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Sept. 9th, 2008 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 4 comments
When you really start digging into Mac OS X, it's fairly mind-boggling how much extra stuff it has that your average user never sees. I recently encountered a problem on my MacBook Pro, where the Optical Audio was overriding my internal speakers, which prevented me from hearing any audio (without using headphones). Unfortunately, there's no easy-to-access preference pane to enable or disable various audio devices. This led me on a search for command-line utilities to manage system preferences.Aug. 8th, 2008 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 6 comments
ffmpeg is a cool tool.July 7th, 2008 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 3 comments
I've always thought it would be fun to build video games, and when my daughters were born, I knew I would eventually want to build some simple games that they could enjoy while they're young. My original attempt at this lead me to pygame, and the result was a simple alphabet/number game that plopped letters and numbers on the screen (very similar to AlphaBaby, but not nearly as good!). Unfortunately, I never continued to develop that one.Oct. 10st, 2007 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 1 comment
I've just released a simple little application called pgSlideShow. It's a free image slideshow application written in Python using pygame. It recursively searches a given directory for image files, and then displays them on a computer screen in Fullscreen mode.May 5nd, 2007 In: None By: Brad Montgomery 3 comments
I just skimmed through the list of PC World's 100 Best Products of 2007, and one of the things that caught my eye was