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+This article is very old and has been rendered obsolete for OS X 10.9 Mavericks and above. Apple uses v2 of the Samba protocol, dubbed SMB2 for file sharing by default now, which includes many technical advantages over AFP. On Ubuntu, the Samba package can be easily installed and configured to provide connectivity between Ubuntu und Mac OS X out of the box.
You should follow the steps in the following article only if you want to setup a Mac with an OS X version below 10.9. or you are absolutely sure you want to use AFP for file sharing.
diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-07-01-everything-back-to-normal-on-kremaliciouscom-almost.md b/_src/_posts/2008-07-01-everything-back-to-normal-on-kremaliciouscom-almost.md index cd9a93c0..d5c198b2 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-07-01-everything-back-to-normal-on-kremaliciouscom-almost.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-07-01-everything-back-to-normal-on-kremaliciouscom-almost.md @@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ tags: It all started with a move of my whole website to new and shiny servers with PHP 5 running by my host. I didn't heard of any incompatibilities between the latest Wordpress version running on PHP 5 and in fact Wordpress loves to use PHP 5. But somehow I wasn't able to update my site neither over http or ftp. Since I can contact my host admins directly ([thank you jpBerlin/Heinlein-Support!](http://www.jpberlin.de/)) this problem was addressed rather quickly. They just neglected to tell me that the server address for login also changed (I should have think of this too). So all my changes were applied to my Wordpress installation on the old server. Problem solved I thought. - - But more problems appeared. The display of the newest and latest posts and the next post/previous post links at the end of every article didn't work as they should. But not enough I wasn't able to moderate any comments. Sigh. Looked like any sort of database problem and I started a lot of things. First I manually scanned all database entries for any wrong things but I couldn't find anything suspicious. After that I dropped the whole database and imported my database dump but this didn't solve the problems. My final step was to re-install everything so that Wordpress creates the tables in the databse. And guess what: It didn't work too! Now it's clear something with my code must be wrong, I thought. For displaying the latest posts in Wordpress I use a pretty standard way which is [described in the Wordpress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/get_posts): diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-07-08-new-aperture-plug-ins-jade-and-ptlens.md b/_src/_posts/2008-07-08-new-aperture-plug-ins-jade-and-ptlens.md index 6db2e9c9..eab8925e 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-07-08-new-aperture-plug-ins-jade-and-ptlens.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-07-08-new-aperture-plug-ins-jade-and-ptlens.md @@ -12,12 +12,12 @@ tags: - aperture --- -![image](/media/aperture-plugin128.png)Last week two new image editing plug-ins were announced for Aperture 2.1: The PTLens plug-in for correcting barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective and the Jade plug-in for automatic correction of color, levels and exposure. +Last week two new image editing plug-ins were announced for Aperture 2.1: The PTLens plug-in for correcting barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective and the Jade plug-in for automatic correction of color, levels and exposure. + +![image](/media/aperture-plugin128.png) The [PTLens plug-in](http://epaperpress.com/ptlens/) from [ePaperPress](http://epaperpress.com/) was available as a Photoshop plug-in in the past and is well known for its lens pincushion, barrel distortion, vignetting, chromatic aberration, and perspective correction abilities based on a lens model database similiar to [Kekus' LensFix CI plug-in](http://www.kekus.com/software/plugin.html). - - While I love the plug-ins ability to correct perspectives the Aperture plug-in doesn't work with RAW files(!), just with tiff and jpeg files which is one more way to compromise the way Aperture works (In my opinion the whole plug-in architecture of Aperture does that). And while I would love to show you the plug-ins user interface in Aperture PTLens refused to open either JPEG or TIFF files. So here's just a screenshot of the standalone application: [![PTLens UI](/media/ptlens_ui_thumb.jpg)](/media/ptlens_ui.png) diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-07-15-wordpress-25-get-rid-of-that-sluggish-dashboard.md b/_src/_posts/2008-07-15-wordpress-25-get-rid-of-that-sluggish-dashboard.md index 802f545b..e248a8c6 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-07-15-wordpress-25-get-rid-of-that-sluggish-dashboard.