I don’t know what they did to Firefox …but at least for me it got terrible slow over time. I am wondering whether this has to do with the new versions or a screwed up profile. Anyway I switched to Safari quite a while ago and am pretty happy with it. Unfortunately there are some websites that just don’t work with Safari. So I’ve always keep Firefox as a backup. Lately I also gave Camino a try. It’s supposed to be the same rendering engine as Firefox …not too bad.
That was quick! The maven2 minijar plugin is already online in the Mojo sandbox! As it’s not released yet you have to add the repository to you pom for now.
<repositories>
<repository>
<id>Maven Snapshots</id>
<url>http://snapshots.maven.codehaus.org/maven2/</url>
<snapshots>
<enabled>true</enabled>
</snapshots>
<releases>
<enabled>false</enabled>
</releases>
</repository>
</repositories>
Run ‘mvn minijar:minijar’ to see how many bytes you can save on your distributions.
Amazing! …at least the first experience was really impressive. Just run this application, and then play a song (on your stereo). It will record the input and tell you what song it is!! Worked straight away for all the more popular songs. Maybe more people need to provide their song fingerprints to get better results also for less popular music. Too bad it requires a proper recorded song so “la la lllaaa dum die dum” is not good enough :-) Nice!
To be honest I am only using Apple’s mail.app because of the integration with the Addressbook. Other than that it just stinks compared to Thunderbird. Recently I came across this patch and I am tempted to give building Thunderbird myself a try. Please vote for the patch!
Just before I went to Costa Rica I’ve got myself a GPS receiver. It was tough call as Garmin (one of the major vendors in this area) just completely ignores the existence of OSX users. (How stupid! IMO Apple users are the once that go and buy all these expensive geek toys^^^^tools) …but again it’s open source to the rescue. The author of the excellent program GPSBabel helped me to get it working. Just upgrade to the latest firmware and you can even use the USB interface to download your trips, waypoints etc. Only thing that GPSMAP60 user might be missing under OSX is the map up- and download!
gpsbabel -w -i garmin -f usb: -o gpx -F waypoint.gpx
Why do I need a GPS receiver? Well, I am using GPSPhotoLinker to add geo information to my pictures. Hopefully there will be some cameras with GPS receiver in the near future …as this is still way too complicated as it should be. At least the Nikon d200 already has an input for GPS receivers.
Update: as if they were listening ;-) Thanks for Marcus pointing me on that one.