Category Archives: geek

Automatically download torrent files from a RSS feed

I was looking for a way to parse a RSS feed I built using yahoo pipes and add new torrents to Transmission to download them automatically. I couldn’t find anything useful, so I just wrote a python script to do just that. If you want to use it, you’ll need to configure the first lines [...]

Emacs easy window switching

I just found out about a another cool emacs plugin: WindMove This packages allows you to switch windows withouth using C-x o. WindMove is included with emacs, just include the following code in your .emacs: (when (fboundp ‘windmove-default-keybindings) (windmove-default-keybindings)) More info @ http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove

Why Jungle Disk is so slow

I recently signed up for an account at Jungle disk, http://www.jungledisk.com. I’m paranoid about backups, I use Time Machine to do a full weekly backup and Jungle Disk as an off-site backup solution. It seemed the cheapest option since you only pay for what you upload, and although I have a full 160GB hard drive, [...]

How to fix Time Machine stopping

I had my Time Machine backup working and I used to do my backs every week or so. After I ran out of space, I bought a new external to use as a backup volume, so I formatted the new hard drive using Disk Utility and set it to use the GUID partition scheme and [...]