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Unexpected PC upgrade recommendation by PC World magazine
06.14.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Sweet photo taken somewhere in the US
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Offline Gmail, Google Docs, Helvetireader, etc. using Fluid
05.27.09 | Permalink | 14 Comments

UPDATE: Helvetwitter is out! See www.josefrichter.com/helvetwitter
In a previous post, I was explaining how to enable Google Gears within Mozilla Prism to turn Gmail, Google Docs and other Google Applications into stand-alone offline applications, that may come useful e.g. when you are in plane or train.
You may know, that specifically for Mac, there is an alternative [...]
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One more wallpaper with The Hit List to-dos
05.26.09 | Permalink | 28 Comments

My friend Vojto from http://www.infinite.sk/(check his portfolio, talented guy!) sent me his variation on my wallpaper, which displays to-dos from The Hit List. The Hit List is a really very nice alternative to Things. I used it before Things, but I was missing the iPhone version. I beleive they will be adding iPhone version sooner [...]
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Dynamic GTD wallpaper with Things to dos
05.24.09 | Permalink | 13 Comments

I’ve made myself a simple wallpaper with categorized sections, which helps me be more organized. I am also recently using great Things by CulturedCode to do manager. I made use of Things scripting capabilities to display Today’s to-dos on the wallpaper.
Here is what the result looks like:

So here is how to do that:
1. Grab my [...]
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Gmail as a stand-alone offline application using Gears and Prism
05.17.09 | Permalink | 16 Comments

This guide explains how to combine the wonderful new techonologies Mozilla Prism and Google Gears with Gmail to create a fully fledged desktop application that works also in offline mode. It is tested on Mac OS X Leopard, but it should be done the same way under Windows and Linux. In the same way you [...]
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Google Analytics icon 512×512 PNG
05.13.09 | Permalink | Comment?

I have made myself a simple Google Analytics icon for a Mozilla Prism application. I though maybe someone will like it so I decided to share it under Creative Commons Attribution license. Feel free to use it anyhow you wish. If you would like to make it available at your website, it would be nice [...]
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Need for Speed Undercover for iPhone Review
05.13.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

This is probably the first fully mature professional game from iPhone. So far there were only more or less amateurish games – some of them were very good, but it was obvious that they are creations of small teams.
But this one has everything: great smooth graphics, great controls, wonderful music and sound, many various levels [...]
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What’s so great about Macs?
05.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

Here is one of many examples. Installation of an application is as easy as dragging the application icon into applications folder. Simple, clean, foolproof. If you think of it, it is actually very common sense approach, so I wonder how the guys in Microsoft managed to come up with all those stupid installers asking you [...]
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Changing keys on Apple keyboard
04.24.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

I bought a Czech Apple Keyboard recently. But surprisingly, it had a QWERTZ layout. This is an old Czech layout used on typewriters, but I seriously doubt you could get it anymore on any notebook. So I don’t understand why Apple uses it… Anyway, the task was to swap Y and Z key.
I got some [...]
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Batch resize of images in MacOS
11.23.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I was looking for a simple utility for batch resizing of images. I used batch operations in XnView in Windows but can’t find suitable alternative for Mac. Fortunately, I found out that I can easily create such utility myself in Automator. If you don’t want to play with Automator, I give away my utility for [...]