Comments for Brett Hutley's Blog

Comment on How to get Maplin’s USB Microscope working on a Mac by phil

phil — Sun, 05 May 2013 07:40:56 +0000

Hi, Yeah the stand is a bit loose, i just pulled the halves apart and well sanded the space between them and it clamps up good. Photo booth worked in reverse, so is so useless for this purpose, I have Macam as the generic driver for my webcams but a program called Cam Twist is working well, as is MicroCapture 2M (1.0) dunno if it’s because of Macam or not but it works, right side up and all.

Comment on The Technological Unemployment Problem by Khannea Suntzu

Khannea Suntzu — Sat, 04 May 2013 16:04:37 +0000

Simplified and condensed analysis. Now try and make your views applicable to the millions laid off in the fast food industries. Quick let’s all augment these people so they’ll become “productive” again.

I am not holding my breath. This will end very badly.

Comment on Restarting Fitbit on the Mac by Ben

Ben — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:45:12 +0000

Thanks for this! Was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what was wrong since the FitBit software has no GUI. Simple solution is usually the best.

I did try changing the launchd settings for fitbitd using Lingon, enabling the always-keep-this-running option. We’ll see if that offers a more permanent fix. So far so good, but it’s only been a few hours.

Comment on Opening a header file in Emacs by Joonhwan

Joonhwan — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:19:56 +0000

I have an idea that can improve your ones.

please refer following snippet

;; *.h objc file criteria
;; – if there are a pair of *.h/*.m
;; – if the directory contains xcodeproj
;; – if the directory contains xib
(defun my/h-file-looks-like-objc()
;; (message (concat “file path : ” (buffer-file-name)))
(let* ((file-path (buffer-file-name))
(file-ext (or (and (stringp file-path) (downcase (file-name-extension file-path)))
“”))
)
(and (string= file-ext “h”)
(or (file-exists-p (concat (file-name-sans-extension file-path) “.m”))
(directory-files (file-name-directory file-path) t (regexp-opt ‘(“\.xib” “\.xcodeproj”)))))
)
)
(add-to-list ‘magic-mode-alist ‘(my/h-file-looks-like-objc . objc-mode))
(add-to-list ‘auto-mode-alist ‘(“\\.\$m\$?$” . objc-mode) nil)

Comment on Hacking the EZ430 Chronos Watch on the Mac by Lukas

Lukas — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 16:50:55 +0000

Hi really nice stuff!!! working great on mountain lion (xdotool doesn’t… and i had to change the comport to usbmodemfa131) Thanks and keep up the good work!!!

Comment on Restarting Fitbit on the Mac by Seth

Seth — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:37:01 +0000

Bless you. I should’ve searched for this answer months ago.

Worked like a charm!

Comment on Getting iTunes to recognise tracks as belonging to one Album by Inaki

Inaki — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 15:20:04 +0000

Thank you, this was very helpful and informative!
Godspeed to you kind Sir

Comment on Hacking the EZ430 Chronos Watch on the Mac by Christopher Konopka

Christopher Konopka — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:05:48 +0000

Howdy! Thank you for posting your research on this watch, I am very grateful for your work. I was a little confused though and was wondering if you could possibly write the step by step process you took to hack the watch? You were clear above but I am a novice in the programming world and it was rather challenging for me.

Comment on My Evolving Media Setup by Dennis

Dennis — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 17:48:58 +0000

God forbid your internet connection breaks down for an extended period. Of course, if it does, you can always come round to mine

Comment on Hacking the EZ430 Chronos Watch on the Mac by brett

brett — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 15:46:09 +0000

The Chronos Control Center code is written in TCL/TK. You should be able to run it on your Air without too much trouble. You need to make sure that TCL/TK is installed. I’ve got a link to my Github project which has my modified Chronos Control Center which should work fine on an Air.