Sometimes you just have to convert an iconset file to an icns file. And who knew, Apple was kind enough to give us a command to do just that in OS X! To use the iconutil command, run it with the -c option which indicates that the file will be converted. The -o indicates the file to convert a file to. Let’s use the myfile.iconset as the source file and then mynewfile.icns as the target file. The command would be as follows: iconutil -c myfile.iconset -o mynewfile.icns
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Powershell Goodies From Vexasoft
There are a number of features that make mass deployment of Mac OS X pretty easy. Some of these would be great to have in Windows. These range from systemconfiguration to networksetup and the ability to look at packages that have been installed and review their bills of material. Well, the good people at Vexasoft have built a number of Powershell libraries that, while they aren’t named as such, do a number of the features that these commands do, just for Windows clients via Powershell. And the best part is, a number of them are free. Let’s look at what some of these commands do: First, there are the cmdlets…
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pcastaction verbs
pcastaction comes with a number of verbs, each specific to a type of automation that can be used in Podcast Producer. These include: unpack – extract a folder archive before running the automation shell – run a command or shell script preflight – run a script before the automation postflight – run a script after an automation encode – input a standard video file and then output a video file using a different codec annotate – annotate a files metadata qceffect – run a custom Quartz Composer composition against a file watermark – insert a watermark into an indicated video file title – provide a title for the resultant file…