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Installing RMagick on Snow Leopard / Leopard

UPDATE: After using this for a little, i’ve discovered that there’s a small problem with the install script, it does not include the ghostscript fonts (for use with ImageMagick) properly. I’ve forked the repository and applied a fix (http://github.com/dazoakley/ImageMagick-sl) - … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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