Tag Archives: osx

Wine is Nicely Enabled

October 17, 2007 – 10:29 pm

Wine is Getting Good: “Anyone else notice lately how good Wine is getting?“ I haven’t checked Wine out in awhile, but I’m a big fan. I was using it to run Radio UserLand under Linux, about 5 years ago. (Wow, has it been that long?) I’ve kind of assumed that Wine would get [...]

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Vienna is now my weapon of choice for feeds

January 2, 2007 – 4:37 pm

In the last few days, I’ve switched news aggregators again – this time to Vienna. I’ve got a long, long, long history of doing this – partially because of my serial enthusiasm, and partially because none of the aggregators I’ve used so far have satisfied all of my itches. Some tie up my laptop in [...]

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stickis and subethaedit icon

November 28, 2006 – 6:45 pm

Update to the Update: The whole issue is corrected now! Update: In the comments on this entry, I got a quick response from TheCodingMonkeys and a quick response from Stickis. I didn’t expect either response, and was happy to see both. Nothing nefarious to see here, move along. :) Checking out Stickis from [...]

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Safari RSS database columns not so mysterious now

December 13, 2005 – 4:08 pm

The column names were inspired by the freebie game Monkey, Ninja, Pirate, Robot published by Atomic Sock Monkey. It’s fun! Try it!The fact that there are weird column names was inspired by sqlite’s (then-)inability to add columns to existing tables. So the last time I had to break the schema to add a new column, [...]

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More on ignorant feed handling

December 13, 2005 – 8:50 am

Part of the reason this whole must ignore thing with respect to feeds has me a bit fired up is because it seems like so few feed processing tools out there embrace this idea. And because of that, these tools are unfortunately brittle and prone to future shock. For example, take Syndication.framework on OS X: [...]

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SpotMeta fixes Spotlight for OS X Tiger

November 1, 2005 – 7:32 pm

I just realized that I’ve been remiss and have yet to mention Ben Summers’ SpotMeta. Remember when I was grousing about the disconnect between Spotlight and HFS Extended Attributes? SpotMeta fixes this disconnect. SpotMeta allows you to set pretty much any arbitrary name/value pairs on any file, to be indexed and searchable [...]

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Colloquy via Browser

October 23, 2005 – 3:02 pm

Am I the only one who’s a little scared by the fact that Colloquy’s getting a built-in web server web server plugin? I suppose it only completes the circle, since it uses a web browser for displaying chat messages.

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