Mac OSX pmset utiltiy

Had a requirement to start machine at predetermined time.
pmset utility can do the same ! Check its usage details in man pages.

Hidden utility in Mac OSX to convert html (and other formats) to pdf

Utility is located in /System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert

Example:
/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f ~/Desktop/Quotes.html -o ~/Desktop/Quotes.pdf -j "application/pdf"

/System/Library/Printers/Libraries/convert -f Learning.rtf -j "application/pdf" > sample.pdf

Credits: http://forums.realsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?t=13436

Technical fun

Message on Mac OSX 10.4.x machine, first time when "sudo" command was used.
Last line is a classic from spiderman and got added after spiderman movie was released. Earlier Mac OSX sudo commands just gave #1 and #2 warnings. Apple's engineers certainly have humor !

Technical fun

Bug in stuffit (for Mac OS X). Too many hours to unzip ?? Classic signed/unsigned integer bug.

Technical fun

When Google says n results are found, these are approximate.
It doesn't find all the results, in this particular case, after moving to page three, all the results were exhausted, although earlier estimate was upto four pages.

Technical fun

While using the calculator on mac os X, the buttons disaapeard. Moving the mouse over them, got a few back.
Classic refresh problem.

Drawing styles - Movie posters from south India.

Same scene can be drawn in various styles. Over time, I have collected samples of various styles. Attached are samples.

Look at the image highlighted with a red arrow. Notice the usage of few colors and wide spaced black lines.

Portable and free apps

One of the pains of windows software is portability ! Install the app, it makes changes to registry, uninstall it, leaves registry bloated. And if you wish to backup data, you'll need to manually figure it out.

Portable Apps is a collection of popular applications which carry data along with application. It has minimum installation and no need to backup (registry, Application data, My documents, etc). And it is FREE.

Check out the entire list of applications available at http://portableapps.com/