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Reality Jockey

Are you working at the Lovely HQ or another open space office?

lovely office

Do you like listening to music when working?
Are you sick of your colleagues (especially people like manfred) shouting at you when you have your headphones on?
Here is something for you.

I just added a page to download the RJ aka Reality Jockey application. The Lovely office is an open space office and we have a couple of people who are more productive when they are listening to music (bernd, armin, me, me, and me again) and we have others who are totally ineffective with music (jürgen, manfred, manfred and manfred again).

So we solved the problem. Using RJ you can now listen to your favorite music via your headphones and at the same time staying connected with the world around you.

Lovely people, get your headphones out now!

speed up your Apple Mail app

I found a good tipp for fasten up your email application in mac os x with an easy trick:

open Terminal
cd ~/Library/Mail
sqlite3 Envelope\ Index
vacuum subjects;
press Control-D to leave sqlite3

thanks to hawkwings.net for the tipp
http://www.hawkwings.net/2007/03/01/a-faster-way-to-speed-up-mailapp/

play flash videos (flv) in your quicktime player

Perian is a really handy tool if you have to deal with flash videos(.flv). With this Quicktime plugin you can simply watch those movies inyour Quicktime player.

With Perian installed, any OS X application that uses QuickTime can now use these additional media types:

  • Divx, XviD, FLV, AVI
  • MS-MPEG4 v1, MS-MPEG4 v2, MS-MPEG4 v3, DivX 3.11 alpha, 3ivX, Sorenson H.263, Flash Screen Video, Truemotion VP6
  • These formats when they are inside an AVI: h.264, mpeg4, AAC, AC3 Audio, and VBR MP3.

Perian - A swiss-army knife for QuickTime

And the best: it’s free (as free beer) and open source (licensed under GPL 2)

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