Archive for November, 2007

Workflow: Print via SSH

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Since I’ve already posted one script today, here’s another for good measure. This Automator workflow prints PDFs to a remote printer via ssh. I use it to print to the department printserver without using the VPN. Click here to download the workflow. To install this workflow: Edit the script to set your username, SSH hostname, [...]

Folder Action: SCP folder contents

Friday, November 30th, 2007

My buddy Scott is beginning a comparison of Lightroom vs. Aperture (maybe he’ll blog about the results). It turns out that it’s really easy to get Lightroom to upload a web gallery to an FTP server. On the other hand Aperture only has one-click uploading to .Mac; there are plug-ins that allow exporting images directly [...]

New Addictions

Monday, November 26th, 2007

So part of what helped keep me occupied this weekend (other than my friend Donald’s wedding) was Chain Factor. Compared to DTD, it’s more of a traditional puzzle game, but no less addictive. My current top score is: 191,449 in Basic mode. Since there’s no groups standings on the Chain Factor site, feel free to [...]

Buy Nothing Day

Monday, November 26th, 2007