Hi, I’m Andreas. I make screencasts. This is my written version of Mac OS X Screencasts (MOSX).
MOSX is mainly about tutorials and reviews of OS X and iOS software in English and German. MOSX is also on Twitter. And I am, too.
My personal iPhone and iPad homescreens can be found here.
Coal Energy Drink
This is a Keyboard Maestro macro which gives you a prompt for every file you have selected in Finder and optionally allows you to rename the file with a regular expression.
It re-uses the last regular expression so you can apply it to more files.
Slightly modified you can rename a bunch of files at once.
Usage
The prompt gives you two text fields.
One for the new filename (excluding the extension) and one for the optional Regular Expression. If the Regular Expression field is empty, no RegEx replacement takes place.
This macros asks for all files one by one.
Download
Nice one via TinyApps.
MiniXP is a minimal installation of Windows XP that can easily be installed on a Mac with Boot Camp.
“This is a minimal XP install - the core files are approximately 23 MB. If all included project scripts are enabled, the build size is approximately 40 MB.”
Open source console emulator for OS X leveraging Cocoa technology at its best. Go check it out.
vidir allows editing of the contents of a directory in a text editor.
A slightly eccentric way to remove or rename files, admittedly, but I quite like it.
I’m personally not a fan of automation, but if you’re down for this kind of stuff this is an interesting read.
Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness
We’ve got to cut the extraneous out of our lives, and we’ve got to learn to stem the inflow. We need to think before we buy. Ask ourselves, ‘Is that really going to make me happier? Truly?’
(via Graham Hill: Less stuff, more happiness | Video on TED.com)
An interesting problem someone had recently on Audio Video Productions on Stack Exchange. He/she needed a quick way to convert videos using a command line program, i.e. FFmpeg.
If you don’t want to mess with the (endless) command line options FFmpeg provideos, the solution is pretty simple. Just use one of the provided presets and FFmpeg will figure out the rest for you.
Example:
ffmpeg -i highres.avi -vpre medium lowerresforceh264vpremedium.avi
Resources:
For my screencasts I typlically need to “measure windows” so I know if a certain arrangement of the windows of an app fit into the frame I’m recording. I would normally use xScope, but… you know… If Keyboard Maestro can do what I need, why not?
The first macro basically measure the front window’s size and displays the size as Growl message.
The second one first takes the size of the frontmost window and displays its size in the “Prompt User for Input” action.
UPDATE: I issued a minor update for this macro. The input is now split into two text fields, makes this easier to use.
Download
https://www.box.com/s/ce52cdbd3186d4cb7233
Note: Both macros are included in the download.
Screenshots
Measure Window
Set Window Size
