Recently I started to podcast some of my mixes (see DJ Ribose Podcast if you are interested). A podcast is actually just an audio file. But, like for a CD, I wanted to display the tracklist while the podcast is playing. I have already seen this and asked myself how they achieve that. The answer is Chapters. Here you can find a tutorial for adding chapters to your podcast. Unfortunately this only seems doable with GarageBand.
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( 3.1 / 76 )The GNU version of cp (called gcp) has an interesting option: -l.
Instead of copying files it will link them using hard links.
This is very handy if you want to recursively copy a given directories structure without duplicating all the files. gcp can be installed via MacPorts:
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( 3 / 80 )There are a lot of dependency injection frameworks out there. What you may not know is that there is a very simple yet useful one built into the JDK. And it's type-safe.
JDK 6 introduces ServiceLoader. ServiceLoader loads things based on flat files in the directory META-INF/services from the Java classpath.
Without going down the OSGi rabbit hole this is a simple solution which probably provides 90% of what people currently want. The API has been around since JDK 1.3 but mostly by internal components, JDK 6 promotes the API and makes it extremely easy to use with a minimal set of requirements.
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( 3 / 97 )I recently bought an external hard drive. I wanted it being accessible from Windows and Mac OS X. The out-of-the-box possibility would have been to format my external disk as FAT32. I felt quite reluctant to do so and looked for a possibility to access it using NTFS.
Fortunately Amit Singh, a Google employee, releases a implementation called MacFUSE which makes possible to use any FUSE (File-system in USErspace) file systems in Mac. And the most useful FUSE is the NTFS-3G Read/Write Driver, which ables system to load NTFS with read and write capability.
Works like a charm.
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( 3.1 / 103 )- Ensure that dvdrtools is installed (it includes growisofs tool). With MacPorts installed on your machine this is just as easy as running sudo port install dvdrtools.
- Rip the DVD using MacTheRipper. It keeps the original format and removes any DVD protection.
- growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/rdisk1 -dvd-video -V <your_dvd_title> <directory>. Note that <directory> is not copied to the DVD, only its content.
If you have Path Finder installed, you do not need growisofs. After having selected the directories (inclusive!) you want to have, just click the Burn icon, choose the Hybrid format.
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