OSX: Toggle hidden files in Finder

By Stuart Colville in bash on

Here's a little shell script I knocked up for toggling hidden files in finder. Running from the Finder toolbar To have this to hand from within finder you can create an application in Automater. Just select run shell script and paste the contents of this script. Save it as an…

Full Page Screenshots in Firefox

By Stuart Colville in mozilla on

I was on the verge of installing a plugin to be able to take a full-page screenshot on Firefox. But then I realised there's no need! Simply open the developer toolbar (shift + F2) and type: screenshot --fullpage That's it!…

OSX: No Connected Camera

By Stuart Colville in video on

This is really just a note to self. But when you're trying to use an app that uses your built-in video camera on osx, sometimes you see the message "No Connected camera". I just had that and rather than reboot I did a bit of googling and came…

Samsung Galaxy S3: Where are the developer options?

By Stuart Colville in android on

I have recently upgraded a development device to Android 4.3 and given the revised Settings menu spent a few minutes looking for the developer options to no avail. Fortunately I found this link How to enable hidden developer options on your samsung galaxy S4 and the same instructions work…

Creating a Mavericks OSX VM on an OSX Host

By Stuart Colville in mavericks on

In case you want to try out some things on OSX without doing it for real then being able to create a VM of OSX can be appealing. Apple allow you to do this if you're runnning Apple hardware. The biggest challenge is finding a way to access the installer.…

Firefox OS: adb 'error: unknown host service'

By Stuart Colville in firefoxos on

When using adb -s to run commands on Firefox OS devices; e.g. for flashing/pushing files etc, some of our test devices (Inari) use the serial number used as the device identifier. E.g something like this: 11:22:33:44:55:66 This is a problem as the…