Monday, September 9, 2013

GeekTool CPU+Mem+Disk

Today I add a new geeklet to my desktop (http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/), it shows cpu+mem+disk and i needed it, because I'm tired to open Monitor application on my Mac.







I download the base version from:
http://www.macosxtips.co.uk/geeklets/modules/upload/attachments/CPUMemDskUsage.glet
And then make some adjustments to make it work with Lion and to improve performance. At the end the script look like this:

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Convert documents for Kindle with Calibre

To this day, the best tool i have found to convert documents to kindle format and upload them to the device is Calibre (http://calibre-ebook.com/), besides is a java software so it doesn't matter what operating system you have.

The most difficult case, a PDF document which have line breaks, headers, footers, lets see how its done: