/local/bin/dayone new
fi
Note the journalentry
variable at the top of this script. The two grep
commands filter out my email signature.
"jrnl is a simple journal application for your command line. Journals are stored as human readable plain text files - you can put them into a Dropbox folder for instant syncing and you can be assured that your journal will still be readable in 2050, when all your fancy iPad journal applications will long be forgotten.
jrnl also plays nice with the fabulous DayOne and can read and write directly from and to DayOne Journals.”
I found this handy bookmarklet from 7 Speed Reading. Spreeder is a website that allows you to speed read any selected text on a webpage.
Unfortunately doesn’t train fixations, just speed reading. I guess they want to leave that part to their non-free 7 Speed Reading software.
Perl is fairly straight forward, but I didn’t know that Bash supports this too. I think the implementation is pretty cool. Bash uses RegEx to allow users to test for a range. ❤
I wanted to use this for a Hazel Script to Sort Square Images, but I found the syntax to be too complicated. (The regular expression encloses two variables to compare against)
Photoshopping Real Women Into Cover Models
"This is how I always wanted to see myself, but now that I see it, I’m questioning why I ever wanted to look like that."
After my endeavors with Launch Center Pro I also wanted to have meditation timers in Drafts, because I thought it’s better equipped for the job (and also just out of pure “why the heck not”).
This is a Drafts action that uses Due to set the end of a meditation session. At the end Day One will be opened to create a new diary entry, as meditation log. Here’s the action:
drafts://x-callback-url/import_action?type=URL&name=Meditate&url=due%3A%2F%2Fx-callback-url%2Fadd%3Ftitle%3DMeditate%2520dayone%253A%252F%252Fpost%253Fentry%253D%7B%7B%2523%2523%2523%2520Meditation%2520Log%2520dtstamp%2520%2523%2523%2523%250A%250A%7D%7D%5B%5Bdraft%5D%5D%7B%7B%2520minutes.%250A%250A%7D%7D%26minslater%3D%5B%5Bdraft%5D%5D
The URL action basically looks like this:
due://x-callback-url/add?title=Meditate%20dayone%3A%2F%2Fpost%3Fentry%3D{{%23%23%23%20Meditation%20Log%20dtstamp%20%23%23%23%0A%0A}}[[draft]]{{%20minutes.%0A%0A}}&minslater=[[draft]]
Essentially a new timer is added to Due with a URL that creates a new diary entry in Day One with the following content:
### Meditation Log ###
[[title]] minutes
%|
The URL also uses the &minslater
option for Due to set the alarm.
There are actually two new lines at the end, which you wouldn’t see in this post, so I wrote %|
to indicate where the cursor will be after the URL is launched.
What I really like about this method is that I can set meditation timer to any time I want and the time is still going to be recorded in Day One.
"Dev Lite for app.net gives you a personal access token that you can use to talk directly with the app.net API. You can use it to hand-craft custom queries or to try out a new client idea before committing to a full developer account."
Make Keyboard Maestro/Alfred/LaunchBar post an update to ADN with curl
, anyone?
via app.net
I’ve been out recently where some friends told me their kid is now playing with there iPhones/iPads. They said that the kid sometimes also deletes apps. A MindNode customer also just wrote in to MindNode support with this problem.
I thought technical-savvy parents know this, but apparently not.
To make uninstalling of apps a little bit harder for your kids:
Your kid can use your phone now more “safely”. To enable deletion, disable restrictions. There are other things that you can disallow too, like visiting certain websites, and so forth.
How to Predict the Odds of Anything
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I found yesterday’s Sketch plugin on this brand new Sketch blog Sketch Tricks.
I didn’t even know Sketch had a plugin interface. This is pretty cool for designers.