Justin Walker

WEB DEVELOPER, CAT ENTHUSIAST, FAN OF VINTAGE COCKTAILS, TRAVEL, AND BREAKFAST BURRITOS

Install AirPrint On Ubuntu Server 8.04

Apple’s AirPrint technology in iOS is great, that is if you have a special AirPrint enabled printer.  Unfortunately for the majority of us we already have a printer and have no intentions of purchasing a new one anytime soon.  I’m in that boat, I’ve been very happy with my Brother laser printer, but I want to be able to print from my iPad.  I have seen several paid software solutions like Finge...

Set iChat status to current track in Spotify with AppleScript

For years now I have really enjoyed the feature that lets you automatically set your iChat status to the current iTunes track.  These days, however, I find myself using Spotify more and more.  A while back I looked into this and found a few posts on how to do it, but it looked rather difficult.  Today I decided to sit down and figure it out.The script I came up works the best for me.  I was loo...

Better than an alias. Create a symbolic link in Mac OS X

I’ve been familiar with creating aliases in OS X, and they usually work pretty well for me.  Recently, however, I was working on a project where a friend has shared a root folder of a website with me via dropbox.  This folder now lives in my dropbox, but I need it to be in my htdocs folder for use with MAMP.  Obviously I could just copy it over, but I wanted to keep the working files in Dropbox...

Custom Screen Saver for Kindle

I recently found out that there were “jailbreaking” tools for the Kindle which allow you to apply a number of different hacks.  The one that I found most appealing was the ability to add your own screen savers.  Having jailbroken my iPhones before, I was expecting it to be an involved process, but it extremely simple.  Jason Fitzpatrick over at How-To Geek wrote a great article that lists all o...

iCloud - "There was a problem completing the backup"

For the last month I’ve been having issues with iCloud backup on my iPad.  The auto backups weren’t happening, and even if I attempted a manual backup, I would get an error that said “There was a problem completing the backup.”  After pouring over what felt like hundreds of pages, I finally found a solution that worked!  Here is the solution from this Apple forum pageI finally have a complete b...