Squeeze wins on your hard drive space in Snow Leopard
February 28, 2010
Snow Leopard introduced a novelty in her HFS filesystem that did not get much publicity: the ability to compress files and treat them just like normal files. This compression is enabled in certain applications of the system to reduce your disk space, and although Apple has made some utilities for the console, has given no option graphic to select another folder.
Squeeze is a small program that installs as a preference pane and works in the background doing precisely that task. Once you specify the folders you want to keep compressing them, analyze and process all your files. This task, since it is held in the idle time of your processor, take a while, but at the end we won more or less depending on the type gigs of files that are compressed.
The side effects of this application may be several. First, the CPU be busier , since you have to unzip a file each time it is opened. But as they say, in most cases only a small part decompress the file, which will remain in the cache memory and also the additional time will be offset by the lower number of data to be read in our relatively slow hard disk. We must also bear in mind that this application detects when a file is not ideal to compress (eg a video or a song), obviously.
Another problem is that file systems are usually very sensitive, and make a transaction of this nature can become corrupt the system on failure. In principle this is unlikely, since we are using official tools from Apple, as well Squeeze works on a copy, so that in case of error would be the original files intact.
The only drawback I’ve found that apart from this is that is not compatible with Bootcamp . That is, files compressed with this scheme can not be read from Windows, I suppose because the driver is not activated. The application works only in Snow Leopard because it uses the system discussed in the beginning, and costs about $ 10. Fortunately, these days we get so free through MacHeist so … make haste!
Official Site | Squeeze
Link | Offer MacHeist
Using two (or more) instances of both Dropbox
February 28, 2010
The official wiki Dropbox have a great trick to use Dropbox several accounts at once , at least in systems Unix (ie Linux and Mac). The aim was clear: to expand capacity beyond 2GB on the free account, but we could also think of other objectives less base as the ability to use different accounts for different purposes.
The idea is simple and is based on deceiving the successive copies of Dropbox changing the start of our user directory . Thus preferences are saved in an alternate folder for each extra copy you install. This preparation is finished by adding that pitcher custom startup items, so we do not have to worry about and everything works automagically.
To do this the quickest way is the terminal, and wiki Dropbox have ready a list of commands to execute. Having said that, although a little change to Linux and Mac that both commands are in that very mascaditos wiki, we must remember that this little hack requires some skill with the console: open and basically know how to write. Now we just need someone to tell us how to do it in Windows … any ideas? Will the create a shortcut?
Link | Official Wiki Dropbox
Microsoft on TED2010: Maps showing the world Bing
February 28, 2010
The TED2010 is over, but the great talks I heard the lucky attendees will go out gradually. One is given by Blaise Aguera , the architect behind Bing Maps , and view it worthwhile to discover what is working at Microsoft.
Most of the service and you said Yira the last month, but have shown an experiment that is absolutely awesome. To begin, have taken pictures at the doorstep of a market that is, with panoramic trade indoor . To achieve this have been one of those cameras on the hat of an employee. They have also integrated various services such as augmented reality, showing data points in the direction where there is a trade.
The spectacular is that not only have integrated images with Photosynth, but have also installed the infrastructure for stream video live so geopositioning . This in itself is fine, although it seems that has no practical application beyond the number of lawsuits for invasion of privacy that would rain on Microsoft.
But the future becomes more exciting if we think we can achieve this effect by simply using Android, iPhone or other mobile compass. Question of time and under video, not long.
Blaise Aguera is not the first time you visit these conferences, as taught for 3 years as coauthor of invention Photoshynth. This technology has evolved today in Bing Maps, making it a worthy competition from Google Maps at least in America. As a bonus, the retired Bill Gates has also gone through this TED2010, to talk about energy.
Video | Blaise Aguera shows Bing Maps
Video | Blaise Aguera shows Photosynth
Video | Bill Gates and energy
Virtual CloneDrive mount your ISO image in Windows 7
February 28, 2010
Virtual CloneDrive is one of the best free alternatives to DaemonTools the useful task of mount images ISO as if they were physical disks . With a limit of 15 virtual drives (8 at a time), supports files ISO , BIN and CCD to choose later from the file browser.
The program is very easy to use and works very well, that’s all that you ask this kind of application. Among the most useful options is to keep track of the latest images mounted and possibility of automount disks between sessions.
Is in 14 languages but not Spanish, and is compatible with all Windows since Windows 98. If you are clever you may have noticed that the sheep is the same CloneCD / DVD , and you’re successful because their creators are the same.
