#cat-software

I have just finished my moreman tool.

Moreman assembles man pages for commands without man pages. It does so by utilising the help message most commands provide.

Great inside Emacs to view the possibly lenghly help of a commands in separate *Man* buffers.

After much reading and many trials and errors I’m finally quite confident about the situation of the PATH variable under Mac OSX Mountain Lion. So, is there a unified way to set the PATH for applications launched by different means (like shell script, Finder and Spotlight)? Well, yes and no:

No: Setting PATH in shell start up scripts (.e.g. .bashrc) works only for apps launched by shells.

No: Setting PATH for the current launchd process via launchctl setenv PATH <...> does not work for me at all.

Yes: Setting PATH in /etc/launchd.conf (and restarting the system) will make the appropriate PATH visible in applications launched by Spotlight, Dock and Finder. For correct functioning in the shell it is important to switch off the use of /usr/libexec/path_helper. because the default paths in /etc.paths might change the order of the paths in PATH.

The unfortunate consequences are:

No way to have these unified settings on a per user basis. (~/.launchd.conf does not work.)

"SeeThis" is a new iPhone app which creates panography-like images from a swipe with your phone!

I've been playing around more with Aperture 3: As part of my project365, the picture of the day exactly a year ago was this:

Using again the saturation brush I tinkered only with - well, of course - the letterbox. Do you like it black and white?:

Or colourful beyond every means?:

Yesterday I upgraded my iPhone to Apple's new iOS4! I had lots of trouble with this - and don't get much benefit, because my mobile is an old iPhone 3G it doesn't take advantage of the new multi-tasking, etc. What I do get is a very pretty wallpaper: