tell application "Address Book"
-- Go through each record.
repeat with thePerson in every person
-- A person can have multiple e-mail addresses.
repeat with account in email of thePerson
set emailAddress to value of account
-- Use Python to get the lowercase version This is less verbose than doing it all in AppleScript.
-- Set up to avoid a "privilege violation" error.
tell current application
set formatted to do shell script "python -c \"print '" & emailAddress & "'.lower()\""
end tell
set value of account to formatted
end repeat
end repeat
-- Save all Address Book changes.
save
end tell
August 3, 2011
Facebook is masquerading a program that collects a list of your running applications as a "Video Chat Updater".
On my Mac, I noticed a new file in my LaunchDaemon's folder: com.facebook.videochat.hunterford.updater. It seems harmless enough, but after perusing the file, I see that it runs ever 3 hours... seems somewhat excessive to me. Google sync services run every hour. Logging goes to /dev/null.
July 11, 2011
# Create a temporary directory for sources.
SOURCES=$(mktemp -d /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX)
cd $SOURCES
# Download the necessary sources.
curl -#LO http://www.ijg.org/files/jpegsrc.v8c.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/libpng/libpng15/1.5.1/libpng-1.5.1.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faad2-src/faad2-2.7/faad2-2.7.tar.gz
curl -#LO ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/mpeg/libmad-0.15.1b.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://liba52.sourceforge.net/files/a52dec-0.7.4.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://www.libsdl.org/tmp/SDL-1.3.tar.gz
svn export --non-interactive --trust-server-cert https://gpac.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/gpac/trunk/gpac
# Unpack files
for file in `ls ${SOURCES}/*.tar.*`; do
tar -xzf $file
rm $file
done
cd jpeg-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libpng-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd faad2-*/
./configure --without-xmms --without-drm --without-mpeg4ip && make && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libmad-*/
sed -i -e 's/-march=i486//g' configure.ac
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd a52dec-*/
./configure --enable-shared && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
# SDL won't compile on Lion
# http://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=7390&sid=62659329519f407daa486ec8a3ee2ba9
cd SDL-*/
./configure --without-x && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd gpac/
./configure && make lib && make apps && sudo make install lib && sudo make install
June 3, 2011
# Create a temporary directory for sources.
SOURCES=$(mktemp -d /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX)
cd $SOURCES
# Download the necessary sources.
curl -#LO http://mp4v2.googlecode.com/files/mp4v2-1.9.1.tar.bz2
# Unpack files
for file in `ls ${SOURCES}/*.tar.*`; do
tar -xzf $file
rm $file
done
cd mp4v2-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install
June 3, 2011
You must have Xcode installed with Unix Tools. Xcode 3 is available for free via Apple Developer Center. However, Xcode 4 is available through the App Store (free for Lion users).
# Create a temporary directory for sources.
SOURCES=$(mktemp -d /tmp/XXXXXXXXXX)
cd $SOURCES
# Download the necessary sources.
curl -#LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/faac/faac-src/faac-1.28/faac-1.28.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/lame/lame/3.99/lame-3.99.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/ogg/libogg-1.3.0.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://pkg-config.freedesktop.org/releases/pkg-config-0.25.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/vorbis/libvorbis-1.3.2.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/theora/libtheora-1.1.1.tar.bz2
# curl -#LO http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/opencore-amr/vo-amrwbenc/vo-amrwbenc-0.1.1.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://www.tortall.net/projects/yasm/releases/yasm-1.1.0.tar.gz
curl -#LO http://webm.googlecode.com/files/libvpx-v0.9.7-p1.tar.bz2
curl -#LO ftp://ftp.videolan.org/pub/x264/snapshots/last_x264.tar.bz2
curl -#LO http://downloads.xvid.org/downloads/xvidcore-1.3.2.tar.gz
# curl -#LG -d "p=ffmpeg.git;a=snapshot;h=HEAD;sf=tgz" -o ffmpeg.tar.gz http://git.videolan.org/
curl -#LO http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.8.5.tar.bz2
# Unpack files
for file in `ls ${SOURCES}/*.tar.*`; do
tar -xzf $file
rm $file
done
cd faac-*/
CFLAGS="-D__unix__" ./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd lame-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libogg-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd pkg-config-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libvorbis-*/
./configure --disable-oggtest --build=x86_64 && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libtheora-*/
./configure --disable-oggtest --disable-vorbistest --disable-examples --disable-asm
make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
# cd vo-amrwbenc-*/
# ./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd yasm-*/
./configure && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd libvpx-*/
./configure --enable-vp8 --enable-pic && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd x264-*
CFLAGS="-I. -fno-common -read_only_relocs suppress" ./configure --enable-pic --enable-shared && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ..
cd xvidcore/build/generic
./configure --disable-assembly && make -j 4 && sudo make install; cd ../../..
# For Lion, we have to change which compiler to use (--cc=clang).
# If you're building on Snow Leopard, you can omit this flag so it defaults to gcc.
cd ffmpeg-*/
CFLAGS="-DHAVE_LRINTF" ./configure --enable-nonfree --enable-gpl --enable-version3 --enable-postproc --enable-swscale --enable-avfilter --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libfaac --enable-libxvid --enable-libx264 --enable-libvpx --enable-hardcoded-tables --enable-shared --enable-pthreads --disable-indevs --cc=clang && make -j 4 && sudo make install
# --enable-libvo-amrwbenc
# FFMpeg creates MP4s that have the metadata at the end of the file.
# This tool moves it to the beginning.
cd tools
gcc -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE qt-faststart.c -o qt-faststart
sudo mv qt-faststart /usr/local/bin
June 3, 2011