Ever since Gruber linked to the new Mac OS X Automation site, I’ve been a bit obsessed with finding ways to automate workflows and tedious tasks I do on my Mac. With Snow Leopard’s newly enhanced services functionality, it’s much easier to do than ever before. One thing I’ve long wanted to automate was the […]
Archive for September, 2009
- Technical Document PDFs on the Kindle DX ✶
Matthew Williams shows off his Kindle DX for programming books:
The Kindle DX has finally made it worth owning a Kindle for the purpose of reading technical books. The native PDF rendering works wonderfully.
As I tweeted, I am interested in getting a Kindle or other eBook type device to replace the stack of technical books I seem to amass. I buy far fewer physical books these days than I used to thanks to PDFs, but reading books on a laptop screen is less than desirable.
- 37signals: The next generation bends over ✶
Like Jason Fried, Mint’s sale to Intuit really pissed me off:
Why should I care? Because I think it’s indicative of a VC-induced cancer that’s infecting our industry and killing off the next generation. I don’t know the full backstory, but I’d bet this sale was encouraged by a Mint investor.
- Check Off 4.0.2 now available ✶
I just pushed out Check Off 4.0.2. The update fixes some lingering 4.0 bugs that users were running into and should handle exporting giant lists much more gracefully than before.
- Fixing “Copy Address” in Mail on 10.6 ✶
Ken Aspeslagh offers a way to get back the 10.5 “Copy Address” functionality in Mail:
On 10.5, copying an address using the “Copy Address” contextual menu copied only the email address. On 10.6, it very unhelpfully includes the name portion, with < > around the email part, like “Joe Smith joe.smith@apple.com”.
defaults write com.apple.mail AddressesIncludeNameOnPasteboard -bool NO(Via Jean McDonald.)
- Nathan Henderson Improves My Amazon Service ✶
Nathan Henderson improves on my AppleScript-based service for creating clean Amazon affiliate links and improved it with Ruby and Regular Expressions.
Plugged In Season 2.0
For the past year, I have been spending a nice chunk of my week at the local public radio station, WNIN-FM, producing a weekly radio show called Plugged In. Traditionally, technology on the radio has focused listeners calling in with their computer problems for the host to fix. I always found that uninteresting and tedious.1 […]
- How I Do Beta Testing ✶
Gus Mueller:
Don’t bother giving out a beta with known bugs, or at least obvious bugs. Your testers are going to find the bug, write up a nice report, and you’re going to respond with something like “yea, that’s a known bug”. And now you’ve wasted their time, your time, and you’ve got a tester that probably doesn’t want to help out anymore.
Hi. I'm Justin Williams and this is my weblog. I am the crew chief of Second Gear, a purveyor of fine Macintosh and iPhone software.
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