Quicksilver: Cmd+Escape
Just stumbled upon a gem from 43folders. Cmd+Escape lets you send the current selection to Quicksilver. So I can highlight a file in Finder, hit Cmd+Escape, and then have all Quicksilver's actions at my disposal....
Author: Marc
Learn Ruby through song
Courtesy of oddball Ruby personality Why the Lucky Stiff (yes, that's his name), here's a medley of two songs that he did with his band, The Thirsty Cups: The Parts of Ruby + Chunky Bacon.mp3 You won't get the "chunky bacon"...
htop: top on steroids
Like the classical "top" Unix system monitor, but prettier and with a few nice features like horizontal and vertical scrolling and easier to kill and renice processes. http://htop.sourceforge.net/...
iFolder: no, Samba: yes
Last night, Nicole needed to back up some important work documents on her Windows laptop. This seemed like a good time to look into iFolder, but I quickly noticed that they don't offer .deb packages and the instructions for...
Lisp: UnCommon Web framework now easily installable
A few months ago, while I was on a Lisp kick, I looked into installing and trying the UnCommon Web framework but I was put off on how difficult it was to install. Well, it looks like some folks have worked to make it easy to...
Useful tip on how to make bash check the window size between commands
Here's a useful tip on how to make bash check the window size between commands. shopt -s checkwinsize
PowerBook overtemp
Lately, my PowerBook has become narcoleptic. It goes to sleep even when it's plugged in and I've been using it actively. Pressing a key usually wakes it up right away but not always. I asked about this today on a Mac users'...