Posts Tagged ‘mac’

Using curl to quickly fetch images from the web

Just now I had 48 images in a web directory that I needed to download. Being lazy efficient like I am, I wasn’t about to settle for right-clicking on each one and downloading it – oh, the horror. A quick hit on Google, and I found this little gem for curl, which is installed by [...]

Ripping recorded video from a Cox DVR on OS X

Sometimes some of the most entertaining TV you’ll see can come from your local news – especially if you live in Arkansas it seems. And so was the case last Tuesday night. But more about that later. First let’s talk about getting the recorded program off of the DVR so we share it with the [...]

Windows on my Mac with VMWare Fusion

I’ve been running Windows XP Pro on my MacBook Pro for a few weeks now, and I have to say, I’m quite pleased. I have XP installed as a BootCamp partition, and at first, I booted into XP to do any GIS work. Lately, however, I’ve been working strictly in the VM, and ArcGIS works [...]