Monthly Archives: November 2007

Microformats Plugin for Safari

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Daz

I’m a fan of the Tails plugin for Firefox… Now Safari (on Leopard) gets its own Microformats Plugin! Of course, in order to take advantage of Microformats and perhaps bring the information they offer onto your system, you need a … Continue reading →

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Google Maps for Mobile Adds Positioning

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Daz

Sounds like a good new feature… Google is set on Wednesday to launch a new feature in its Google Maps for Mobile program that automatically sets your location even in phones that lack a global positioning system (GPS) device. Until … Continue reading →

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Color Wizard - Colour Scheme Generator

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Daz

Color Wizard is an online colour scheme generator. There are many of these kind of tools around, but I quite like interface on this one. The randomise feature is also quite useful. via

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Darwin Calendar Server

Posted on November 29, 2007 by Daz

At the moment I’m a very happy user of Google calendar and Spanning Sync for all my scheduling needs. But the geek in me fancies playing about with things so I’m thinking about setting up a CalDav server (when time … Continue reading →

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Quick Look Folder and Zip Plugins

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Daz

This is yet another example of why I want to upgrade to Leopard… Quick Look is a beautiful thing, and in my view practically itself worth the cost of admission to Leopard. Unfortunately, the more you get used to it, … Continue reading →

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IconGrabber

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Daz

IconGrabber is a useful little application for getting an OS X applications icon for use on the web. It’s also available as a Quicksilver plugin. It couldn’t be easier. Just drop the file or folder that you want the icon … Continue reading →

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Ack, a Grep Replacement

Posted on November 27, 2007 by Daz

Ack is a grep alternative, written in pure Perl, using Perl’s regular expressions to do your searches (just one of the long list of reasons to use this over grep). I think i’ll be using this then… ack is a … Continue reading →

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Getting Gmail IMAP Running Nicely

Posted on November 19, 2007 by Daz

I’ve just managed to get my Gmail service upgraded to the new version with IMAP support,1 and as such i’ve been trawling the net for information on how to get this all set-up nicely. By this I mean moving my … Continue reading →

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Top 10 Quicksilver Plugins

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Daz

I love Quicksilver, it’s one of those applications that makes working on the Mac really really great. Lifehacker has a quick rundown on 10 of the best plugins to help improve your Quicksilver experience: Open source Mac utility Quicksilver isn’t … Continue reading →

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CSS Styled Tables

Posted on November 18, 2007 by Daz

Veerle comes up with another look at styling tables with CSS. A great read. In 2005 I wrote an article about styling a table with CSS. After receiving so many requests I finally decided to give in and write another … Continue reading →

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