NoseDial for iPhone does just what the name suggests — lets you dial your iPhone with your nose. Sound strange? What else do you do when it’s freezing outside and you need to make a couple of calls on your iPhone? You first have to remove your gloves and risk those cold temperatures, unless of course you have a special pair of gloves that work with capacitive touch screens.
För 10 minuter sedan:
isak> Kan jag vattna julgranen?
pappa> jag ska bara äta klart, så kan vi vattna
isak> ok!
För 8 minuter sedan:
*glugg, glugg, glugg, glugg, glugg*
pappa> Isak, vad gör du?
isak> Vattnar granen!
*spring, spring*
isak> kom och kolla!
Pappa och mamma ser granen i vardagsrummet med en stor pöl med vatten på golvet. Hastigt, men lugnt drar pappa ut kontakten till de ljusen i granen och förklarar hur man ska vattna granen och att man ska göra det tillsammans med mamma eller pappa.
För 3 minuter sedan:
isak> pappa, hjälp.
Pappa går till vardagsrummet och möter en Isak med ett finger inklämt i ett hål som blivit när han klämt sönder en julgranskula i plast. Pappa förklarar att det inte är bra att göra så för att man kan sköra sig på de vassa kanterna.
… fortsättning följer.
Så här ska Google Reader se ut! Mycket bra. Finns som Safari och Chrome extensions.
I want to present Mac Desktop Generator, the new app for Mac OS X and Last.fm users.
With this application, You can generate sleek and stylish (yeah, sure 😉 wallpaper for Your Mac made from covers of your favorite albums!
For all you last.fm Mac users (there’s a link to a windows equivalent too)
For months, I’ve been trying to figure out why Google Maps’s city labels seem so much more readable than the labels on other mapping sites.
To me, Google’s labels seem to “pop” much more than the other sites’ labels. Major cities also seem to stand out much more. [1] And whenever you’re quickly scanning the maps, the label you’re searching for seems to stand out just a little sooner on Google’s maps.
Bra analys av läsbarheten hos tre olika karttjänster.
Hallelujah! OS X Can Reduce PDF File Size!
Posted on Oct 23, 2008 by Stephen
One feature of OS X that really surprised me was it’s amazing ability to handle PDF files. Since switching to mac earlier this year, I’ve become a PDF monster – OS X allowed me to go completely paperless for most business functions, including expense reports. I’ve started using the “Save as PDF” function constantly, organizing receipts and online statements for later reference, which Spotlight makes even easier.
But one thing bugged me. I use an HP Photosmart C6180 all-in-one scanner/printer/fax/copier, and while it works well, its scans are huge. I mean massive. A single-page color PDF scan of a recent magazine article I wrote became a 6.1 MB PDF file!
Then I noticed the “Reduce File Size” Quartz filter in the “Save As” dialog box. “Cool” I thought, “OS X will automatically reduce the file size for me!” Not so fast, though – although this filter did reduce the file size to just 36 KB, it also made the text unreadable! I needed a better solution…
This post is part of my series focused on Apple OS X tips and tricks.
Look what the generic “Reduce File Size” Quartz filter in OS X did to my document – it may have reduced the size from 6.1 MB to 36 KB, but it’s unreadable!
So I soldiered on, trying to tweak the scanner’s settings to produce smaller files. But they were still multi-megabyte files. I was stumped.
But the other day, I decided to try again to find a solution. And hallelujah! A solution I have found!
It turns out that you can set up your own custom Quartz filters in OS X – it’s just not obvious how to do it. Buried in the Color Sync utility is a tab called Filters.
Here, I discovered why the default “Reduce” filter looked so bad. My scans were in TIFF format, which looks great but is basically uncompressed. When you apply the “Reduce” filter, it converted any images it found to JPEG format, which dramatically reduced the image size. But it also scaled the images down to a miniscule 512×128 pixels! This is fine for the average inline illustration but terrible for a full-page image like a scanned document!
So, following the directions I found at hoboes.com, I created my own filter. Mine is exactly the same as the generic Reduce filter in that it converts images to medium-compressed JPEG, but I skip the image re-sampling so it keeps its native resolution. The result is a Quartz filter that reduces the size of scanned images but leaves them looking good enough to read or print. See the results below for yourself!
By skipping the image scaling I was able to reduce the 6.1 MB file to 468 KB while maintaining readability
Then I got thinking – what if I turned the JPEG quality down to minimum? The results still looked pretty good – my 6.1 MB file was now 196 KB and looked just about as good as the original for casual viewing.
So I’m happy. I can again scan and email smaller files. I just wish Quartz supported an open format like PNG! And I wish the HP printer wouldn’t constantly disappear from both OS X and Vista, but that’s another story for another day.
Update: More info on creating a Quartz filter and formatting documents for the iPhone.
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Tags: Apple, HP, JPEG, JPG, OS X, PDF, Preview, Quartz, scan, scanner, TIFF
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