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Tips and Tricks

Getting Printer Icon For Your CUPS-PDF Printer

by Takashi Yoshida on May 28, 2010

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I use CUPS-PDF to print all documents as PDF files. Mac OS X allows user to save documents as PDF without additional software, but I prefer to use CUPS-PDF instead. Reasons for choosing CUPS-PDF: I’m too lazy to choose ‘Save as PDF’ from print dialog You can also share this CUPS-PDF with virtual machines so [...]

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Playing Quake 2 on Web Browser

by Takashi Yoshida on April 3, 2010

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Google Web Toolkit team used Jake2, Google Web Toolkit, WebGL and WebSocket to run Quake 2 on web browsers. The project has comprehensive instructions on how you can get started, but I found out that some instructions are missing so it was not possible to build and play Quake 2 immediately. I hope this post [...]

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I have been using LaunchBar since version 3 (as of now, version 5 RC4) and one of the features I like is being able to run search from its simple interface. After activating LaunchBar (with simple Control-Space key combination), I enter ‘goog’ (short for Google search) and press Enter key. Type your search terms and [...]

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Rigging My New Workstation for Productivity

by Takashi Yoshida on May 9, 2009

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I finally received a new workstation (Dell Precision T3500) at work. My old one from two years ago (Another Dell machine, running dual Pentium 4 3.0GHz with 4GB RAM) builds my project in 12 minutes from scratch (Visual Studio 2005 project containing 82 sub-projects). My colleague’s workstation builds it in less than 3 minutes. I [...]

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Review: Becoming Productive in Xcode

by Takashi Yoshida on February 23, 2009

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I spent some time watching Becoming Productive in Xcode (by Mike Clark) from The Pragmatic Bookshelf. I have used Xcode (and I am still learning Cocoa) but I am still a Xcode beginner (I use code completion and that’s it). After checking out the free sampler video, I thought it might be worth US$10 to [...]

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I am looking into using Apache ActiveMQ for my work. Since I have never used it before, I thought I might try installing it and play with it a bit on my MacBook Pro. Below describes my experience on installing Apache ActiveMQ from source. Before you get started and follow steps below (which takes some [...]

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