Author Archives: Dae

MODx Evolution: removing spam links

Posted on May 20, 2013 by Dae

My friend’s MODx Evolution based website was hacked and he’s asked me to help him fix it. Every page of his website was “infected” with invisible links to viagra webshops. The code of those links was as follows: <div style=”position:absolute;left:-2311px;top:-2794px;”><a … Continue reading →

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Looking for a mouse acceleration programmer

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Dae

The SmoothMouse dev team is looking for a pointer ballistics engineer person to work on pointer acceleration algorithms (and code).

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Concisest guide to setting up Time Machine server on Ubuntu Server 12.04

Posted on March 3, 2013 by Dae

How to quickly set up Time Machine server on Ubuntu Server 12.04 without using extra repositories, unnecessary packages and redundant configuration. Backing up tested on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard and OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.

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Word 2011: paste unformatted (plain) text with Cmd+V shortcut

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Dae

The following video shows how to assign pasting as plain text (without formatting) to Cmd+V keyboard shortcut/hotkey in Microsoft Word 2011 for Mac OS X. Note that it is not the same as “Paste and match formatting”, which first pastes rich … Continue reading →

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Accepting donations

Posted on January 22, 2013 by Dae

We now accept donations for SmoothMouse development. Please donate if you think that we’re doing the right thing. Donations are securely processed by PayPal, but a PayPal account is not required to donate. Simply click, “Don’t have a PayPal account? … Continue reading →

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Looking for programmers to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X

Posted on January 18, 2013 by Dae

We’re looking for programmers with expertise in systems programming to work on Mouse Movement Recorder for OS X (github.com/Cyberic/Mouse-Movement-Recorder, released under the MIT license).

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Two questions from the SmoothMouse dev team

Posted on January 15, 2013 by Dae

Two major questions about Quartz Events that we’re currently puzzling over: Weak performance of CGEventPost under GPU load. Detecting CGAssociateMouseAndMouseCursorPosition. We have a couple of ideas about (2), but clueless about (1). If you have an account on StackOverflow, I’d … Continue reading →

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Run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from TextMate

Posted on January 6, 2013 by Dae

I wrote a simple TextMate 1.5 bundle to run Python, Ruby, PHP, Bash scripts in Terminal without stealing focus from the TextMate window. It can easily be modified to run the language of your choice.

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OS X will never be the same

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Dae

SmoothMouse.com. Happy New Year!

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What to expect from SmoothMouse

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Dae

SmoothMouse is not typical software. It does not have a lot in common with desktop applications that you use every day, such as an Internet browser, email client or text editor. I think SmoothMouse can be somewhat described by the … Continue reading →

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