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Yearly Archives: 2007
ThisSpace
One of the first things that happened to me in Spaces that irked me was its auto-switching to another space when I didn’t want it to. Sure, that’s probably what I’d want it to do a lot of the time, … Continue reading
iTerm/TextMate Here
Yes, again. Inspired by other solutions to the same problems, here are updated versions of these scripts. The primary difference is that they’re based on Apple’s droplet sample, so you can either click on them (for the current directory) or … Continue reading
More Little Things
The Dock is way too fucking dark. The glass shelf doesn’t thrill me either, but at least it’s a subtle eyesore. Holy crap Spotlight is faster. I used to use Google Desktop based solely on its speed — now it actually … Continue reading
The Little Things
Having played around with Leopard for about a day now, here are some of the little details I’ve noticed: Arrows no longer wrap the selected app in the app switcher; if you wanted to switch to the last app in … Continue reading
Leopard Open Source
I hadn’t seen any mention of this yet when I started my Leopard upgrade, but Apple has added the source code for the open-source parts of Leopard on the Darwin source site. And yes, Virginia, that includes the kernel.
Later that year…
A while back, John Gruber posted a FastScripts script to fix a loathsome Apple Mail behavior, which was shortly followed by signature-enabled improvements. Fourteen short weeks later, here’s my own version: tell application “Mail” to activate tell application “System Events” … Continue reading
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TextMate Here
That was actually the first post in a series (of two). This one opens a new TextMate window on the selected item (if there’s a single item selected), or the current folder otherwise. This makes the script a lot shorter … Continue reading
iTerm Here
This is, for lack of a better description, my version of the Open a Command Window Here Windows XP PowerToy. I’ve played around with doing this from the context menu, but I eventually decided I’m not fond of that approach. … Continue reading
Updates
Okay, I rebuilt the site again. Since I didn’t just copy the theme over, there will likely be some formatting quirks. On the plus side, since Wordpress is one-click installed now, hopefully we can stop counting the lag between Erwin … Continue reading