Enhancements on yozy//NET

Gulf is now on GitHub

Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:19:37 +0000

In order to clean up all stuff I am moving the Gulf theme to a GitHub repository. Currently it is available for QtCreator and Xcode. A Vim port will follow soon-ish.

Restore iA Writer's background with this script [Update]

Thu, 10 Oct 2013 00:42:44 +0000

This is a very quick and dirty utility to restore iA Writer’s background to the pre–1.3.1 state. What it does is that it replaces these three images inside the iA Writer folder: backgroundPattern, tr-up-pattern and td-down-pattern.

The original solution was posted in this thread on the support forum.

Background fix for iA Writer 1.5

To use this script simply unzip the file wherever you like. Once it is done run the script like this in the terminal (it will be ran as root, you will have to enter your password)

sudo sh bgfix.sh

Updated to work with iA Writer 1.5 on 2013-10-10

Enjoy

This post was originally posted on 2012-10-24

Gulf color theme for Xcode

Thu, 30 May 2013 14:37:42 +0000

I have started teaching myself some Objective-C which also means that I have to use something else than my beloved Qt Creator.

As to feel a bit at home I have ported my Gulf theme over to Xcode. The choice I have made in creating this theme is to conserve all of the colours from the original (e.g. Types and Classes are greenish, while attributes are blueish).

Sadly Xcode does not provide different colours for global and local variables. However, all externally imported classes, types and functions are marked in italics, so you can easily know what belongs to you.

Here is a quick look at the theme:

And here is the download link, enjoy:

Gulf theme for Xcode

Quickfix for pogdesign checkboxes

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:11:17 +0000

I got finally fed up with the Unity-like checkboxes on my favourite TV-show tracking site. Quick roundup: these checkboxes are represented by a box with a grey checkmark when unchecked and a box with green checkmark when checked.

Not only is this horrible for colorblind people, it also drives sane persons nuts.

If you use Stylish extension for firefox, or some alternative for your browser then you can use this snippet to replace them with standard controls:

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);

@-moz-document url-prefix("http://www.pogdesign.co.uk/cat") {

 .lists div label, .day .ep label, .today .ep label  {
   /* bright background */
   background-image: url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAsAAAAsCAYAAACzBUKoAAABJElEQVQ4je2TscqDQBCEZyWPFiFgYymWKXyGvEEsfISAvdilFCEEJEXeIU0KO0vhlttcqpOY8POvRboMHNcMyzAfQ6fTyQVBAP+IaPqJCDM1TeOg0PV6dYExRuOFiCBgZpXZWgv1ZWZeaNbGWGQ2xiw0W2vVMWi/3ztP65XeK1X/VuM4Qo17t9upcOd5/j/uLMscoMC93W7d4/EA8IY7iqJZnDRNnbUWIjK1MZmNMdhsNg4A4jh2zAxmRlmW5M0rH4OZISIIw9AZYyAiqOt6qmOG+3w+k7/GzDgej7PePnB3XUfMjLZt3wr+A/flcvkw+hi0Xq/VuOl+v+vXfbvdVLiHYfite9KX111VlX7dfd/r110UhQr34XD4rXvSl9edJIka9xPBTXfNN90QEQAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==') !important;

   /* dark background */
   /* background-image: url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAsAAAAsCAYAAACzBUKoAAABJ0lEQVQ4je2TsY2FMBAF1+g6oAJSEpqgCEqhAwgogQpogYScyBkRBA6IIETyCuMfLQLj01+Cy86ShVYeW0+Mnui6zgZBALSFEOdXCAG31batBcbq+94GWmsOC8YYCBCRBe/7DuyXEfElzI3xCtZav4T3fWfHEEVRWLJ1tXe1Svtn2zZg687znKW7LMvvupdlsQAM3QQCOLqvB775oZuAKxiGoThhN4YPfMDXA9/80E2AC56wq9sHUgyRpilbt1BK8ds9jiNL97qu/+0+1x+3u2kafrvneea3u6oqlu66rr/rVkrx2j1Nkz2OAwAc3VLKW5xhGKwxBgh+6KYLUkqLiICIEEXR7+2mC9ZaiOPY3+4kSW7/yZ0fuglwwRN2dftAiiGyLGPr/gDD7TWBmCHgngAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==') !important; */

 }
}

If you use a dark background then un-comment the second background-image tag.

Enjoy

Elegant as Clockwork template for Apple Pages

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:28:59 +0000

Pages is a quite nice word processor even though has several quite stupid anti features (such as the page being stuck to the top-left corner). Nevertheless it is currently my tool of choice when I need a document with more than headers, lists and bold text, for which I would of course choose markdown. I have created my own default template, which you can of course download right here. In the zip file you will also find a document explaining all of the features of this template. You can see how it compares to the default style on this image:

Download the zip package containing the theme here:

Elegant as Clockwork v1

To install it, put it into ~/Library/Application Support/iWork/Pages/Templates/My Templates

US Extended layout for Mac with switched `/~ and §/± keys

Thu, 18 Oct 2012 23:02:03 +0000

The Mac keyboard layout is weird. Some choices Apple made when designing it are good but some of them really come from outer space. Why would anybody need a ± symbol on his keyboard is beyond me. Luckily Ukelele software provides an acceptable solution.

Personally I use U.S. Extended layout for almost everything. The only time I switch is when I have a very lengthy french text to write. (Speaking of which, why does french layout have a  character directly on the keyboard? Just how often would anybody use that?). So, in order to keep the layout consistent with other keyboards I have made a U.S. Extended+ version which changes flips the §± and `~ keys around.

Download it here:

USExtended+

A nice dark color theme for QtCreator

Thu, 26 May 2011 19:18:46 +0000

Last update: 2013-06-29 for Qt Creator 2.7.1

Staring at long lines of code can get frustrating. Even more so if the said lines have ugly eye-hurting colors. I have been using the beautiful MacVim theme in Vim for some time now and it is quite awesome. However QtCreator, which I use for OpenViBE development, lacks such a theme. This problem was easily fixed though. Here is a screenshot of a theme I have created and, because of the lack of creativity, named Gulf:

And here is the link for download:

Gulf QtCreator theme

Vintage effect Script-Fu for GIMP

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 08:00:02 +0000

Any self-respected hipster photographer must provide his share of vintage photos with helvetica captions. In order to make life easier for people using the Greatest Image Manipulation Program™ I have made a script which does the hard part. The provided script is based on this tutorial. Download the script and put it into your ${HOME}/.gimp/scripts folder (or its equivalent on your system).

Vintage Color script for GIMP

Some demos

Changelog

version 1.1

put the whole script into an undo group
replaced deprecated functions by newer ones - operating on items

version 1.0

initial release