yet another alfred screenshot extension

17.04.2012

Why another alfred screenshot extension?

Crawling the web for the right extension takes about the time to write a new one.

'the triad of skitch'

Why I wanted a screenshot solution that is not Skitch?

When using a custom server you have to click the share button, wait for the image to be uploaded and thereafter you have to click again to copy the URL. Two clicks too much, every time. (When using skitch’s own server the URL is copied to your clipboard automatically after the upload.)

My wish list was short:

select a window or an area of the screen
optional: give me some seconds after selecting the area to pull up some menus
optional: edit the screenshot before uploading
optional: no upload, but move the image to my octopress media folder
random filenames
auto upload
get the URL copied to the clipboard after finishing the upload

# where to store the screen captures locally? lefolder=~/Pictures/lescreenshot if [ ! -d $lefolder ]; then mkdir -p $lefolder fi lemodifier={query} leedit='no' # t is the timed screen capture - 5 seconds after selection the region/window # p/e/s are going to open some application case $lemodifier in t ) leopts='-T 5' ;; p ) leedit='picturesque' ;; e ) leedit='photoshop' ;; s ) leedit='skitch' ;; esac cd $lefolder lefilename=`uuidgen | md5`.png screencapture $leopts -i $lefilename if [ $leedit == 'picturesque' ]; then open -W -a "Picturesque" $lefilename elif [ $leedit == 'photoshop' ]; then open -W -a "Adobe Photoshop CS6" $lefilename elif [ $leedit == 'skitch' ]; then open -W -a "Skitch" $lefilename fi # I bet you want to change the ssh and the domain/directory settings scp $lefilename mysshbox:~/i/ printf 'http://example.com/i/'$lefilename | pbcopy /usr/local/bin/growlnotify -t autoshot -n autoshot -I /Applications/Skitch.app/ -m "Screenshot uploaded, URL ready for pasting" unset lefolder unset lefilename unset leedit unset lemodifier

Copy the code from the gist, edit the local destination at the top and server settings at line 51/52 and use the following Alfred.app (beware: Powerpack feature (You don’t own it yet? What are you waiting for, it’s awesome)) settings or any other application starter of your desire. 'Alfred.app extension settings'

If you didn’t guess: After editing a screenshot, overwrite the original file to upload the edit.

Lion: Full Disk Encryption auf externen Platten

13.04.2012

Schritt 1: Wir öffnen das Terminal (über Spotlight oder im Dienstprogramme/Utilities Ordner zu finden) 'a fresh empty Terminal'

Schritt 2: Devicenamen vom Datenträger finden. Diesen findet man in der Identifier Spalte

diskutil list

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *8.0 GB     disk2
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS sonyvault               7.7 GB     disk2s2

Im Beispiel hier mit einem USB Stick wäre das disk2s2, sollte über den Namen des Datenträgers beziehungsweise über seine Größe leicht ermittelbar sein.

Schritt 3: Das Device umwandeln und damit das Passwort nicht direkt sichtbar zu lesen ist geben wir das über die Standardeingabe ein.

diskutil corestorage convert {device} -stdinpassphrase

Bonus Schritt 4: Nachschauen wie weit die Konvertiertung fortgeschritten ist.

diskutil corestorage list

oder für die ganz ungeduldigen:

watch -n2 diskutil corestorage list

Bei der internen Platte geht das auch bequemener Systemeinstellungen/Sicherheit/FileVault und für die Time Machine Festplatte über das zugehörige PrefPane.

Nun haben wir wenn der Rechner aus ist eine schöne verschlüsselte Platte. Dank Firewire und Thunderbolt gibt es die Möglichkeit direkt auf den Arbeitsspeicher zuzugreifen (DMA), was im Grunde etwas Gutes ist, aber in unserem Fall schlimmstens bedeutet dass das Passwort für die Festplatte/n direkt aus dem Arbeitsspeicher gelesen werden kann. Beim Aufwachen aus dem Standby sollte dieser Angriff erfolglos sein, aber um sicher zu gehen das der Schlüssel beim Wechsel in den Standby Modus verworfen wird sagen wir das Power Management nochmal explizit.

sudo pmset -a destroyfvkeyonstandby 1 

tmux as a screen replacement

19.01.2012

Since I could not find a way to get screen working with split screens and different windows I switched to tmux.

my current tmux configuration in action

So far, after setting up the same look and feel as my screen configuration, I quite like it (the tmux configuration is actually human read- and editable).

