find /Volumes/myvolume/mydir -name “.DS_Store” -print0 | xargs -0 rm -v

rm -rfv ~/Library/Caches/

sudo rm -rfv /System/Library/Caches/ /Library/Caches/

sudo rm -rfv /private/var/folders/

mv ~/music/iTunes /Volumes/IStorage/

ln -s /Volumes/IStorage/Itunes/ ~/music/iTunes

What we need to do is basically change metadata of files by adding type “MooV” to them , the simplest way to do it is download this applescript droplet i wrote and just drag the files you want fixed on its icon.

find /path/toyour/movies/directory -name “*.avi” -print0 | xargs -0 /developer/tools/SetFile -t “MooV”

Here is how to change metadata of files so you can play divx movies with itunes for example , with terminal and devtools

find /path/toyour/movies/directory -name “*.avi” -print0 | xargs -0 /developer/tools/SetFile -t “MooV”

, with applescript http://forums.ilounge.com/showthread.php?t=214705

Now that you can play those files with itunes how about having them show and play in Front Row from the confort of your remote , without even adding them to the itunes library , it is just a matter of making symbolic links in your ~/Movies folder to the directories containing your movies , you can use the shell or just alt+cmd drag them to ~/Movies to make the links.

If yo do not know by now you can download movies from youtube just by selecting the file in Safari > Activity > Copy > Paste into downloads window.

How about playing every movie format there is including the flash movies you just downloaded from youtube in anything you like , quicktime , itunes , frontrow etc , well then just download http://perian.org/ and never care about formats of movies ever again.

To top it off i have a script for those times when you do want to know what are your movie files encoded with , this is a extremely fast shell script , with basic info , you can get it packaged as a osx app to drag folders to or directly as a cross-platform script.

However back then in 99 when looking for a method of automating the calculation of my monthly online time from my dialup provider’s access logs , a task for which ASM just wouldn’t cut it , i had no other choice but to assume this thing about perl and data manipulation as the truth and have a go at the language without knowing for certain.

Today after quite a while and many data manipulation scripts , and quite coincidentally for the purpose of calculating the total downtime of my isp from my server’s access logs , i can not feel but pleased with the power you have with perl and it’s data manipulation drive , so i felt like evoking this wonderful side of perl myself too.

Now as to not make this article a dry reading , and because probably nobody likes staring at a program execution with no progress display for hours on end , or not even minutes , i am going to explain 2 simple progress display trick for your perl scripts.

Roughly the trick consists in using \r (carriage return) to write over the same line over and over, while also disabling output buffering where it is the case

The first example below is the simpler one , but memory buffers are sacrificed for this and do not use this example for files bigger than some dozens of megabytes or loading times will be drastic and memory usage intensive , that aside this should not present any other speed decreases given you write your script in a speed conscious manner.

use POSIX;
#disable output buffering
$| = 1;

open (INFILE,”< $infile”) or die “$infile file not found”;
@data=<INFILE>;
foreach $a (@data){
$proc = floor((($#data – $.) / $#data) * 100);
print “$. more lines to process ($proc% processed)\r”;
$.–;
}

In this second script we are not buffering the whole file into memory , so loading speeds will be great even tho’ we have to use a function to count the total line number of the file with clines() before starting to process it

use POSIX;
#disable output buffering
$| = 1;

#reading line length
print “Reading $infile….”;
$lines = clines($infile);
print “done ($lines lines)\n”;

#processing data
open (INFILE,”< $infile”) or die “$infile file not found”;
$out = 0;
while(<INFILE>) {
$proc = floor(($out / $lines) * 100);
print $lines-$out.” more lines to process ($proc% processed)\r”;
$out++;
}
sub clines {
my ($filename) = @_;
$lines = 0;
open(FILE, $filename) or die “Can’t open `$filename’: $!”;
while (sysread FILE, $buffer, 4096) {
$lines += ($buffer =~ tr/\n//);
}
close FILE;
return $lines
}

the bad part with the adfree search is that you do not have a advanced search option

however you can put manually the options in the url like this
http://www.google.com/ie?num=100

the url above for example shows 100 finds per page and to not have to write all the options every time you can make it your homepage like i do

Google in english indiferent of the country you are in
http://www.google.com/ncr

External tools:

Poodle from gritechnologies can help in search engine optimization
http://www.gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go

This interesting script at http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html claims to show you how google is broken and what results it fails to show/rate like it should

http://www.mypagerank.net/ can show you the google pagerank for a specific site

http://www.soople.com is also a extension of google , better put , some kind of a gui for some of the google functions i detail below

Special searches :

you enter for example “phonebook:mancini ca” in a google search box and you can access it’s phonebook listing

phonebook:nameaddress shows phonebook entry of person
define:word gives definition of any word
related:url same as “what’s related” on serps.
link:url Shows other pages with links to that url.
site:domain restricts search results to the given domain.
allinurl:url shows only pages with all terms in the url.
inurl: like allinurl, but only for the next query word.
allintitle: shows only results with terms in title.
intitle: similar to allintitle, but only for the next word. “intitle:webmaster google” finds only pages with webmaster in the title, and google anywhere on the page.
cache:url will show the Google version of the passed url.
info:url will show a page containing links to related searches, backlinks, and pages containing the url. This is the same as typing the url into the search box.
spell: will spell check your query and search for it.
stocks: will lookup the search query in a stock index.
filetype: will restrict searches to that filetype. “-filetype:doc” to remove Microsoft word files.
daterange: is supported in Julian date format only. 2452384 is an example of a Julian date.
maps: If you enter a street address, a link to Yahoo Maps and to MapBlast will be presented.
phone: enter anything that looks like a phone number to have a name and address displayed. Same is true for something that looks like an address (include a name and zip code)
site:www.somesite.net “+www.somesite.+net” (tells you how many pages of your site are indexed by google)
allintext: searches only within text of pages, but not in the links or page title
allinanchor: searches only within links, not text or title