Archives for November, 2007

If WebnoteHappy shortcuts sometimes don’t work on Leopard… November 29th, 2007

WebnoteHappy’s shortcut keys sometimes don’t seem to work on Leopard. By default, these are Command-Shift-D for Add, F5 for Quick Add, and Command-Shift-Space for Search. There seems to be a simple workaround for this: Choose the menu item WebnoteHappy > Preferences… Click on the Shortcuts toolbar button For each of the Hotkeys (the other word …

10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard November 23rd, 2007

Since yesterday was Thanksgiving here in the US, I thought I’d share 10 things I’m thankful for in Leopard. If you don’t unmount a file share before you leave a network, Finder doesn’t lock up liked it used to in Tiger Safari 3 – so many things to like about it – its faster, improved …

TaskPaper – a review, persistence, owning your data, and how to send me feature requests and bugs November 22nd, 2007

I was driving up Interstate 95 coming back from Charlotte, NC, the site of RubyConf 2007 when I bought TaskPaper. Well actually my wife was driving while I was engaged on my MacBook Pro + EVDO. I think TaskPaper is quite a good task manager because it is simple yet still helps keep you organized. …

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1- what’s good and what could be improved for us Mac users November 20th, 2007

Firefox 3.0 Beta 1 came out today. Being a browserista (aka a browser-fanatic), I downloaded and played with it. It has some interesting new things like a Mac OS X theme that you can download. Here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with the default theme on Leopard: And here’s a snapshot of Firefox 3 with …

How to have Camino use tabs when other apps want to open a URL November 17th, 2007

In the first installment of this series, I covered “How to make WebnoteHappy open bookmarks in Safari tabs.” Now we’ll cover how to do the same for Camino. Remember, that this will actually work for any application that opens URLs and that on Mac OS X, the browser has the ultimate control over whether a …

How to make WebnoteHappy open bookmarks in Safari tabs November 16th, 2007

sjk wrote on iusethis about WebnoteHappy: Right now my top request for this app would be an “Open selected items in browser tab” command, with a preference to warn if attempting to open over an N item limit. Currently, in WebnoteHappy 1.3.1, you can select multiple bookmarks and then open them in your default browser. …

The mysteries of the Mac OS X tab cycle November 8th, 2007

I was working on a reported bug in WebnoteHappy – sometimes you cannot tab everywhere. That is, you can start out with the Source List with the Library and your folders and then you go to the Search Field. From here, you hit tab again and you go the Bookmark List and then to the …

WebnoteHappy 1.3.1 is here November 6th, 2007

I just released WebnoteHappy 1.3.1. What’s new? Improved Leopard compatibility. More keyboard shortcuts. You can turn off the deletion warning. Here’s the full release notes: Leopard fix: Empty tags field no longer shows an empty bubble Leopard fix: Focus in the tags field enables menu items and toolbar buttons properly New shortcut: Enter now opens …