Techie Stuff

DriveNet’s Mac App Picks: Favorite Open Source/Free Guitar Apps for the practicing musician (2010)

Posted on 2010.06.22 Updated on 2014.09.05

Undoubtedly, one of the bigger benefits of going to grad school is the large amount of time that one can invest in constructive procrastination. As panamanian PhD Comics author Jorge Cham puts it:

So get out there and procrastinate. Procrastinate with purpose and with pride.

And this is exactly what I do when “I am suposed to be doing research”, I test Open Source/freeware mac applications compulsively until I find something that I like and I can make good use of Read the rest of this entry »

This entry was posted in Artsy stuff, Entertainment, Mac, On Music, Techie Stuff and tagged apple, apps, Audio, audio apps, composition, guitar, guitar apps, guitar tab software, guitar tuner, lightweight audio player, Mac, metronome, mucisian, open source, Oscillating Rhythms, practice, practicing musician, software, tabs, tuna pitch, tuxguitar, vox.

Mac Icon for Panasonic FZ35 Camera

Posted on 2010.05.24 Updated on 2010.05.24

Drivenet's Panasonic FZ35 Mac Icon — Drivenet's Panasonic(c) FZ-35 Mac Icon Preview

Alright, since I am really into Mac Icons and I could not find a mac icon for my newly acquired FZ-35, I made one for myself and now I am sharing it with the world….

The following icons should be used for non-commercial personal purposes only.

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This entry was posted in Mac, Mac Icons, Techie Stuff and tagged Digital Camera, FZ-35, Mac, Mac icons, Panasonic, Panasonic FZ-35.

Solved: a Snow Leopard bug that blocks Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail when activating Parental Controls

Posted on 2010.01.16 Updated on 2010.05.24

Snow Leopard is great… Maybe not. It has a few weird and annoying bugs and drawbacks that really hurt its functionality. There are graphic glitches on my macbook (2007) when running Plex and XBMC, the creepy data loss bug,and no parallels 2.5 free upgrade support, just to mention Read the rest of this entry »

This entry was posted in Mac, Techie Stuff and tagged blocked, email issues, Gmail, hotmail, Mac, Mac Mini, mac os x, Parental Controls, secure connections, Snow Leopard, Try to limit access to adult websites automatically, yahoo mail.

GT Buzz Icon Set for Mac

Posted on 2009.04.06 Updated on 2014.09.05

After frustrated attempts of finding a cool GT-Buzz Mac Icon on the web, I decided to make my own.

The following icons should be used for non-commercial personal purposes only.

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This entry was posted in Georgia Tech, Mac, Mac Icons, Techie Stuff and tagged Buzz, College Icon, download, Georgia Institutoe of Technology, Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech Buzz Mac Icon, Georgia Tech Mac Icon, GT, GT Mac Icon, Icon, leopard, Mac, mac icon, mac os x, university icons.

Fix xterm launch from Terminal.app in Mac OS X 10.5 (display error solved!)

Posted on 2009.02.26 Updated on 2009.02.27

Ok, so recently I started playing with ported apps on Leopard using Fink and Macports. Specifically, I installed the ARB Package as indicated in http://greengenes.lbl.gov/mlds/.

In one of the steps of the painful procedure it is suggested that launching xterm from the Terminal.app should be enabled, so this is how I came across this techie challenge. After upgrading to the latest version of X11 from Quartz, and after installing Mac’s Xcode tools. I proceeded to launch the X11 Terminal window from the Terminal.app command line, by issuing the following command:

xterm

But I got the following error: Read the rest of this entry »

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