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In the course of analyzing Apple’s Weather Dashboard Widget, I found some interesting details about what JavaScript function and URL calls the widget makes and where it retrieves it’s data from. This post contains the URLs called, redirects and example input and output results.
Returns only existing, direct links to static Google’s Earth View (Pretty Earth) images. Link to embed the executed result: https://cdn.rawgit.com/oliveratgithub/eb4a33db70b258120eac/raw/39354fd68c90d6c5ed7cd98fe96f4b96735dad3a/prettyearthimageurl.html Example result: https://www.gstatic.com/prettyearth/assets/full/1222.jpg Code: Sources: GitHub – adriancooney/prettyearth-wallpapers Google Earth View
Because I just couldn’t find ANYTHING close to this on the interwebz, I had to make my own simple AppleScript to easily batch rename multiple files sequentially.
A VBA macro for Microsoft Word (Mac + Windows) to Mail Merge each record into separate documents. Execute the following VBA Macro on your Office Word Mail Merge template to have Word generate & save every record into a single file.
Here’s a quick extract of all the Countries in Apple’s itunesconnect.com to which developer’s can publish their iOS apps to (as of December 25, 2012):
Recently I struggled a little with un-publishing my public Wordpress Blog to a local MAMP environment, for local testing purposes, before I apply big changes (as it should be). There are actually some minor things to consider, so you can properly get your Wordpress installation running locally.
I wanted to have an AppleScript application, that takes all files from a specific Source-Folder and moves them to a user defined Target-Folder.
When you have installed MAMP (Mac Apache, MySQL, PHP) on your Mac, you may want to connect to it’s MySQL Server using the OS X Terminal.app. I describe here, how this can be achieved.
I am working on Mac OS 10.5.6 Leopard. Today I recognized, that every 10 seconds Apache forced the following error messages to appear in my console.log: org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80 org.apache.httpd[10664] (13)Permission denied: make_sock:… Continue reading » “OS X: org.apache.httpd (13)Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80”