Text editors are great if for no other reason than that you can execute a search and replace function. This little tool has saved me countless hours of tedious, mind-numbing text replacement exercises. But what happens when you need to alter several items outside… Read More »
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I do quite a bit of design and development with my company. To keep things streamlined I’ve setup my machine as a local development server to avoid the obvious hassle of having to FTP files every time I make a change that I want to… Read More »
This may not be the freshest tip for the Quicksilver-inclined, but I find it infinitely more useful than constellation menus and I think it’s something every Quicksilver user should know about. Using a handy Quicksilver plugin, you can access every menu item in the currently… Read More »
More often than not when Quicksilver is blogged, the topic focuses on simply launching apps or some other pretty basic use. But here on TAB, I’ve tried to show some of the more advanced features of this amazing program. Recently David at TUAW… Read More »
This will be a new thread where I’ll show a tip or trick for Cocoa programmers, and why it’s imporant to everyone. These articles will be geared towards everyone – not just programmers. I’ll hide the code so you don’t have to look at it if… Read More »
Before Apple disabled FrontRow with its Mac OS X 10.4.8 update, I was a happy FrontRow user on an aging PowerBook G4, courtesy of Andrew Escobar’s fine “FrontRow Enabler 1.3″. If you’re running 10.4.8 do not run FrontRow Enabler 1.3, and if you just did, do not… Read More »
The vast majority of us use word-processors to fulfill all of our document-preparation needs. It has become the standard in writing our letters, resumes, novels, reports and theses, and most of us have not seen the need to explore alternatives. Indeed, many of… Read More »
Apple’s products are often very focused on the consumer market, striving to provide features to allow you to manage your personal photos, music, documents and data. The iLife suite is a feature packed bag of goodies which handles anything you throw at it with style and… Read More »
After reading part 1 of this little series called My First AppleScript, you probably felt fairly comfortable fiddling around with it yourself and have probably tried to write your own AppleScripts. Hopefully your own AppleScripts turned out great and worked like a charm.… Read More »
Give me a community that agrees on everything and you might as well give me a fluffy pillow too cause it won’t be very long before boredom creeps in and I’m sawing a log. Disagreement, debate and non-violent conflict are healthy, entertaining and growth fostering.… Read More »
I’m not a coder – never have been. For some reason my brain just isn’t wired that way. But that doesn’t stop me from trying. I’ve tried my hand at everything from QBasic to PHP with varying degrees of success. However, ever since joining… Read More »
iTunes and its siblings make our digital possessions easy to organise, categorise and search. For years my paper life has lagged significantly behind the organisation that I imposed on my media, with important documents languishing in a drawer just waiting for some impending disaster to wipe… Read More »
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