TimeTrouble Mac OS
In this week’s video, I discuss time lapse video, those fast-moving videos that convert hours and days of activity into minutes and seconds of video. I explain two ways of creating such videos, one easy and free, the other more complicated and time consuming (guess which method I’ve been using).
As an easy-to-use time management application, timetrack for Mac performs well and proves to be a quite useful application. The program is available as a free application, but it does require. See the Supporting Multiple SDKs docs for more information on the MACOSXVERSIONMAXALLOWED macro. Keep these three things in mind: Copy only what you need. Wrap your declaration in MACOSXVERSIONMAXALLOWED checks so that, if an SDK is used that already contains these declarations, your declaration does not conflict with the declaration in the.
- Format: MPEG-4/H.264
- Resolution: 480 x 272 (iPhone & iPod compatible)
- Size: 12.7MB
- Length: 6 minutes, 4 seconds
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Show notes
During the video, I demonstrate how to create a time lapse movie using Gawker (the free and easy solution). I also demonstrate how to do the same thing using Evocam ($30) and QuickTime Pro ($30). I also include a short snippet of an older video I created, set to some entertaining music that fans of Benny Hill will instantly recognize.
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Few features in Leopard have gotten as much coverage as Time Machine, OS X’s new automated back-up feature. As you’re probably aware by now, you can start a Time Machine backup in OS X 10.5 by control-clicking on the Time Machine drive’s icon in the sidebar and selecting Back Up Now. For those people who use Time Machine in manual mode, this is a very important command—it’s the only way to run their backups.
However, this also requires that you be at the computer to execute the command. But what if you’re away, and realize you forgot to run a backup before you left? If you’re on another Mac, you can use Screen Sharing (or VNC from a non-Mac) to login to the GUI. But you might not want to run the full GUI for something as trivial as clicking one button in a menu. So here’s a Terminal solution you can use in an ssh session.
After connecting to the Mac via ssh from whatever machine you’re using, just enter this command in Terminal:
Timetrouble Mac Os Catalina
Press Return, and your Time Machine backup will start—the ampersand at the end runs the job as a background process, so that you’ll have the Terminal prompt back before the backup job completes. This hint may not be useful to everyone, but I always like to know if there’s a non-GUI method of doing something—just in case I find myself somewhere where I only have command-line access to my home machine.