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-07-15-wordpress-25-get-rid-of-that-sluggish-dashboard.md @@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ tags: ![Wordpress Logo by kremalicious](/media/wordpress-logo.png)Since Wordpress 2.5 it was nearly impossible for me to log into Wordpress and quickly head over to the write tab. The Dashboard always wants to load a bunch of things in it but this always seemed to fail in my setup and slow things down. And not enough the Dashboard just locks everything up while loading which can take more than one minute. I've searched for a simple way of disabling those feeds, plugins etc. stuff the Wordpress Dashboard tries to fill but it seems you can't disable these from the backend. But there's a quick way for doing this which involves editing your /wp-admin/index-extra.php and uncomment some lines there. This will leave your Dashboard intact while it stops Wordpress from connecting to various sources to screw your blog up when you just want to quickly write something. - -So open your /wp-admin/index-extra.php file. It should look like this: +So open your `/wp-admin/index-extra.php` file. It should look like this: {% highlight php %} - Especially there's two things to do here: First you have to use technologies to circumvent firewalls. Second is to secure your connections and your communication to protect you and your sources. And remember that you have to protect your Computer _before_ arriving in China because websites like the [Tor project](http://www.torproject.org) are blocked in China. @@ -48,7 +45,7 @@ If you use mails be sure to encrypt everything, your logins with SSL/TLS **and** -Just don't download Skype while being in China! If you want to use Skype be sure to download it outside of China. But remember that it's not possible to secure your Skype chats and calls because they can't be encrypted. +Just don't download Skype while being in China! If you want to use Skype be sure to download it outside of China. But remember that it's not possible to secure your Skype chats and calls because they can't be encrypted. @@ -86,4 +83,3 @@ If you want to know more about how to protect you and your sources be sure to ch [Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (Reporters Without Borders)](http://www.rsf.org./IMG/pdf/guide_gb_md.pdf) [Reporters’ Guide to China (Foreign Correspondents Club of China)](http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/Guide_FCCC.pdf) - diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-howto-create-a-mobile-encrypted-aperture-vault.md b/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-howto-create-a-mobile-encrypted-aperture-vault.md index 4a9927b4..3756bc81 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-howto-create-a-mobile-encrypted-aperture-vault.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-howto-create-a-mobile-encrypted-aperture-vault.md @@ -17,9 +17,6 @@ tags: So in this quick tutorial I will show you how to create an encrypted Aperture Vault by using Sparse Bundle Disk Images and by utilizing tools built into Mac OS X. All this can be done in two simple steps. - - - ## 1. Create an encrypted disk image First you have to create the encrypted disk image where the Aperture Vault will reside. So fire up Disk Utility from the Utilities folder inside your Applications folder or use Spotlight to open it. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-the-kremalicious-marsedit-style.md b/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-the-kremalicious-marsedit-style.md index 9789accb..79515d82 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-the-kremalicious-marsedit-style.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-08-22-the-kremalicious-marsedit-style.md @@ -14,8 +14,6 @@ categories: A while ago I've made a custom style for the blog on kremalicious.com and would like to share this style with you. The style is based on the colors used on kremalicious.com with a black background and light grey text on top of it. The links have the same blueish hover style as on my website: - - [![The Kremalicious MarsEdit Style](/media/marsedit_kremalicious_big.png)](/media/marsedit_kremalicious_big.png) Here's how to apply the style for your blog preview in MarsEdit: diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-09-01-a-new-browser-is-coming-google-chrome.md b/_src/_posts/2008-09-01-a-new-browser-is-coming-google-chrome.md index 2d549447..6432f01a 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-09-01-a-new-browser-is-coming-google-chrome.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-09-01-a-new-browser-is-coming-google-chrome.