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OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

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	//PhantomJS http://phantomjs.org/ based web crawler Anton Ivanov [email protected] 2012
	//UPDATE: This gist has been made into a Node.js module and now can be installed with "npm install js-crawler"
	//the Node.js version does not use Phantom.JS, but the API available to the client is similar to the present gist

	(function(host) {

	function Crawler() {
	this.visitedURLs = {};
	};

	'use strict';

	/* Google Calendar API Module */

	angular.module('myApp.calendar', []).
	value('resp', {
	nullMethod: function() {
	return 'value';
	},
	handleClientLoad: function() {

	/**
	* This casper scipt checks for 404 internal links for a given root url.
	*
	* Usage:
	*
	* $ casperjs 404checker.js http://mysite.tld/
	* $ casperjs 404checker.js http://mysite.tld/ --max-depth=42
	*/

	/global URI/

	# you can make a text file of request times (in ms, one number per line) and import it here, or you can use a probability distribution to simulate request times (see below where setting req_durations_in_ms)
	# rq = read.table("~/Downloads/request_times.txt", header=FALSE)$V1

	# argument notes:
	# parallel_router_count is only relevant if router_mode is set to "intelligent"
	# choice_of_two, power_of_two, and unicorn_workers_per_dyno are only relevant if router_mode is set to "naive"
	# you can only select one of choice_of_two, power_of_two, and unicorn_workers_per_dyno

	run_simulation = function(router_mode = "naive",
	reqs_per_minute = 9000,

	// http://viljamis.com/blog/2013/prototyping-responsive-typography/?utm_source=Responsive+Design+Weekly&utm_campaign=76e7785581-Responsive_Design_Weekly_046&utm_medium=email

	$browser-context: 16; // Default

	@function em($pixels, $context: $browser-context) {
	@return #{$pixels/$context}em
	}

	import sys
	import subprocess
	import tempfile
	import urllib

	text = sys.stdin.read()

	chart_url_template = ('http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?'
	'cht=qr&chs=300x300&chl={data}&chld=H\|0')
	chart_url = chart_url_template.format(data=urllib.quote(text))

	{
	"auto_complete_commit_on_tab": true,
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Color Scheme - Default/Tomorrow-Night-Eighties.tmTheme",
	"file_exclude_patterns":
	[
	".DS_Store"
	],
	"folder_exclude_patterns":
	[
	"bin",

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