I’ve been pretty happy with my previous Service Apple script to dial a specific conference call bridge, but as I started having to use more it got too annoying to add a script per specific numbers. Now I’ve updated the script to be able to use directly from LaunchBar (or other launchers) as the dial [...]
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August 27, 2010
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Dial numbers (incl. conference bridges) with Skype via Launch Bar, Quick Silver or others
By Max in Work at JBoss
July 31, 2010
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Converting thousands of WMA files to MP3
By Max in JavaI’ve been using a Mac Mini for a while now to run my media center but recently I discovered that I actually had more than 8.000 songs in WMA format that iTunes silently ignores when importing. This blog is about how I managed to get that converted without too much fuzz. UI Conversion tools There [...]
July 11, 2010
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Calling conference bridge numbers with Skype
By Max in Work at JBossI like Skype, but one of the features it has always lacked is a way to directly call into conference call bridges. With a little help from AppleScript I finally managed to make that happen: on run {input, parameters} set phone_number to “+1……” set dtmf to “1234567894#,*1234#” tell application “Skype” set active_call to send command [...]
Tags: applescript, skype
January 30, 2010
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Migrating from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress
By Max in JavaI migrated this blog from from Serendipity (s9y) to WordPress. It turned out to be pretty simple to import s9y posts to WordPress with the s9y importer, but making sure the old links to posts and feeds turned out to be a bit trickier. I found a blog post that outlined how to use .htaccess to solve [...]
May 24, 2008
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Rant about international airports, especially Geneva
By Max in Work at JBossThe last 3-4 years I’ve been travelling alot to and from Switzerland and especially Geneva Airport. I normally always take a trolley for my suitcase and carry on luggage since I realized that it makes my long flights much smoother not having strained my back or feet with moving around bulky and semi-heavy luggage (and [...]
January 16, 2008
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This category is moving to in.relation.to
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioIn the future i’ll put my blogs about JBoss Tools/Developer Studio and related at in.relation.to. First entry is already there, an updated version of “Making Eclipse look good under Linux”, see it here.
November 29, 2007
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JBoss Tools & Developer Studio at JavaPolis
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioJavaPolis is getting near and this year I’ll finally have time to go to it – yay! If you want to hear about JBoss Tools and Developer Studio (or just meet up and try out the belgium beer) then come meet me in the JBoss/Red Hat booth or catch me listening in on some of [...]
November 15, 2007
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Jing – the best tool for reporting bugs for any UI!
By Max in JavaJing is a tool for grabbing screenshots and screencasts on Windows and Mac. That does not sound so new and exiting until you actually try and use Jing. They made it so easy to do the screenshot and screencasts that everybody can do it without spending any more time than it takes to actually do [...]
November 14, 2007
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Red Hat Developer Studio Candidate Release
By Max in JBoss Tools and devstudioThe candidate release of Red Hat Developer Studio is now available over at Red Hat. The major news in this release is Seam 2 support together with over 300+ fixes and enhancements. You can read more about those in the New and noteworthy pages. Below is a small video, demonstrating the quick and easy setup [...]
November 8, 2007
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Making Eclipse look good on Linux
By Max in JavaI have been bothered a long time by the “clumsy” look that Eclipse has on my Fedora box compared to how it looks on Windows and Mac. Eclipse 3.3 running on Windows XP Eclipse 3.3 running on Fedora 6 (but looks very similar on other distros) Notice that the font size is bigger ( 10 [...]