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: post title: 'A New Browser Is Coming: Google Chrome' author: Matthias Kretschmann +image: googlechrome.png date: 2008-09-01 20:40:38+00:00 wordpress_id: 197 @@ -13,12 +14,10 @@ tags: - google --- -![Google Chrome](/media/googlechrome.png)Today some informations about Google's new open source browser called Google Chrome came up. First published as a comic on [Blogoscoped.com](http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/) and [confirmed by Kara Swisher](http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080901/google-ignites-a-new-browser-war-with-microsoft-by-unveiling-one-of-its-own/), Google Chrome will be a [WebKit](http://webkit.org/)-based browser with a new JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8 and with [Google Gears](http://gears.google.com/) included. +Today some informations about Google's new open source browser called Google Chrome came up. First published as a comic on [Blogoscoped.com](http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/) and [confirmed by Kara Swisher](http://kara.allthingsd.com/20080901/google-ignites-a-new-browser-war-with-microsoft-by-unveiling-one-of-its-own/), Google Chrome will be a [WebKit](http://webkit.org/)-based browser with a new JavaScript Virtual Machine called V8 and with [Google Gears](http://gears.google.com/) included. Google Chrome has a different UI-Design compared to other browsers especially regarding tabs. Google Chrome tabs will be on top of the address bar so every tab has its own address bar. Beside that every tab will run its own process to improve stability. - - Using WebKit as its rendering engine, Google Chrome will have all the cool WebKit stuff included like [CSS Gradients](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/webkit-team-introduced-css-based-gradients/), [CSS Masks](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/more-awesomeness-from-the-webkit-team-css-masks/) and the CSS3 property text-shadow, which [I've covered earlier in detail](http://www.kremalicious.com/2008/04/make-cool-and-clever-text-effects-with-css-text-shadow/). Google Chrome will be optimized for use with web applications and, instead of using [WebKit's new core JavaScript engine Squirrelfish](http://webkit.org/blog/189/announcing-squirrelfish/), Google decided to use a new, multi-core processor optimized JavaScript virtual machine developed by the V8-team in Denmark. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-10-23-the-finest-coffee-cups-most-incredible-coffee-icons-on-the-web.md b/_src/_posts/2008-10-23-the-finest-coffee-cups-most-incredible-coffee-icons-on-the-web.md index 55e98e34..d2ea267e 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-10-23-the-finest-coffee-cups-most-incredible-coffee-icons-on-the-web.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-10-23-the-finest-coffee-cups-most-incredible-coffee-icons-on-the-web.md @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ layout: post title: The Finest Coffee Cups - Most Incredible Coffee Icons On The Web author: Matthias Kretschmann +image: coffee-cup-icon-kremalicious.png date: 2008-10-23 02:23:39+00:00 wordpress_id: 277 @@ -10,12 +11,10 @@ categories: - design --- -![Coffee Cup Icon by kremalicious](/media/coffee-cup-icon-kremalicious.png)In this article I present you the finest icons of the fuel of a lot of designers and students (and other people too) available on the web. I've just released [my own coffee cup icon](/coffee-cup-icon) but this beverage seem to have inspired a lot of other beautiful icons especially for Mac OS X. +In this article I present you the finest icons of the fuel of a lot of designers and students (and other people too) available on the web. I've just released [my own coffee cup icon](/coffee-cup-icon) but this beverage seem to have inspired a lot of other beautiful icons especially for Mac OS X. Now just get your next coffee, sit back and enjoy this little showcase. Just click on the images to get to the icon sources. At the end of the article you'll find links to some nice high quality coffee tutorials. And remember you will have more control over time itself if you [reach your 100th cup of coffee](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Hundred_Big_Boys). - - ## The Finest Coffee Cups Please note that these icons are the property of their respective owners and you should always consult their copyright notice first before using these icons. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2008-10-26-the-definite-guide-to-watermarks-in-apple-aperture.md b/_src/_posts/2008-10-26-the-definite-guide-to-watermarks-in-apple-aperture.md index 1d47e611..d4e015b3 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2008-10-26-the-definite-guide-to-watermarks-in-apple-aperture.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2008-10-26-the-definite-guide-to-watermarks-in-apple-aperture.md @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ I received quite a few mails in the last days from Aperture users asking for the In this article I will lay out every way I've found to add watermarks to your images in an Aperture 2 workflow and will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each solution. The goal of this article is to give you a brief overview about the various ways you can add watermarks to your images so you can easily choose the best one for different needs. In short these are the possibilities: - - ## 1. The Aperture Way diff --git a/_src/_posts/2009-01-05-the-mac-in-futurama.md b/_src/_posts/2009-01-05-the-mac-in-futurama.md index 7fd171c6..a5e56c49 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2009-01-05-the-mac-in-futurama.