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Reveal currently open files in Mac OS X

28 Jun 2008

Something I noticed completely by accident today when I clicked on the titlebar of QuickTime Player today with the Cmd key held down. The “titlebar” is this thing here – I’m not sure that’s the right name for it:

Anyway, if you hold down the Cmd key (aka the Apple key), a menu pops up that [...]

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Try the new Mac OS X UI for Firefox 3

In: Browsers| Mac| Mozilla| Open Source

20 Nov 2007

The Firefox 3 developers have been working on a visual refresh that integrates more tightly into the OS, and the Mac OS X version is looking pretty sweet. Well, public opinion varies greatly – from people who feel that it’s a rip off of Safari to those who really like the Brushed Metal look (myself [...]

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What’s your SSID?

In: Fun| Mac

7 Sep 2007

After seeing this amusingly-named SSID, I thought it’d be fun to post the SSID of my wireless network at home:

The name is completely not my idea so I claim no credit – I stole it from my girlfriend’s brother, who conceived the SSID of “AssAssID”.
What’s your SSID and have you seen any amusing ones? Or [...]

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Adium themes use plain old XHTML, CSS and JS

In: Applications| Asides| Mac| Web development

28 Jul 2007

Just a quick note of something I found out while reading Transcending CSS: all the themes (message styles, contact list styles, etc.) in Adium are crafted with our old friends XHTML, CSS and JS. I opened up a few AdiumXtras to see for myself and true enough, <div>s and CSS rules make up the style. [...]

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Prototype 1.5.1 is baaaaad for Safari 1 and 2 users

In: Asides| JavaScript| Mac| Web development

21 Jun 2007

Read the bug fix announcement. Upgrade! This was causing extremely puzzling crashes in Safari on Macs (pre-Safari 3 beta) on one of our applications and I’m glad (in some ways) that the problem lay with the Prototype library.

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