Download | Virtual CloneDrive
Lyrics Training: Practice your English while listening to songs
February 28, 2010
I bring a proposal for this Sunday both entertaining and educational, lest you sit wrong: Lyrics Training . This website is composed of clips of songs in different languages, with the letters embedded in it. The grace of the matter is that the letters do not appear directly, but you have to go filling in the gaps you . That is, first heard the song and then trying to guess the letter.
This system will surely sounds of college English classes, those where you put your teacher American Pie and I gave a copy to fill in gaps. We can choose between three difficulty levels, and we also have other languages, but for now unless there is a lot of videos in English.
It works great and is very fluid, so that for the video if you’re not going fast enough to give us time to writing. Once written it automatically continues the line two seconds behind, so you only have to worry about writing. You also have the option to automatically translate each line into another language, and learn exactly what it says.
Via | Lifehacker
Link | Lyrics Training
How to pass a job test
February 28, 2010
Sometimes personality test is an important filter between the candidates vying to job, consider some tips to not be who stays in the shale and get the job.
JustUnfollow eliminates those not massively follow you on Twitter
February 27, 2010
JustUnfollow is a mashup of Twitter, which does exactly what its name suggests, help us stop following other users, yes, not only those who follow us.
Their operation is simple, we need only our loguearnos Twitter user for shows the first 50 users who do not follow us . From there we can manually select who we want to stop tracking, clicking on the link unfollowed button to the right of each.
This tool is very useful when we use Twitter as a means to expand our network of professional contacts, and we continue to serve people who have no interest in contacting us. Although we must be very careful when deleting contacts, because when we click the link asks for no confirmation so it will be easy to let a user to follow by mistake.
Via | GeeksRoom
Official Site | Justunfollow
What happens in one day on the Internet?
February 27, 2010
It’s amazing when we think of the figures that move in one day on the Internet.There are hundreds of millions of Internet users every moment of our lives, it is almost impossible to imagine the volume of data and other parameters that it generates, in just one day.All this happens in the Internet every dayAre sent [...]
Breakdown of Google earnings
February 26, 2010
Where does the revenue come from Google? How Google generates its revenue? In the graph we can see how to distribute the profits earned by the search. The graph gives an accurate idea of how they earn their money. It is somewhat surprising that if Google AdSense for publishers eliminate barely notice a drop in income. Just to Keep in Mind:
From the graph we can draw some conclusions:
- The vast majority of revenues come from his own pages
- A small amount comes from Adsense
- Another slight amount of its other products, Google’s Search Appliance, Google Apps, etc.
Vampire Ink
February 25, 2010
There are days that I think one of my clients are Kiliminders employees. I get the feeling that Fluffy is missing some classes Wardog or that the poor have tired of his company and has a new job.
The other day the phone rings, the other side knows best computer of a public company that buys us the odd material:
– Hey, is that the printer is crap. It is again not working, we have had to disconnect, because they keep bugs out of the port and so could not work.
– What error port
– Well, the USB is not working properly, the printer does not print and no longer as mistakes go, I’ve switched off and disconnected.
– But do you have an error text
– No, but you do not, as I say that the printer does not work and gives a communication error every 10 minutes blocking the post of secretary and not let her work.
So we take the car and we will see the printer. The machine is an HP inkjet high-end business. It is a machine that can happen almost over by a truck and continue printing. Since shortly after buying it and had a similar problem was simply that someone had been fiddling with the settings to the printer and had given incorrect values.
We arrived at the offices of the company and plugged the printer. At the moment all the lights of lack of ink, come on. We connect the USB cable to your PC and displays a nice message in vivid colors and very clearly: “ink out of the following colors …. Please change the cartridges “and of course a link to the store to buy HP ink and another to a tutorial where I explain how to change cartridges.
Call our office:
– Sorry, the error message was that he lacked printer ink?
– I do not know, was like the last time that the port did not see the printer
– But I needed a new cartridge put
– That’s impossible, if we have not printed anything with it, if not for four months. We have not spent any ink.
– And if not, how is that out of ink?
– I do not know, I do not know computers, I just know that every 10 minutes showed the error of the printer and was very upset.
In summary the printer alone at night got underway and began to print until sold out loading of cartridges that last for more than 2,000 pages and nobody has seen any of those pages. It will be a vampire who comes at night and hits a good Chupeton to cartridges …
So I put new cartridges, and the error message disappears from the printer. And now to wait until the ink is re-finish, so again we say that the printer fails.
And it is this large firms (and if it is public and not tell you) where material is not nobody is desperate. Printers who come to the store and damaged a view and have started the supply roller shaft. And I wrote it, booted, do not say faulty. Because disassemble the printer and see that someone has been messing with before and given that pull the roller that has broke in three different places at once. And that’s not for use. Of course, the printer to no one and no one knows who has been, has been a technological suicide.