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2009-01-05-the-mac-in-futurama.md @@ -17,9 +17,7 @@ wordpress_id: 440 Time for some Mac Futurama crossover geekiness! In a fun watching process I've compiled a list of all the references to Apple's Macintosh and other Apple products. In Futurama we mainly see references to the old, classic Macs running [System 6](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_System_Software_6), [System 7](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_7) or [OS 9](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_9) ending with the colorful iMac G3. This is likely caused by the timeframe in which Matt Groening and David X. Cohen developed the first season of Futurama (1997-1999). -So the following screens from Futurama refer all to Macs available in or before 1999. Also you'll find some nice links to downloadable Futurama stuff for your Mac at the end of this article. And may the lawyers of Twentieth Century Fox now please stop reading. - - +The following screens from Futurama refer all to Macs available in or before 1999. Also you'll find some nice links to downloadable Futurama stuff for your Mac at the end of this article. And may the lawyers of Twentieth Century Fox now please stop reading. For orientation: I've followed the original four season production cycle and not Fox's five seasons splitting. The "real" Season 5 are the recently released DVD movies/Episodes on Comedy Central. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2010-07-03-momcorp.md b/_src/_posts/2010-07-03-momcorp.md index a6e78851..94729f01 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2010-07-03-momcorp.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2010-07-03-momcorp.md @@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ tags: - futurama --- -The recent Futurama episode "[Attack of the Killer App](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_App)" mocked a phone and a company you probably all have heard of. I've made some wallpapers with the logo of MomCorp presented everywhere in this episode. +The recent Futurama episode [Attack of the Killer App](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_of_the_Killer_App) mocked a phone and a company you probably all have heard of. I've made some wallpapers with the logo of MomCorp presented everywhere in this episode. The wallpaper comes in four versions with two color variations and two text variations with Mom's favorite tagline. Here's an overview: diff --git a/_src/_posts/2012-04-04-android-tab-conundrum.md b/_src/_posts/2012-04-04-android-tab-conundrum.md index 97509b91..17fcf2fe 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2012-04-04-android-tab-conundrum.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2012-04-04-android-tab-conundrum.md @@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ date: 2012-04-04 14:24:30+00:00 layout: post slug: android-tab-conundrum title: The Android Tab Bar Conundrum. Again. +image: tabs_overview.png + wordpress_id: 1556 categories: @@ -13,14 +15,9 @@ tags: - android --- -![](/media/tabs_overview.png) -With [Instagram for Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&hl=en) there's once again an app getting ported to Android from iOS which doesn't follow the platform specific guidelines with a lot of elements. Most obviously in the form of the app's main navigation tabs which Instagram for Android puts at the bottom as opposed to Google's suggested placement of tabs at the top as part of the action bar. Now smart Android designers [chime in and call foul](https://plus.google.com/109726284197282147930/posts/5McKooqNnnd) for this Android Design Guideline violation [as others](http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2011/07/tabs-top-or-bottom.html) and [I have done](http://exquisitedroid.com/cardcloud/) in the past with other apps. - -But this time it's a bit complicated, let me explain. - - - +With [Instagram for Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.android&hl=en) there's once again an app getting ported to Android from iOS which doesn't follow the platform specific guidelines with a lot of elements. But this time it's a bit complicated, let me explain. +Most obviously in the form of the app's main navigation tabs which Instagram for Android puts at the bottom as opposed to Google's suggested placement of tabs at the top as part of the action bar. Now smart Android designers [chime in and call foul](https://plus.google.com/109726284197282147930/posts/5McKooqNnnd) for this Android Design Guideline violation [as others](http://www.androiduipatterns.com/2011/07/tabs-top-or-bottom.html) and [I have done](http://exquisitedroid.com/cardcloud/) in the past with other apps. ## Problem No. 1: Navigation Controls diff --git a/_src/_posts/2012-06-13-retina-icons-in-wordpress-3-4.md b/_src/_posts/2012-06-13-retina-icons-in-wordpress-3-4.md index 4add483a..edafe30a 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2012-06-13-retina-icons-in-wordpress-3-4.