Ruby on Rails on your Mac

HiveLogic now has updated their detailed article on installed Ruby on Rails on Mac OS X

Check it out!

Innovation or copycat?

See this interactive map. It’s nicely done but is it an innovation or just another copycat?

iPod to TV for cheap

If you happen to have iPod 4th generation or the iPod Video, you’d probably want to put your slide show or movie on the big screen. But the Apple’s video cable a bit expensive for you, This is what you need:

A plain camcorder A/V-to-RCA cable

I have mine came with the Sony DV

With the help from those great guys from Oreilly

So I can now play movies and slide show for cheap!

My birthday gift

My beloved girl friend bought me an iPod video for my birthday. It’s just wonderful. And the engraved text….ahhh…lovely!

Thanks my dear!!!

iPod video 1
iPod video 2
iPod video 3

I’ve transferred half of my CDs to my new and first iPod. Now I’m getting my DVDs to it.

You’ll need some tools for that. Follow the settings found here with Handbrake. Enjoy!

I’m back!

It’s been a long time since my last online appearance. I finally redesigned my site and with the amazing blosxom.

My next goal is to refine my AppleScript application “MidiConverter 2.0” which will incorporate 3GP export option. There’s some issue for different CPU that I need to work it out.

Another new is about FlashLite enabled mobile phone is finally here. The Sony Ericsson W800 is first on the market with FlashLite installed as standard world wide. I’m expecting to have some FlashLite stuff coming. But that really depends on my day job.

Happy surfing.

Finally I write again

It’s been a long time that I’ve written any publication besides work stuff. Finally I’ve written one for review a very great utility from Dicom Datautveckling AB.

You can read my article online from HKMUG.

Sadly this article was done on the very same day that pop star Leslie Cheung committed suicide on that evening. Life goes on. Live!

MidiConverter 0.4.2

This is the latest release of MidiConverter for batch convert MIDI files to AIFF and WAVE files.

Now it will remember the export settings that you no longer have to set it every time.

Notes: Unicode characters in the log is still NOT saved correctly. You should copy and paste the log if you want to preserve Unicode characters, particular Chinese, Japanese and Korean.

Download MidiConverter 0.4.2

System Requirement:

Quicktime Pro 5.0.2 and Mac OS X 10.1 or better. 10.2 is recommended for better operation.

Fee:

This is freeware for strictly non-profit personal use. For profit making entities, please contact me for the price on usage.

Password Generator 1.0.1

This is a Cocoa application for generating passwords. A good tools for whatever server administrators who need to set up massive passwords for users.

Download Password Generator 1.0.1

Features:

  • Default 4 sets of characters: uppercase letters, lowercase letters, digits, and symbols for user to choose to mix their passwords
  • One custom set to let user to add their own characters
  • Maximum length of password is limited between 1 and 100
  • Maximum number of passwords to be generated is limited between 1 and 9999

System Requirement:

Mac OS X 10.1 or better. 10.2 is recommended.

Fee:

This is freeware for strictly non-profit personal use. For profit making entities, please contact me for the price on usage.

Filing Agent 1.0.1

Filing Agent is for arranging contents of folders into sub-folders using their names’ first character and such folders will be created accordingly. Works with Chinese, Japanese and Korean and should work with any languages supported by Mac OS X.

Download Filing Agent 1.0.1

System Requirement:

Mac OS X 10.1 or better. 10.2 is recommended for better operation.

Fee:

This is freeware for strictly non-profit personal use. For profit making entities, please contact me for the price on usage.

Simply Luck 1.0

This is the first release of Simply Luck for lucky draw. Great for events like Christmas party or organization gathering.

Download Simply Luck 1.0

System Requirement:

Quicktime Pro 5.0.2 and Mac OS X 10.1 or better. 10.2 is recommended for better operation.

Fee:

This is freeware for strictly non-profit personal use. For profit making entities, please contact me for the price on usage.