Django

Posted on by Mark Boszko

I’ve been trying to decide how to best go about building a site for a personal project I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve tried building it with a wiki back-end — and used DokuWiki, which is the least annoying wiki software I’ve had the pleasure of using. However, I’ve come to the conclusion…

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Motion Tracking for Screen Replacement

Posted on by Mark Boszko

This new video is a great introduction to tracking screen replacements. Imagineer Systems makes Mocha, a planar tracker that will allow you to get excellent tracks of a flat (or flat-ish) surface, often without tracking markers. A lite version, Mocha AE comes bundled with After Effects. Obviously, this isn’t a complete solution for iOS developers…

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AirPort Utility 5.6.1 on Mavericks

Posted on by Mark Boszko

I have an original AirPort Express 802.11g that I still use in the house, but for whatever reason, Apple has updated AirPort Utility so that it no longer works with that older unit. Pretty frustrating, because it otherwise works fine. It used to be that you could just download AirPort Utility 5.6.1 straight from Apple,…

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Make Mavericks Re-run the Setup Assistant

Posted on by Mark Boszko

Updating my old blog post, Make OS X re-run the initial Setup Assistant, Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks (and perhaps even earlier versions, back to 10.5) require a slightly different method, since the NetInfo Manager has now been done away with. Thanks to this comment on Mac OS X Hints for the updated information. Boot…

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Alcoholic Drinks Banned from Apple Messages!

Posted on by Mark Boszko

Ahh… I’ve always wanted to write one of those link-bait post titles. Now at least I have a fun excuse. I noticed today that in the “Smiley menu” in the Messages compose window, that the alcoholic beverages have been edited out. Normally, in the Objects section of the emoji menu, the order goes Baby Bottle,…

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