Look, if you’re on a Mac, and you do any sort of text editing (html, programming, whatever) and you’re not using Textmate, you SHOULD be. It’s worth the price, I promise. (And there’s a 30 day free trial anyway.) Just a friendly reminder. =-)
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Best. Editor. Ever.
Saturday, April 29th, 2006Safari Backslash Replacement Bug
Sunday, June 5th, 2005Been working on some javascript bookmarklet code and found this bug in Safari (I’m using version 2.0 (214)).
In the href value of any anchor tag (link), all backslash characters appearing BEFORE a question mark character get replaced with forwardslash characters
this behavior manifests when: - you drag the link to the bookmark bar to make a bookmarklet - you copy the link to clipboard - you look at the link href in the in status bar
this behavior does not seem to manifest when: - you click on the link
Example: The href of <a href=”http://foo\bar\?baz\quux”>TestLink</a> goes from “foo\bar\?baz\quux” to “foo/bar/?baz\quux” – Try It: TestLink
Why does this suck? If you’re writing some javascript code that you’d like users to use as a bookmarklet, and that javascript code includes some regular expression with some backslash characters in it, your regex will get messed up when the user drags your bookmarklet link to their bookmark bar.
HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod
Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004For future reference (showing friends who don’t know how yet): HOW-TO: Get music OFF your iPod
Periodic MacOSX Maintenance
Thursday, October 21st, 2004For future reference: To run the periodic MOSX maintenance scripts easily, run this command from the terminal:
sudo periodic daily weekly monthly
Googbye Apple-Q Oopsies
Tuesday, June 8th, 2004Saw this post on Simon Wilson’s blog about how to remap the keyboard shortcuts of any OS X app. Yeah, I’ll be doing this, too. (And this didn’t go in Quickies because I think this tip deserves top billing, so to speak.)
MacOS X Critical Security Vulnerability
Tuesday, May 18th, 2004This will probably be on Slashdot and BoingBoing soon, but it isn’t yet, and it should be. In case you haven’t heard yet, there’s a nasty security vulnerability in MacOS X.
I read about it on Simon Wilson’s blog here, so that’s what I’ll cite. Though his post has links to other good discussions about it.
I expect Apple will issue a security update soon. Just wanted to let ya’ll know.
Quick, Google it, Safari!
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004I don’t think I’d ever use this feature, but I just discovered it:
Select some text in Safari, then hit Apple-Shift-L. You should get a new tab loaded with the Google results for your selected text.
Back to work…
PodPaq014
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004Okay, so I need a case for my iPod. So far, I’m leaning toward Booq’s PodPaq014. It’s got neoprene inside, ballistic nylon outside, leather trim, and a folding flap cover. At $40, it’s about at the limit of what I’m willing to spend on a case, but it looks pretty darn quality to me.
Anyone have any experiences with iPod cases that they wanna share?
iPod mini
Tuesday, January 6th, 2004iPod mini – I’m still happy I bought my iPod. The geek in me loves the fact that I’ve got tons of extra storage space on my iPod, in addition to my 6 gigs of music. It makes backing up all of my data super easy (it’s encrypted, of course).
20 Gigs of Love
Friday, November 28th, 2003Today the Apple store offered 10% off all music related purchases. Even though the discount was also available at the online store, I couldn’t wait.
Engraving: None Price paid: $360 Current Mood: Enraptured