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2012-06-13-retina-icons-in-wordpress-3-4.md @@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ And it looks gorgeous. Here's a detail screenshot of the admin area in 3.4 in fu ![](/media/wp34_retina_icons.png) - - So if you're a plugin developer you absolutely want to make sure to include retina assets for your plugin, like a double sized admin menu icon. There's just one problem: WordPress doesn't include anything to make this easy for developers. The functions `register_post_type()` and `add_menu_page()` only allow you to define one image as menu icon which then gets inserted as `img` tag. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2012-07-15-add-your-web-site-to-the-windows-8-metro-ui.md b/_src/_posts/2012-07-15-add-your-web-site-to-the-windows-8-metro-ui.md index 53c10189..3fdd81b7 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2012-07-15-add-your-web-site-to-the-windows-8-metro-ui.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2012-07-15-add-your-web-site-to-the-windows-8-metro-ui.md @@ -20,8 +20,6 @@ Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10 make it possible to pin your site to the Metr There was a great [post](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1136) about that in the H5BP issues section and Microsoft has a [full explanation](https://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2012/06/08/high-quality-visuals-for-pinned-sites-in-windows-8.aspx). It all comes down to this: - - * create a 144x144px image with your logo/icon filling the whole canvas and a transparent background * add two `meta` tags in the `head` of your site defining the image path and optionally the tile color * as noted in the [issue post](https://github.com/h5bp/html5-boilerplate/issues/1136), the image must be saved as a transparent 32bit PNG ("24bit" in Photoshop's Save For Web dialogue) without running it through image optimisers like [ImageOptim](http://imageoptim.com) diff --git a/_src/_posts/2012-08-07-projectpurple.md b/_src/_posts/2012-08-07-projectpurple.md index 2c7498d4..6ea7f892 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2012-08-07-projectpurple.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2012-08-07-projectpurple.md @@ -14,13 +14,12 @@ tags: - wallpaper --- -It [has been revealed](http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/3/3218846/schiller-forstall-fight-club-day-three-apple-samsung-trial/in/2971889) the original iPhone was developed in a locked down building under the name "Project Purple". Because of the secrecy involved, the team decorated the building with [Fight Club](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/) references: -> Forstall said that "on the front door of the Purple Dorm we put a sign up that said 'Fight Club'... because the first rule of that project was to not talk about it outside those doors." - -If you don't think this demands a wallpaper, you're weird. +It [has been revealed](http://www.theverge.com/2012/8/3/3218846/schiller-forstall-fight-club-day-three-apple-samsung-trial/in/2971889) the original iPhone was developed in a locked down building under the name "Project Purple". Because of the secrecy involved, the team decorated the building with [Fight Club](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0137523/) references. If you don't think this demands a wallpaper, you're weird. +> Forstall said that "on the front door of the Purple Dorm we put a sign up that said 'Fight Club'... because the first rule of that project was to not talk about it outside those doors." + ![](/media/project-purple-nexus-kremalicious.png) The full size I designed the wallpaper in is 3200x2048px. I don't know why Apple uses 3200px as width for the default wallpapers in Mountain Lion but it seems a good width for now. And a height of 2048px makes this big size perfectly usable for the iPad 3 too. diff --git a/_src/_posts/2015-09-13-css-app-store-badges.md b/_src/_posts/2015-09-13-css-app-store-badges.md index 6ebc8657..bd16f593 100644 --- a/_src/_posts/2015-09-13-css-app-store-badges.md +++ b/_src/_posts/2015-09-13-css-app-store-badges.md @@ -13,13 +13,7 @@ tags: - svg --- -The badges provided by all app store providers just don't play well together with their varying typography and different sizing. Only Apple provides a proper SVG source for their badge, Google doesn’t even provide a retina bitmap asset. - -On top of that, using svg or png assets makes localization a pain unless you want to manage multiple assets per language. - -So let's make them all visually unified, infinitely scalable, with pure text for easier localization and some web interaction styles. And while we’re at it: different sizes with the same markup by using some modifier classes. - - +The badges provided by all app store providers just don't play well together with their varying typography and different sizing. So let's make them all visually unified, infinitely scalable, with pure text for easier localization and some web interaction styles. And while we’re at it: different sizes with the same markup by using some modifier classes.