Archive for October, 2007
Open Terminal Here, Open in TextMate and ISelect for Leopard
I like to go back and forth between the Finder, Terminal, and TextMate. Also, I miss the ability to select a group of items in a Finder window by some criterium. Today, I installed the Open Terminal Here, Open in TextMate, and Iselect apps into the Finder to let me do just those things. Check [...]
Using Flash in Dashboard widgets on Leopard
In a previous post, I mentioned that Flash in Dashboard widgets wasn't working well for me in Leopard. Specifically, I tried making one of my bunny widget via the cool new "Open in Dashboard" feature in Safari and I couldn't type in the input text field and the data exchange didn't work for me. Well, [...]
How to get Visor working with Leopard
I'm sitting at the gate at LAX, waiting for my flight back to the UK and missing Visor, the Quake-like Terminal window that I loved using in Tiger and which stopped working in Leopard.
Google and ye shall find, as they say, so I did and it turned up a little gem: Instructions on how [...]
Leopard makeover
After Tiger, Leopard looks butt-ugly to me with its Vistaesque (think "grotesque as only Microsoft can manage") semi-transparent menu bar, square screen corners, over-the-top 3D dock, and ridiculous default wallpaper.
Thankfully, the fine folks at Many Tricks have a tool called Displaperture that gives you your rounded corners back!
You can also run a quick [...]
Leopard: First impressions
I just upgraded to Leopard and my initial experience has left a sour taste in my mouth.
The installation was not painless. In fact, I had to restart several times as the screen that displays the locations that you can install Leopard into kept coming up empty. In the end, I tried saving the license agreement [...]

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