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I've never gotten into TextMate. In Xcode I use the editor included there and all other times, use BBEdit. TextMate 2.0 is still not here while BBEdit has been updated a few times since 2.0 was first talked about, so I'm wondering if people are still as crazy for TextMate or if, due to the […]

In bash… for item in *; do zip -m "${item}.zip" "${item}"; done

In incredibly limited testing, it seems to work really well. You can download it from here. I've tried a few others, but this one seems to be the best. I like the separation of source and location lists, but it doesn't seem to work. I've added "thesandtrap.com" to the location list and yet Flash will […]

Scott McNulty noticed that Apple has changed their boilerplate language to remove the bit about "igniting the personal computer revolution." On one hand, it's about time. Seriously, who cares about the Apple II anymore? On the other hand, I'm at least a little sad to see it go.

I have a fairly simple (though, apparently not) BusyCal arrangement. My main computer (Bunny) maintains a few calendars - "Erik" and "Kiddo" and "Chores." I share all three calendars over the LAN, and the "Kiddo" and "Chores" calendars are read/write while "Erik" is read only. Bunny's BusyCal also syncs with three Google Calendars with read/write […]

For weeks now my nightly schedule rsync copy would fail mysteriously, quietly. The command was simply two lines: /usr/sbin/diskutil repairPermissions /; /usr/local/bin/rsync -axq --delete / /Volumes/Roger In other words, I repaired permissions and then archived (which enables a few options), quietly, and deleted files/folders which no longer existed. But rsync would launch three processes, and […]

A few years ago I replaced the piece-of-shit ATI Radeon X1900 XT in my Mac Pro. Lately, following reboots and other things which cause the display to go black (I've not tried sleep), the display will remain black. The white LED is on, the computer boots normally, and the display simply remains dark. Rebooting a […]

Just a shout out to a good guy in the Mac world - MacRabbit rocks. I use CSSEdit nearly every day and Espresso is a great tool for web development. Give Jan's products a try and I'm sure you'll be impressed with the style and functionality.

The 10.6.3 update may have fixed the AppleEvents Timing Out bug, but one bug that's still around is the Spaces bug I described here. Essentially, if I use ctrl-1 to ctrl-3 to move between my Spaces, quite often the keyboard will stop accepting input (or the OS will stop accepting input from the keyboard) until […]

Steve Jobs is almost mind-blowingly, well, Jobsian in his D8 conference. The full 100-minute video is a free download from iTunes.

Courtesy of Super User: http://superuser.com/questions/52483/terminal-tips-and-tricks-for-mac-os-x. Some good ones in there, along with some goofy ones. BTW, opensnoop, cool.

I downloaded an application called "Watts" from Binary Tricks because I was hopeful it might help me to solve an issue I've been having with my MacBook Pro. Basically, my battery will get to about 75 or 78 percent or so, then shut down. Not go to sleep - just die immediately and without warning. […]

I'm digging the world of Safari Extensions. There's a good site at http://safariextensions.tumblr.com/ that's likely going to be the go-to resource ((Though I do wish they had more infrastructure so that I could, for example, compare one YouTube extension to the others to see if there's one that includes all the functionality I'd like.)). However, […]

I've recently come to the nearly final conclusion that the hinge in the MacBook is affecting the AirPort card. A loose wire or a loose connection somewhere is likely at fault, because when the screen is in a range of about +/- 20° from a right angle to the keyboard portion, the wireless signal seems […]

My wife's computer - a MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) - has recently had a hard time with the AirPort card. After waking it from a sleep once, she told me that she couldn't connect. The network settings said the AirPort was off, but clicking "On" didn't do anything. She's running 10.6.3. I tried creating […]