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 [...]
Coding-Journal.com
Hey there folks. This blog has gone from being a mere reference for myself to at least having a small number of visits every day :) But from now on I will be putting my work into a new blog project, Coding Journal, which will cover every coding-related topic we, that is my friends Marian, [...]
Cygwin: Running an sshd on Windows 7
Currently I am writing a build script for a UNIX application which needs to be built for Windows using the Cygwin environment. I quickly got tired of working inside the default Cygwin window (which doesn’t even have proper copy & paste), so I installed a SSH server to work on the Cygwin environment remotely: First [...]
Chrom(e|ium) without the “Open frame in new tab” feature
Apparently the Chrome development team is becoming as ignorant as the Internet Explorer development team has been for some time now. Seems to run in the family of browser developers or something, I don’t know. Anyway, as of Chrome v10, they’ve removed the “Right-click -> Open frame in new tab feature”, which I constantly used [...]
Textmate – Automatically removing trailing whitespaces
Finally found an easy solution to automatically remove trailing whitespaces when saving a file in Textmate. Addition: This approach seems to have its downsides though. Every time you save, Textmate will re-render the syntax highlighting of the entire file, and center the viewport on the cursor, which can be annoying sometimes. Guess I really have [...]
Playing EVE Online through SSH tunnel (Mac OS X)
To get you started, you first need an SSH tunnel. Establishing one is actually quite easy, but it only works if you have access to any server supporting SSH connections and if the SSH port is not also blocked. To establish an SSH tunnel open the terminal and type in the following: ssh «username»@«hostname» -L [...]