Category Archives: mac

Microformats Plugin for Safari

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

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Darwin Calendar Server

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

Posted in linux, mac, snippets | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Quick Look Folder and Zip Plugins

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

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , | Leave a comment

IconGrabber

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

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Top 10 Quicksilver Plugins

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

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Stacks Overlays

This is a great idea to improve the appearance (and usability) of stacks in Leopard. Stacks is pretty much Leopard’s only non-eyecandy change to the dock, and it had the potential to be pretty handy, but the fact that the … Continue reading

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Massive Data Loss Bug in Leopard

I’ve been reading about this in a few places now. Leopard’s Finder has a glaring bug in its directory-moving code, leading to horrendous data loss if a destination volume disappears while a move operation is in action. I first came … Continue reading

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Use Folder Icons in Leopard Stacks

Peter N Lewis: The Leopard Dock shows folders as a layer of icons, which is crazy for folders as you cannot easily recognize a folder based on its contents. Especially crazy when the folders have recognizable icons already! Of course, … Continue reading

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Use Leopards Quick Look From the Terminal

Useful info from over at the Unofficial Apple Weblog: TUAW reader Shaun Haber sent us a link to his personal blog with a great post about using Leopard’s Quick Look from the command line, which is wonderfully handy for anyone … Continue reading

Posted in mac, snippets | Tagged | Leave a comment

Installing VMware Tools on Ubuntu Gutsy

I’ve just started to play about with the new Ubuntu (7.10 - Gutsy), I have to say that I quite like it - I was a big fan of Feisty and all other Ubuntu releases previously, so this is more … Continue reading

Posted in linux, mac | Tagged , , , | 3 Comments