OS X

Dear Finder,
can you please tell me which copy operation failed?

Finder message that conceals vital information

I had multiple copy operations running in parallel and one of them failed. But which?

I had to remember the files I wanted to copy and manually check which of them had made it the target drive…

Sometimes you need access to filesystems that are not natively supported by your operating system. For example when you need to access an weirdly formatted external drive.

To integrate support for a new filesystem, you normally need special binary drivers that are loaded into your kernel. This usually involves a reboot and some security issues, as the filesystem driver runs with the same privileges as the kernel itself.

But wait. FUSE is a convenient alternative to kernel-based filesystem drivers. FUSE stands for “Filesystem in Userspace” and makes installing, using, and developing filesystems really easy.

Woopra is a website analysis service that allows webmasters to monitor various statistics, and track and interact with individual users in real-time. This article covers how the Woopra client can be installed on some unsupported plattforms.

While installing the server side installation is easy as pie and done by inserting some lines of HTML in the site template, installing the Woopra client can be tricky. At least on Linux or OS X boxes.

Every current television show is available on BitTorrent and most of the .torrent's are syndicated via RSS-feeds. TVShows was a great application that hid all the RSS stuff and allowed easy show subscription with some mouse clicks.

Regrettably it doesn't function any longer, as it is blocked by its feeder websitebut I don't know exactly why. For some people -- like me -- it stopped working, for others it's still working fine. .

Several people have asked me if the dict.cc Dictionary.App Plugin will update itself and how often new releases will be published.

Answering the first question is easy: The plugin does not and probably will not contain an automatic update mechanism. In contrast to applications, that can actively look out for updates, this plugin is basically a bunch of static HTML files without any own intelligence. That’s the downside of fitting perfectly into many OS X services (Have you tried Ctrl+Command+"D" on a selected word yet?) .

However, I’ve set up a newsletter that you can subscribe^* to. I will sporadically update the plugin and post a quick note to all subscribers.

^*I hate Spam as much as you do. Therefore I will not distribute your email addresses and I will not spam you. I promise.