There are for sure some visually nice alarm clocks to use on OS X, such like the 3-2-1 Dashboard timer-widget.

But for real Geeks, there’s a way over the Terminal for activating an audio-visual reminder, using the following simple command:

$ leave hhmm
$ #f.eg.: "leave 0930" meaning 21h30
Alarm set for Mo 8 Feb 2010 21:30:00 CET. (pid 789)

This activates a leave-timer which will alarm you 5 and 1 minute prior to the given time, such as at the exact time. The date is always your current day.

To disable the alarm, you need to quit the according process using the following kill-command:

$ kill -s kill pid
$ #pid = 789 as in above example

As usual, you can read all details about the “leave”-command by typing “man leave” in the Terminal.

I wanted to have a shortcut in Safari, which allows me to instantly post the Webpage I am currently browsing to Twitter.

Thanks to the service TwitThis.com and the JavaScript-Code they use, I was able to create just what I desired:

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In Microsoft Excel ermöglicht die Funktion

=ZÄHLENWENN(Bereich;Suchkriterium)

das Zählen aller Vorkomnisse eines bestimmten Suchbegriffes innerhalb eines Zellenbereichs.

Was ist nun aber, wenn man die Werte im Zellenbereich nicht komplett mit dem Suchbegriff übereinstimmen?
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After searching my way through different Discussion Boards and the official AppleScript Language Guide, I came up with the following working piece of code:

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Urban Terror is a stand-alone modification based on the Quake 3 engine.

I use to play this from time to time with some friends, usually over the LAN when we meet somewhere. One of us guys does then start a local UrT4 Server, where the others can connect to and play. However, we often have had some issues that stuff like Voting or the map-cycle did not work or meet our expectations. Therefore I looked a bit into how to configure an UrT4 Server – and I will publish some of the main “Good-to-knows” here (most of it can also be found in the Urban Terror FAQ on their website).
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