Sunday, September 26, 2010

Rotate pictures in Mac OS X

Apparently rotate picture was not deemed to be a default action... Fortunately there are 3 ways of Mac OS X to rotate your pictures:
First solution (Stupid)
  • Create a folder and associate the rotate action desire to it... When you drop images inside this folder they will be automatically converted and placed inside yet another folder!
Second solution(Too much work)
  • Open file in preview, rotate image and save.
Third (even more work but you only have to do it once)
  1. Create a service to rotate images:
  2. Open Automator
  3. Chose service
  4. Search for rotate image action and drag it to the action list.
  5. Automator will ask if you want to also add the action of create a copy. Sounds good, but I did not find the option to create copy in current folder, so I ditched the copy action
  6. Chose which side you want to rotate to: left, right or 180º.
  7. Save and you're done, now you will have rotate image in the services menu.
You can find the here Rotate Right and Rotate Left. Just extract the files into $HOME/Library/Services/ and the service will be available when you select an image.

Bonus: Resize images

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Ikea is great

1. Meat balls, french fries and jam.
2. Daim tart.
3. Other swedish delicacies.
What else?

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Recipe for Tarte Tatin

Here is my recipe for tarte Tatin:

Ingredients:
  • 110g of Sugar
  • 80g of Salty butter
  • 1 packet of Vanilla sugar
  • Orange zest (0.5 to 1 orange)
  • Cinnamon
  • 4 or 5 Apples (sour apples work better)
  • Puffy pastry
Process:
Put the sugar and butter on the tray, take to low fire, mix the sugar and the butter to create toffee.
Add the cinnamon and the orange zest to the toffee, mix.
Place the apple over the toffee.
Cover with the puffy pastry, fold all around to create a crust.
Take to hot oven for ~20min.
Flip, or not.