Category Archives: Mac

Efficient Exception Debugging with Xcode 4

Posted on April 21, 2011 by joachim

When dealing with Objective-C exceptions while developing Cocoa applications, you might not know where the error happened. Calling -[NSMutableDictionary setObject:forKey:] with an nil object will output an error message in the console (*** -[NSCFDictionary setObject:forKey:]: attempt to insert nil value (key: … Continue reading →

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SiteCapture v1.2.1 Released

Posted on July 3, 2010 by joachim

I just released SiteCapture v1.2.1 which has following changes: 64bit support on Intel Macs Feature to reveal the destination folder in the Finder Enhanced image quality for PDF thumbnails SiteCapture now requires Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. Grab it at … Continue reading →

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Introducing WebKitTool

Posted on June 23, 2010 by joachim

WebKitTool is a simple command line tool using Apple’s WebKit framework for converting web pages to PDF- or image files. When creating PDFs, you can either create one page containing the whole web page or multiple pages, landscape or portrait. Examples … Continue reading →

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Introducing PDFKitTool

Posted on January 24, 2010 by joachim

PDFKitTool is a simple command line interface to Apple’s PDF Kit framework. With it, you can manipulate PDF documents. It can combine several documents into one or burst multipage documents into multiple single-paged documents. Examples Combining multiple documents and storing … Continue reading →

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Size Comparison: new 27″ iMac vs old 24″ iMac

Posted on October 21, 2009 by joachim

It’s intresting to see that the new 27″ iMac is nearly as tall as the old 24″ model.

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SiteCapture 1.2 Released

Posted on June 7, 2009 by joachim

I just released SiteCapture v1.2 and made it Freeware! New features include: Full-size captures now contain the full height of a page. When multiple URLs only differ in their query string, the file names of the images won’t collide anymore. … Continue reading →

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SiteCapture 1.1 Released

Posted on September 22, 2008 by joachim

I just released SiteCapture v1.1 with following enhancements: Added the ability to specify a delay for pages which have a build animation (like many Flash-based sites). The Automator Action will no be listed under the category “Internet”. White spaces before … Continue reading →

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Make /opt invisible

Posted on April 24, 2008 by joachim

Say you installed MacPorts on Mac OS X Leopard (client) and now there is a new folder called “opt” in the root level of the startup disk. To make it invisible in the Finder (but not in Terminal), enter the … Continue reading →

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Copying Tables from Safari to Numbers

Posted on December 20, 2007 by joachim

Recently I wanted to copy parts of an HTML table from Safari to Numbers. Instead of getting an approximate copy where the HTML cells match the ones in Numbers, I got a list of all table cells in one column. … Continue reading →

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SiteCapture 1.0.2 Released

Posted on September 18, 2007 by joachim

Just a quick post to let everyone know that SiteCapture 1.0.2 was released yesterday. It is a minor release with following changes: Added the ability to edit an address of the ‘Own list’ by double-clicking the address row. Changed the … Continue reading →

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