Below is my current .tmux.conf file

# we like colours set -g default-terminal "screen-256color" # change activator to ctrl+z unbind C-b set-option -g prefix C-z bind C-z send-prefix # history set -g history-limit 1000 # Allows for faster key repetition set -s escape-time 0 # Set window notifications setw -g monitor-activity on set -g visual-activity on # aggressive window resizing setw -g aggressive-resize on # start window numbering at 1 set -g base-index 1 # default statusbar colors set -g status-fg white set -g status-bg default # pane border set -g pane-active-border-bg default set -g pane-active-border-fg blue # command prompt set -g message-bg blue set -g message-fg white set -g message-attr bright # default window title colors set-window-option -g window-status-fg white set-window-option -g window-status-bg default set-window-option -g window-status-attr bright set-window-option -g window-status-alert-attr none set-window-option -g window-status-alert-bg default set-window-option -g window-status-alert-fg blue # active window title colors set-window-option -g window-status-current-fg white set-window-option -g window-status-current-bg red #set-window-option -g window-status-current-attr bright # change status window look set-window-option -g window-status-format '#I: #W' set-window-option -g window-status-current-format '#I: #W' # statusline set -g status-utf8 on set -g status-left-length 30 set -g status-right-length 60 set -g status-justify centre set -g status-left '#[fg=green,bright][ #h ][' set -g status-right '#[fg=green,bright][#[fg=blue,bright]#(uptime |cut -d ":" -f 4-) #[fg=green,bright]][ #[fg=blue,bright]%d.%m.%Y %I:%M #[fg=green,bright]]' # scrollback buffer n lines set -g history-limit 5000 # More straight forward key bindings for splitting unbind % bind H split-window -h unbind '"' bind V split-window -v bind k select-pane -U bind j select-pane -D bind h select-pane -L unbind l bind l select-pane -R bind m last-window bind-key C-r source ~/.tmux.conf unbind-key C-Up unbind-key C-Down bind-key C-h swap-pane -D unbind-key C-left unbind-key C-Right bind-key C-l swap-pane -U # Clock set-window-option -g clock-mode-style 24 # show pane number longer activator + q set -g display-panes-time 1500

Need more panes per window? need more panes?

Fotoshop by Adobé

10.01.2012

Fotoshop by Adobé from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo.

Fotoshop is a new beauty product from Adobé (aah-DOE-bay)

Flashfreier Google Chrome mit Flashfallback

03.01.2012

(* (c) 2011 Fabian Franke Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Needs multiple user feature; chrome v16 and newer 1. disable flash plugin in chrome 2. create new chrome user/profile with flash enabled 3. edit theFlashChromeUser to your new flash user 4. assign an alfred.app global hotkey (or any other comfortable way to envoke) to this script 5. rage about without-flash-I-suck-website while browsing 6. press hotkey 7. enjoy the full legacy web experience version history: changed the way a tab gets closed *) set theFlashChromeUser to "flashy" set theURL to "" tell application "Google Chrome" activate set theURL to URL of active tab of window 1 close tab (active tab index of window 1) of window 1 tell application "System Events" tell process "Google Chrome" tell menu bar 1 tell menu bar item "Users" tell menu "Users" click menu item theFlashChromeUser end tell end tell end tell end tell end tell delay 1 if (URL of active tab of window 1 is not "chrome://newtab/") then make new tab at end of tabs of window 1 end if set URL of active tab of window 1 to theURL end tell name

reboot

03.01.2012

time to reboot this.

Imagine a picture of some defibrillator paddles here.

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