Simply Random

Normally, I use Photoshop to resize my photos because along with resizing photos I also need to apply some filters. A few days ago one of my friends asked me was there any application on Mac that lets him resize a bunch of photos in one go. He also mentioned that he didn’t wanna apply any filters at all and opening Photoshop takes time (it’s true).

Then I figured out that properly we could do that in Automator (a built-in application for automating repetitive tasks). I had never used Automator before but it’s really easy to use, everything is done by drag and drop. After a minute or so, I came up with a small app that does the job perfectly.

If you need to do that task over and over again, you might wanna check this app out. You can download it here ResizePhotos (946). I don’t need to explain how it works because every step in the app is quite explanatory. Enjoy!

The period that your machine has been in operation

I stumbled on an interesting blog post yesterday. The author wrote about various information which was included in his blog footer. There were 4 pieces of information and I found one of those really interesting – where he uses an Applescript to upload the uptime of his computer (Macbook) and it is updated periodically. Read the rest of this entry →

I just like to share this productivity tip for people who use Mac platform. While I was chatting to Kenno yesterday, he asked me what and how many ebooks I had. I have more than 50 books and if I had to type all the titles of the books or copy&paste the titles one by one it would take me about 5 minutes or so. I just had a feeling that it could be done in one go. So, what I did was selecting all the ebook files and then pasted in a text editor and all filenames were listed just like I thought. I also tried it on Windows Vista and hoped it would work the same way but, unfortunately, it didn’t.

I’ve continuously followed the live update of Macworld 2008 on ArsTechnica. There are quite a few new stuffs have been announced but the new product that really gets my attention so far is the new world’s thinnest notebook, MacBook Air. It is super sexy. Read about it more on Apple website.

After all, I am quite disappointed. Even though MacBook is cool, it is not my type of machine. I was badly expecting a new successor of MacBook Pro.

Watch Keynote Address.

Leopard is coming out in just 6 hours time (in New Zealand). I’ve compiled a list of the features that I like from 300+ features of Leopard and also a list of features that I want to see. First, I start off with the list of the things I want to see in Leopard:

• MySQL
• Writable FTP mount
• Tabbed Finder
• New Finder visual effects

And here are the features sported with Leopard that I like: Read the rest of this entry →