I’ve been having a bit of trouble adding some movies to my iTunes library this evening - in that I’d have to convert a movie to a .mov file in order to import it at all.

A few google searches away and I’d found the answer to all my problems. If you have the Apple development tools installed (and are obviously on a Mac), you can simply change the file meta-data of the movies via the terminal in order to allow you to import them. It’s very simple to do:
SetFile -t "MooV" movie.avi

Via: AVI to iTunes on MacRumors Forums

I did, however, have to change the iTunes settings so that it didn’t take it’s own copy of the files when importing them. I have a separate Movies folder for a reason thank-you-very-much iTunes.
- Chris

As per my previous post, I’m getting a new machine. This is due however, to some unfortunate news: my PowerBook is dead!

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I’ve recently ordered a new Mac, a Mac Pro to be precise. It is currently en route to my gleeful embrace from Apple.
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Well it had to happen some time, and eventually it has. Apple have released initial details at their Keynote of the new iPhone which will be a combination of the video/photo iPod and a mobile phone. (more…)

The course I’m doing at University involves quite a lot of work writing documents, usually at least 2 a week, which I prefer to do using LaTeX. The problem being that although LaTeX produces nice documents, it’s a bit of a pain to write in as most of the stuff has to be done by hand via a text editor. Not anymore!

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I travel into and back from University every day and am thus constantly changing the networking settings on my PowerBook due to the different networks I’m using at home, university (VPN stylee) and having to switch wireless networking off for the train journeys (saving battery).

What I would like is some sort of system wide change dependant upon the network location I’m in.
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Nothing much has been happening of late, other than working. The job at the University is going well and I have managed to bring the application up to a standard where we can start running the evaluations, they’ll probably start next week.

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GrabPhotos is a Mac OS X (10.4+) automator workflow which will allow you to download all the images displayed on a Safari page, or all the images linked from a Safari page, directly to your desktop.

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PhotoArchive is a Mac OS X (10.4+) automator workflow which will allow you to select a group of photos and have them archived to your desktop as photos.zip

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