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Taking photos thru console

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ISight I always wondered, how about taking photos throught console? I mean, without using PhotoBooth. Making bash scripts that use the built-in camera would be awesome! One easy way is installing isightcapture .   This is how you can use it $ ./isightcapture image.jpg     will output a 640x480 image in JPEG format $ ./isightcapture -w 320 -h 240 -t png image.png     will output a scaled 320x240 image in PNG format Note: S eems the project has been discontinued.

Copy files with cp (fancy way)

Copy files from dir A to dir B. (cause i always forget wh ich are the proper flags...) cp -Rpnv "Dir_A" "Dir_b" n : Do not overwrite an existing file (overides -f flag). p : Preserves attributes for each source file. R : Files are copied recursively. v : Show files while copying them.

Change Mac Os X default player

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Everytime you open an media file, it will opens with Itunes or Quicktime Player. What if i want to be open always with a third party app? (Like Vlc for example). Of course you can always make right clic , " Open With " and select the desire player...thats one way. BUT, you can set Vlc as default player for CERTAINS filetypes like this way. Right clic onto a avi file.  Select " Get info " option. Go to " Open with " tab and select the media player you want. Then clic " Change All... " button (That will associate avi file types with Vlc). Thats all! Note:This works for avi files, dunno with others filetypes.

Stop autorefresh (dirty way)

I hate the kind of webpages that they autorefresh while reading them. This solution works only for firefox. (IE: suck it :P) Go to about:config . Set " accessibility.blockautorefresh " to true .

Now Listening...

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Billy Idol Dancin' with myself

Jango - Free Music Played Online

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Jango is a free social music service that lets you create your own custom radio stations and share them with friends and others who like what you like. Just type in what you want to hear - and your station will play the music you want along with similar favorites of other Jango users who share your taste. You can customize your stations further by adding more artists and rating songs. You can also tune in to any other station playing on Jango. As you listen, your player will show other people listening to the same artist. You can "tune in" to any song they're listening to, message each other or share your stations with others. Or just go to any Artist Page to see all songs by that artist you can tune in to at any given time!

DateLine

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DateLine is a small, simple app which displays a linear calendar on your desktop in a transparent window. The background and text colors are customizable with support for transparency.