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• 11.10.07 Path Finder, Lost and Found posted in Geekery

  This post was originally going to be about how I had decided to part ways with Path Finder and free up a little extra CPU/RAM for myself. There were some improvements in Finder that I was pretty psyched about, and I figured out workarounds with Quicksilver for a lot of the things I missed most about Path Finder. And then, tonight, a new release from Cocoatech brings me running joyfully back. I absolutely love developers who are as excited to stay on top of new technology as I am :). I’ll share some of my Quicksilver solutions in a second, but first, here’s what’s new in Path Finder…

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• 11.7.07 Safari (my new crush) posted in Web Design, Geekery

  Besides being enamored with all things Leopard, I’ve developed an intense and burning love for Safari. With a couple of exceptional plugins, it’s become my general web browser of choice. The powerhouse that is Firefox+addons may still be hard to leave behind for webdev, but for beauty, ease of use and overall integration (and awesome applescripting), Safari is definitely my new top choice…

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• 11.1.07 Man Alive posted in Geekery

  I just discovered Bwana while looking for something completely different. It can open and format man pages right in your web browser. I’ve found other utilities that beat paging in Terminal, but this is really nice. I’ve tried it in Firefox (man [manpage]) and in Safari (man://[manpage]) and it works great. If you’re feeling geeky or just wondering what the geek next to you is talking about, check it out. There’s nothing like a good, old-fashioned man page to put some hair on your chest.

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• 11.1.07 MY Favorite Leopard Feature posted in Geekery

  I would just like to take a moment to point out a new feature in Leopard that hasn’t gotten as much hype as a keyboard nerd like me would like. Backstory: I own 2 diNovo Edge bluetooth keyboards (and a Revolution MX mouse to go with each). I’d been relying on a location switcher that would detect the presence of the keyboard and then run an Applescript to switch the modifier keys (flip Option and Command) for the PC keyboard layout. The Applescripts relied on Universal Access behaviors to manually pull down the menus. Not elegant, but way better than doing it by hand. So anyway…

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• 10.31.07 Spots AND Stripes for MoodBlast 2.49.9 posted in Geekery

  Well, based on my testing, version 2.49.9 of MoodBlast should fix the initial Leopard problems while maintaining backwards compatibility. I eagerly await your bug reports. Cut, copy and paste are back for Leopard users. There are a few error reports I got that I was unable to replicate, and I’m hoping that building with the Leopard SDK will just take care of them. We’ll see. New version on the download page.

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• 10.27.07 MoodBlast version up: 2.49.8 posted in Geekery

  It’s mostly bugfixes, but there are some new options in the general preferences. And support is added for NetNewsWire. If you haven’t checked out the iCal integration, you should. I’m loving it. Visit the download page or use the “Check for Updates” feature in MoodBlast.

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• 10.25.07 MoodBlast and iCal posted in Geekery

  A quick script that can be triggered from iCal to send a blast with MoodBlast…

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• 10.23.07 FlickrMate Update (1.8.1) posted in Geekery

  FlickrMate has been updated to fix recent problems, version 1.8.1 is available on the download page!

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• 10.22.07 An iTunes Monitor for MoodBlast posted in Geekery

  A better solution: Proxi from Griffin has a built in iTunes monitor with lots of other fun stuff. You can just trigger a basic applescript on track change that sends “^s Rocking out to !itune”, replacing ^s with whatever services it should blast to. If you run “if player state is playing” […]

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• 10.21.07 MoodBlast with Applescript Goodness posted in Geekery

  MoodBlast now has Applescript support. That means you can use all of its functionality from any program that supports Applescript. If you have a program to monitor track changes in iTunes, you can use that as well. And you can blast from Quicksilver with this simple action…

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