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Entries categorised as 'Computing'

PNG Crushing

PNGCrush is a little tool that optimises PNG files by ‘reducing the size of the IDAT datastream’, ‘removing unwanted ancillary chunks’, ‘adding gAMA chunks’, etc. which are obviously just words and acronyms made up by the author so he can pick up chicks at dinner parties. Ultimately, it makes PNG files smaller. Download it here [...]

Bullet Hell

Recently downloaded Ikaruga, a 2D, top-down shooter for XBox. I remember playing it on a friend’s Dreamcast years ago and being mind-boggled by the whole experience. It’s a simple concept (all enemy ships are either white or black, you can swap between the two colors, absorbing same colour bullets, doing more damage against opposing colour [...]

Auto Mounting Samba Shares in Leopard

Need a quick way to mount samba shares on login without having to write a bash script or fiddle about in fstab? In the Finder, go to Go -> Connect to Server… (Cmd + k). Type in the share loaction, and click the ‘+’ (saving it to your favourites). Now go to ~/Library/Favourites; your shares [...]

Organizing the Applications folder in Leopard

Anyone have any ideas about this? I don’t want to move any apps around (into subfolders, etc.), cos I don’t know how that will screw up the OS. I’m bunging them all in hickledy-pickledy at the moment, which is cool as I’m using Quicksilver to run apps, but at the back of my anally-tidy programming [...]