Thursday, March 11, 2010

Hard Drive Crash Simulator

DriveSavers has a neat little interactive demonstration of how and why hard drives crash.

I had no idea fingerprints were so thick.

Monday, March 8, 2010

Trim accurately in QuickTime X with AppleScript

MacOSXhints.com has a neat little tip from "Anonymous" on using AppleScript to trim on the frame with QuickTime X. Just the fact that this is a tip should let you know enough to steer clear of QuickTime X.

tell application "QuickTime Player"
activate
trim document 1 from 0 to 600
end tell