Fixing playback delay in iTunes on Mac OS X
Recently I noticed that it was taking ages for iTunes to start playback of any audio file (up to 3 seconds). I found a solution for my problem in the Apple Support Communities: One just has to disable the “Multiple Speakers” feature of iTunes when not streaming to any AirPort speakers, because iTunes seems to [...]
Cygwin + VMware: Unable to resolve host address
When working with Cygwin inside VMware, I had the weird problem of not being able to download stuff using wget or cloning repositories with git because I got the following or similar error messages: Resolving google.de (google.de)… failed: Non-recoverable failure in name resolution. wget: unable to resolve host address `google.de’ I really don’t know what [...]
Editing GitHub Wikis locally with the Gollum Gem
You can easily edit your GitHub hosted wikis by cloning them to your local machines ( yes, the GitHub Wikis are also backed by Git ) and using your favorite text editor. Alternatively, GitHub open-sourced their Wiki software named Gollum which you can install as a Ruby Gem: $ gem install gollum This however will [...]
Terminal App Theme / Colors on Mac OS X
I spent the last hour on trying to figure out how to get decent coloring into the Terminal.app on Mac OS X (because iTerm has some weird bug with Displaying Umlauts and the like), and I finally got it to work following these steps: Install SIMBL. Install the TerminalColors.bundle for Mac OS X 10.6 or [...]
LaTeXiT – Easy LaTeX Formula Generation
Some days ago I found a nice Mac OS X application called “LaTeXiT”, which makes LaTeX formula generation really easy. If you are already working in a LaTeX environment you’ve got no problem anyway, but what if you’d like to use your LaTeX formulas in Pages (or Word), Keynote, etc… Either you go with the [...]