Visor for OSX (Visor.bundle) is a lovely Quake-like interface for Terminal that I absolutely couldn't live without. Unfortunately, upgrading to Snow Leopard disables it.

Re-enabling it, thankfully, is very easy: Go to Applications → Utilities, ⌘-click Terminal.app and select Get Info (or press ⌘-i) and check the Open in 32-bit mode checkbox. Finally, start Terminal.app and you should have your beloved Visor back.

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Favicons, those little icons that you see next to the address bar of your browser, are one of those things that I can safely forget about for ages unless I'm launching a new site. Like anything else that I use rarely, it means that I forget everything about them by the time I need to create one again.

So, here's some quick information from my latest foray into creating a favicon:

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@drewm just tweeted about a very cool free utility for developers called Developer Color Picker (DCP) by Wade Cosgrove, courtesy of Panic (developers of, among others, the excellent Transmit FTP client for OS X that I own and love).

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Mogenerator is a very useful utility that creates model classes for you when working with Core Data. I've written about Mogenerator before but what I didn't realize is that I wasn't working with the latest version (the version I was using was 1.6.1 and the latest version as of this writing, compiled from trunk, is 1.13.1).

It's easy to get confused as there are several outdated downloads and project pages floating around the web. It appears, however, that this github repository is where Mogenerator is being actively developed.

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I can access T-Mobile UK WiFi HotSpots with my T-Mobile Mobile Broadband account (I have a 3G USB stick) but I find the signing in process rather painful. It goes something like this:

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