Ecoute: a lightweight iTunes replacement

Sometimes I feel like iTunes is a little bit too demanding on system resources, it happends to me from time to time that I start feeling my Mac a little bit slow and then I check my ActivityMonitor.app and iTunes is eating up to 1.5GB of my RAM (out of my 4GB :P) that's alot of memory for a simple music player. After surfing the net for a nice solution I came across Ecoute.

Ecoute seems to me a really nice lightweit music player, the first thing that I like about Ecoute is that it plays your music right out of your iTunes library so you don't have to manage 2 librarys when syncing with your iPod/iPhone, I liked that since you only have to download this 3.9MB app unzip it, open and you are ready to go.

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Repair a Mac OS X HFS+ Partition table

At the time of writing this post I must say that I feel like a hero! That feeling is wonderful you know, when someone has a problem with their computer and not a simple but a HUGE one and you are able to repair em you turn to be that people hero.

Today my friend Avaco12 made a little mistake while installing bootcamp on her iMac, she left her external (200GB) disk connected, and when Windows asked her where to put the new Partition she accidentally selected her preciousus external drive, when she realized it was already too late, windows had already destroyed the partition table on her disk. She had 1 HFS parition and 1 FAT. She was crying because she said she had her entire life on that disk, so she asked me for help and I started researching what could I possibly do to repair the disk or at least retrieve her data.

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How to install Plesk 9 on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS

I love administrating servers but when it comes to fulfilling my clients need I wish I had some magic software that could help me manage the server resources and everything. Well my iPhone does this ... nah I'm just kidding obviusly Plesk is the way to go since thats the title of this post.

When I found what was Plesk capable off I was amazed because it offers alot of features that can help you automate your bussiness however there is one thing that I don't like about it: "Plesk documentation sucks" literally. And i'm sure you agree with me and that's probably why you are here.

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Switching between Tabs in Safari in a more friendly way

Man I like Safari :( It's a really cool fast/light/powerful/beautiful/all-the-last browser. I only got 1 small problem with it... THE KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS SUCKS ! I'm really used to Mozilla's friendly tab navigation , with Command-#number I can go right into the tab I want to, with Ctrl-Tab I can change from one tab to another however with safari I gotta press Command-Shift-Arrow or Command-Shift-[ and this requieres me to use both hands BOTH HANDS, can you believe it?

Today with the amazing release of Safari 4 I was thinking in giving Safari a chance again. I gotta admit the new Safari interface got my eye. I think is way better than chrome and I just love it, I still have the same issue with keyboard shortcuts but then I thought "im using a mac, there must be a way" so I started checking here and there and found a small work around to personalize certain behaivours in Safari and I found a way.

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Javascript Regultar Expression for matching Domains on a string

Today I had a hard time creating a regexp to match domains on a string. I wouldn't like the internauts who visit this small blog to suffer the same pain, so here's how to :

var StringWithData = " asd http://subdomain.perrohunter.com/lol/something.php asd";
re = /http://w+([.-]?[a-z]+)*.com/;
var results = re.exec(StringWithData);
alert(results[0]);

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Fixing coda not aceppting SSL Certificates

Coda is by far most the best Developer Tool I've ever used on a PC or a Mac. It simply concentrates all you need to develop web on a simple and cute window. Some of it's features that I like are the auto-completation, Multiple Site management, Preview , CSS Editor a syntax highlinting.

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