Triple Boot Macbook Pro + Storage

Posted on August 28, 2011 by andrew

After my Macbook pro failed last year and it’s internals were replaced, I didn’t bother with putting windows back onto the laptop. Recently though, I’ve realized I did need some form of windows on the laptop. I gave virtual box a try but running windows inside of virtual box was rather slow and not exactly what I wanted. So I decided that I’d need to put windows back on through boot camp.

While I was deciding this this course of action, I realized if I was about to go about destroying my partition tables, I might as well see about getting some form of Linux on the machine as well. You know… for science. I decided to go with Linux Mint. Mainly because I like the word Mint and Ubuntu has too many ‘u’s in it for my tastes. (And Mint is a bit more new user friendly)

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Autosaving for Photoshop

Posted on August 26, 2011 by andrew

IconPhotoshop is one of those programs that likes to crash frequently. In fact the more important the current image you are working on, the greater the chance of Photoshop crashing. There is also a greater chance of you failing to remember to save your file sometime in the last three or four hours.

Wouldn’t it be great if Photoshop could auto-save your open document? It would! But it doesn’t! This causes a conundrum: How does one get to automatically save your work every so often if Photoshop does not have such an option.

Recently when one of the many web-comic artists I follow complained of loosing three hours of work; I realized that I could fix that problem. (No, not the Photoshop crashing problem) Or I could at least mitigate a lot of the damages by loosing three hours of work.

Hence, I’ve made a program PS AutoSaver to solve this issue. This is a C#/Python program that sits neatly in your taskbar tray and will remember to save your open work document every couple of minutes for you. It also has the ability to auto-launch Photoshop, start directly in your task-tray and even create versions of the saved file every time it saves.

The goal was to design a simple enough tool that it could replace the Photoshop shortcut and add in the bonus feature of auto saving the work document. Hopefully it succeeds in this design.

You can download the program from this page.

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Eve Character Market Wallet

Posted on January 20, 2011 by andrew

Edit/Updated: This was put on hold as shortly after making this post CCP announced they are planning to rebuild the entire API system. Since this would rely on that. I’ll just wait till they make their switch.

Something new I’m working on for myself, is a market wallet journal for characters in the game eve-online. I already have an alpha version from some time ago, but I’ve started over in favor of newer programming methods I’ve learned since then.

Here is my much more streamlined version of the character api get portion. So far it will let me know if I have the correct number of characters for the id and key and then goes off to the eve-api servers and brings me back some names. It also keeps all the other information you get with the character names, but that’s not important for this window.

The end goal is to have a full program that I can use to follow my market orders, price fluctuations, where I’ve sold my items and who’s been buying them. Plus lots of other useless information that is required to know but of little importance. :)

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Welcome 2011!

Posted on January 1, 2011 by andrew

Happy New Year! 2011!

Adventure awaits! I can hardly wait!

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Running the PyQt4 scripts

Posted on December 22, 2010 by andrew

After getting PyQt4 installed onto the mac, (following the instructions in the previous post about getting it installed on the mac) python needs to be called differently for everything to work. Gleaning the internet comes up with this:

arch -i386 python2.6 %pathToScript%

otherwise, running it just as:

python2.6 %pathToScript%

will throw this kind of an error:

ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so, 2): no suitable image found. 
Did find: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtGui.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
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Installing PyQt4 for Mac

Posted on December 17, 2010 by andrew

Finally found a decent set of directions for installing PyQt4:

http://www.expobrain.net/2010/06/22/install-pyqt4-in-snow-leopard

This attempt was a success!

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Tron Evolution is Released!

Posted on December 8, 2010 by andrew

Tron Evolution is now out in stores. Pick up a copy!

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Open a Folder

Posted on September 3, 2010 by andrew

I found an awesome plug-in for word press that does syntax highlighting for code. So I updated the scripts section. I only put one small script in there. In fact, it does only one thing. It opens a folder.

When working in Maya I find myself wanting the folder that belongs to the current file that is open. So I just made up this simple script, added it as a button and now I can have my folder opened whenever I need it to be. Which is surprisingly often.

import maya.cmds as mc
import os

fileList = mc.file(q=True, l=True)
os.startfile(os.path.dirname(fileList[0]))

I’m still trying to figure out how I want to lay out my sections and pages. So things may change yet.

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Old Demo Reel is back up

Posted on August 30, 2010 by andrew

After much wrestling with wordpress and it’s 8mb file limit, I got the old demo reel back up and working pretty much correctly. It used to have a control bar you could start and stop and change the volume, but it appears to have vanished into the abyss of the internets.

Such with an update, there is a new page across the top one can now click to take themselves to the past to view the demo reel.

If I replace it with a mov instead of using flv, I might not have to worry about the control bar. But that shall be for another time.

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Time to Reboot

Posted on August 30, 2010 by andrew

I believe it’s time to reboot this website. And make it a bit more fancy. Word press is fancy. And it’s easy to use. I like this. The data from the old website will be back up soon once I sort it all out. And then we go from there. Sounds like a plan.

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