Category Archives: macos

Throughout my various backup schemes, my id3 tags get clobbered. I wrote a script to rewrite the tags based on the filename and directory structure of an mp3 collection: ID3 Tag Namer Script As the comment in the script says: /* * Music needs to be in /Users/username/Music/ * in format Artist/Album/00 Title.mp3 * * […]

So I started researching bitcoin mining and the feasibility of doing it with a laptop. The machine in question is a mid-2012 MacBook Pro. From what I have read, it’s not worth mining bitcoins (or any other semi-mature) cryptocurrencies on a MacBook Pro. I don’t think I’m up to the task of buying an ASIC […]

I recently wanted to move away from commercial screenshot sharing tools (I was using Jing), so I decided to create a script that takes screenshots, allows you to annotate them, then uploads them to my webhost. The host I use is Digital Ocean and I use sftp to upload the image. Here’s the script: That will […]

Mac OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion) makes it relatively easy to create a bootable USB drive for installing Windows 8. You don’t have to be installing Windows 8 to the Mac, it will work on any computer that can boot from USB. I used Mac OS to prepare a bootable USB to install Windows 8 […]

I recently became aware that Mac OS X will cripple a MacBook Pro’s CPU if the battery of the machine is in an “unhealthy” state. We all know that laptop batteries tend to expire before the rest of the computer, losing all capacity or “needing replacement” in as little as two years of everyday usage. For the […]

Zcat is a great tool to output the contents of a gzipped file. You can use it to do snazzy things like pipe a gzipped database archive into mysql without waiting for it to decompress to a normal file first. Coming from Linux, you might just think that Mac OS is similar enough to whip […]