Entries Tagged as 'applescript'
star trail stacking in photoshop
October 4th, 2009 · 5 Comments
I have always wanted to do this kind of photography, but with most digital cameras there is simply no way you can leave the shutter open and the sensor on for a few hours. My D40 starts to get some serious noise after a few minutes, and there clearly must be an upper limit due [...]
Tags: applescript · general geek · photography · time lapse
Increase the frequency that Gmail checks your POP mail account
August 24th, 2009 · 13 Comments
if you have Gmail set up to check your pop accounts they don't let you set the polling frequency anywhere. This can be bad because it makes you go to the settings page to be able to hit the refresh button on each one of your accounts! This explains how you can fix that.
Tags: applescript · general geek
“Arduino Powered” CD Changing Robot
June 17th, 2009 · 11 Comments
This is an arduino powered cd changing robot. It uses vacuum to pick up and move cds from stack to computer and back again. This was set up to automate some cd ripping I have been putting off for a while.
Tags: applescript · arduino · cd changing robot · robots
I’m waiting for a package like a snake in the grass.
February 14th, 2008 · No Comments
And by that I mean I'm stalking fedex.
I'm currently waiting for my Ardino starter pack to arrive from Adafruit Industries and I'm getting a bit impatient. I decided to automate the psychotic task of manually reloading the tracking page every ten minutes.
I'm sure there are web sites out there to keep you updated [...]
Tags: applescript · general geek · osx