• Adobe just bought Macromedia for $3.4billion wow!
  tags: adobe business macromedia news +
• A Cappella Nintendo Medley
  tags: acappella maris medly music nintendo tetris zelda +
• Sony unveils network audio system for iTunes Sony’s network ‘boombox’, works with iTunes, WMA and nearly everything else (no mention of OGG)
  tags: itunes mp3 music sony wma +

Plug it in: Third-Party Filters for Final Cut Pro

Featuring:

• Joe Maller of Joe’s Filters
• Graham Nattress of Nattress Filters
• Klaus Eiperle of CGM Effects

This will be the first time we’ve all been together and should be quite a session. Topics will include plugins, workflows, FXScript (very briefly), ideas for future effects and where plugins are going in FCP.

I’ll be in Las Vegas from Tuesday morning through the FCPUG meeting Wednesday night.

• Mac Serial Number Decoder Enter your Mac’s serial number and find out where and when it was made, model number and more.
  tags: mac +
• Steve Wozniak on creating the Apple I and II “So we just created everything out of nothing. No knowledge of how it’s done or anything.”
  tags: apple efficiency engineering woz wozniak +
• Something Awful: How to deal with baseless legal threats on the Internet three pages
  tags: funny lawyers wrestling +

• Acid Test for Web Standards Every browser I tried currently fails.
  tags: browser css html webdev webstandards +
• How to Participate – The Genographic Project I’m surprised that I’m kind of freaked out by this.
  tags: dna geneology mapping nationalgeographic +

Flickr’s down for an upgrade, and I didn’t build an error handler into the scraped together PHP script for parsing my Flickr feed. To do list item 34,242…

That’s quite a mess…

• Yessss! Idaho state legislature passes resolution commending Napolean Dynamite WHEREAS, any members of the House of Representatives or the Senate of the Legislature of the State of Idaho who choose to vote “Nay” on this concurrent resolution are “FREAKIN’ IDIOTS!” and run the risk of having the “Worst Day of Their Lives!”
  tags: idaho napoleandynamite +

For whatever reason my Finder sometimes takes forever to calculate the size of the Trash. That doesn’t include the clicks of opening a Trash window, selecting all, then getting info. Here’s a script which is much faster: Faster Trash Size (click to open in Script Editor)

Nothing special, just a quick AppleScript wrapper for this simple terminal command: du -h ~/.Trash | tail -rn1 | awk '{print "Size of Trash is " $1}'

It’s three quick commands:

• du -h ~/.Trash
  Disk Usage, the “-h” flag reports sizes in human-readable values, the directory to report is ~/.Trash, which is the current user’s Trash folder. This dumps a size report for every item in ~/.Trash followed by a total at the bottom. That output is then piped out to tail:
• tail -rn1
  Tail reads the end of files or the standard input, in this case the output of du. The “-r” flag reverses the output, then “-n1” prints one line. The output of this has only one line which looks like 2.9G /Users/joe/.Trash. That gets sent to awk for some simple formatting:
• awk '{print "Size of Trash is " $1}'
  Awk is an amazing tool that I’ve only recently scratched the surface of. This particular command is a really just a simple echo statement which uses Awk’s column splitting ability to quickly split the output of du and tail. “$1” refers to the first column of the output, split on white space by default. I added a descriptive string to Awk’s print command to make the output a little more meaningful and prettier.