It takes me a while to discover how to do it, so I’ll leave this post as a note to myself and to anyone which will have the same need.
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Build 64-bit Skia on Mac OS X
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Build PyQt4 into your virtualenv
Here I’ll show the steps to build and install PyQt4 inside a virtualenv.
These instructions are related to Mac OS X and Linux systems only.
Time Machine slowness with latest 10.7.5 update
UPDATE: Apple released a OS X Lion 10.7.5 Supplemental Update which fix the Time Machine slowness bug
After the installation of the latest 10.7.5 Lion update the Time Machine service had started to take ages even to make an easy backup. And when I’m talking about ages, I’m not joking:
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The Lion’s upgrade journey
With the new Mac OS X Lion out since a week I decided to upgrade my Mac Book Pro but at that time I didn’t know it will be a little long journey.
Experiment Necessitas: Qt apps on Android
Some weeks ago I read about the Necessitas project on the Qt Labs Blog which let you able to run Qt application on the Android platform. It was very interesting and now I’m going to try it.
My test environment is my Mac Book Pro with Snow Leopard.
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Compile PySide under Mac OS X
How to setup and compile the latest source code of PySide under Mac OS X
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SWIG tutorial for Mac OS X
In this post I’ll show an updated version of the SWIG tutorial to build a Python module on top of a C library which works under Mac OS X.
Some thoughts about Bazaar and Subversion
The December’s snow and the inability to reach the office gave me the time to explore the way to use an offline revision control system with our subversion repository. My colleague Pedro did some searches before and found Bazaar as the most interesting candidate for this task.
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Synchronize your Samsung Galaxy S with iTunes
Two weeks ago I bought the new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and after a full day spent to make confidence with the Android OS one big question comes in my mind: will iTunes detect the phone and synchronize my music library ?
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Remove “(from old mac)” files
Time Machine is a powerful solution to backup, restore or move your Mac OS X installation to another machine or just after a full reinstall of the operating system. The restore system is smart enough to put all your applications, profile files, and all other stuff which belong to you.
For some files and folders (for example MacPorts installation and XCode folder) the restore process, to be safe, renames that files or folder appending a (from old mac) string, wasting hard drive space.