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Rails and the iPhone
With the growing Rails and iPhone communities, many developers seek ways to easily interact with their Rails applications on their iPhones. Enter ObjectiveResource, a framework for interacting with Rails on your iPhone. Go to iphoneonrails.com to learn more.
ObjectiveResource is an Objective-C port of Ruby on Rails’ ActiveResource. It provides a way to serialize objects to and from Rails’ standard RESTful web-services (via XML or JSON) and handles much of the complexity involved with invoking web-services of any language from the iPhone.
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Adjust What the History Command Shows
By default on OS X, the history command (accessed via the terminal) shows the last 500 commands including multiple entries that are the exact same. Just to find an old useful command, you may have to sort through 100’s of ls and cd commands. Wouldn’t it be nice to show only unique commands, and remove the duplicates, or store a larger history? Well you can and it is very simple to set the variables to control what the history command shows on the MAC terminal.
Launch a terminal, by default you should be put into your home directory. To make sure you are in your HOME, just type: Read the rest of this entry » -
Remote Control Windows XP from a MAC
There are other ways to do this but this is the simplest and only requires installing 1 application.
- Download and install the Remote Desktop Connection application for MAC.
- On your XP machine, right click My Computer and select properties.
- Select ‘Allow users to connect remotely to this computer’
- Get the IP address of your XP machine, open a command prompt and type ipconfig)
- Back on your MAC, launch the Remote Desktop Connection program and connect using the IP found in step.
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Never Download a Codec Again
Windows Media Player is a real pain since it will not play DIVX and XVID out of the box, you can get video but no audio or vice versa. There are so many codecs out there, that you end up installing more than you need in order to play most downloaded content, is it really quite annoying. Enter VLC player.
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OpenOffice 3.0.1 Has Been Released
OpenOffice 3.0.1 has come out 2 days earlier than expected. You can get it on the P2P portion of the OpenOffice website, or you can download the torrent here here.
For those that do not know what OpenOffice is, read more about it here. OpenOffice could do to Microsoft Office what Firefox has done to Internet Explorer. It has come a long way from being a bloated java application to a more than suitable alternative to Microsoft Office. About the only thing OpenOffice is still not great at is spreadsheets, it will not replace Excel for the power spreadsheet user or so I have been told.