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AppleScript is broken in Firefox 3

Monday, June 2nd, 2008

Firefox 3 is in Release Candidate 1 stage. But it shouldn’t go out yet. Yes, there are improvements but I think there’s one big regression: its AppleScript is broken.
There’s two pieces of data that’s critical for several apps to get from Firefox: the current URL and the current Title. The […]

Today 1.0

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

A friend and colleague of mine, Justin Williams of Second Gear, just released his first Mac app: Today. It’s a fresh new look on iCal that helps you see your events and tasks for just today. It kind of reminds me of those daily desktop paper calendar where you rip off the page […]

Camino 1.6 released

Friday, April 18th, 2008

Camino 1.6 was just released yesterday. Since I’m a browser aficionado, I’ll be taking this latest release for a test drive this weekend. It seems like the Mac Browser Wars will be heating up yet again.

How to install a new OS X system update without regrets

Monday, February 25th, 2008

I just recently upgraded to the Leopard 10.5.2 update and I thought I’d share my short but sweet process on performing upgrades of OS X (aka applying or installing a system update) without regrets:
1. Wait a day or two.
Sometimes updates have an issue with them ever after extensive beta testing, people report bugs, and then […]

MacSanta is here again

Friday, December 7th, 2007

MacSanta is back this year! MacSanta for the uninitiated is like a big sale of Mac software from independent developers (who I like to call Mac Indies.) There’s different featured Mac software deals every day, all for 20% off, good for that one day only!
Today (Friday December 7th), we’ve got Hazel from my […]

TaskPaper - a review, persistence, owning your data, and how to send me feature requests and bugs

Thursday, 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 […]

How to make WebnoteHappy open bookmarks in Safari tabs

Friday, 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. You […]