I got this nice app, LastHistory, it analyze music listening histories from Last.fm through an interactive (dot) visualization.

But this app still lack of numerical data. From the picture above, I can say that I’m really a night owl. Most of my library is rock (pink), I like post-rock.

The other music analyzer is iTunes genius. It’s pretty neat. Picture below show us Genius Mixes, that categorize music library based on genre. You can make playlist based on one song too.

I got this hint from macosxhints somewhere.

Say you downloaded movies from scene, sub included, usually it’s on sub + idx format. Many media player don’t work well with this, or you just want plain srt files. What you need is D-Subtitler, OCR (Optical character recognition) app, it scan an image and encode it into text. This is an old released app. Sometimes the result is just muddy.

Way to do it:

• Change extension *.sub to *.vob
• Drag and drop to D-Subtitler. When it says it’s waiting, click on the green circle (I always thought I have to wait for something).
• So far all subs I got only work with Choice of gray levels: 255,255,0,255
• Use TextEdit to scan any error (Edit > Spelling and Grammar > Show Spelling and Grammar ) ⌘:
• You can use more complex and serious app like MovCaptioner. This is actually used for captioning.

Bonus:

A.Christmas.Carol.DVDRip.XviD-RUBY english subtitle: ruby-accarol.srt

Last few weeks, all TV show in my watchlist are downloaded automatically. Just need two application to do that. Transmission, still best torrent client for Mac I think, but I’m not trying µTorrent beta for Mac yet. Second, Automatic (preference pane plugin actually), allows you to auto download content linked in RSS feeds: podcasts, videocasts, torrentcasts.

How to set it up? Quick Start Guide & Tips available in zip files you get Automatic’s site. It’s pretty clear, screenshot available. Get the feed link, make new subscription, insert filter. In Transmission, you only need to set ‘Watch for torrent files in’ (Preferences > Transfer). Code On a Diet, both lightweight and easy on the resources.

Oot. Midseason, many new show. Best new show: The Pacific, story about World War II, created by the same team behind Band of Brothers.

• MacBook white 2.2 GHz (late 2007), runs Snow Leopard 10.6.2, including Apple Mini DVI to VGA Adapter
• Compaq Presario V2000 (from 2004 if I’m not mistaken) , runs Windows XP (something) and Ubuntu Karmic Koala
• iPod touch 8 GB, 3rd gen
• Canon Digital IXUS 100 IS / PowerShot SD780
• Seagate Expansion 250 GB
• Nokia 6131 (+ one old Sony Ericsson and one Nokia CDMA, never use these actually)
• Linksys ADSL2+ Ethernet/USB Modem AM300 + D-Link 8-Port Switch
• Sennheiser HD 202 Headphones

[my list at gdgt]

For what? Host your own website, blog, email server, security systems etc.

DynDNS will provide Dynamic DNS Free (DDNS) that allows you to create a hostname that points to your home or office IP address, providing an easy-to-remember URL for quick access. Setup guide available from Saif Khan.

Linksys modem/router need to be set up, so the domain can be routed to your server. Pain in the Tech shows you how.

MAMP stands for Macintosh, Apache, MySQL and PHP, local server environment for Mac OS X. Stooryduster shows you how to setup wordpress in local server.

In MAMP Pro this local server can be accessed from the internet, with the service provided by DynDNS. Here’s screenshot for setting in my case, server and hosts setting.

And voilà, http://margjakob.ath.cx:8888 is ready for the world. (my movies and tv log)

My system: MacBook white 2.2 GHz, Snow Leopard 10.6.2, WordPress 2.9.1

[my athcx]

Didn’t work well (I try Safari and Chrome). Yeah… it still beta. But I really need flash that didn’t eat my cpu and need that MySpace music player too. I check out at least 5 band a day before I get 1 or 2 of them. So just click anywhere till the music plays!

[update 201109] If you can’t bear them, here’s how to revert to stable version.

Items to delete: -1 (system: snow leopard, macntfs-3g)

3 MacBook? Nope, the black one not shining, sticker came with Snow Leopard DVD box.

Scene from Chicago (2002). Newspaper guy waiting for someone at window to tell him the result at court. If the defendant guilty sell the guilty newspaper, otherwise sell the innocent one.

Damn! My connection really crazy, especially this last 3 days. And not only me, all people in Bandung who use the same provider facing this same problem. This slow stupid connection started at September 10. New Bandwidth Management, big latency at 13-18 pm and 19 pm-12 am. Only got around 384k at this hours, half day and at the time we need it most. My speed up to 2048k but sometimes I got 4 digit latency (people already make a joke about this: you can buy ‘teh botol‘ with that digit :D).

If we call their complaint service at 147, the answer just the same every time. Try ping here, try ping there, okay Sir, we will pass your complaint, and same thing happened if they sent technician to your house. So, don’t call them?

Maybe we should do something like people of Monticello? The saga began in 2007, when the town passed a referendum approving the city-owned fiber network. The city says that it had approached TDS (their internet service provider) and was told that no such system would be installed in town in the near future, so it went ahead with its own plans. Want 50Mbps Internet in your town? Threaten to roll out your own. But this is hard, nobody got poor people’s back in this country. This is not sue-crazy America, everybody sue everybody as they like, if you can’t beat ’em, sue ’em.

Some of our friend at Kaskus already start gathering people to visit Speedy Office some time in the next few days. I hope they good result over there.

Speedy, speed that you can trash!

Helping my friend’s sister get her new MacBook Pro ready for daily use. And also this is a chance to try many thing that can’t be done with only one MacBook or with other brand notebook. (I never succeed doing screen sharing, internet sharing with my old compaq. But I never try really hard. Slacker!)

Weird huh? Snow Leopard problem? I don’t know why, I’m using Vienna at the time, then I just go to active screen corner, desktop is shown just like that. And that weird thing stay there a minute or two, nothing else happened, so I didn’t really give attention, I check it later it already back to normal aurora.