Daring Fireball: BBColors 1.0

Posted on February 14, 2007 in General News, Hack

One feature still lacking in BBEdit which I’ve wanted for years is a way to easily save and switch between different text coloring schemes. BBEdit’s text colors have been configurable ever since syntax coloring appeared in BBEdit 4.0 in 1996, but there …

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How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

Posted on February 13, 2007 in Uncategorized

This blog covers one of the more exotic solutions - backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

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How Long Does It Take To Catch A Computer Virus?

Posted on February 02, 2007 in General News

In fact, after only 8 seconds, the unsuspecting little rascal was undergoing the machine equivalent of being turned into a "Pod person from the planet Mars!" First, it was hit by Sasser, one of the fastest spreading worms on the Internet. Then it started downloading strange programs from mysterious internet …


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Introducing the Hipster PDA | 43 Folders

Posted on January 30, 2007 in How-to

The Hipster PDA Parietal Disgorgement Aid is a fully extensible system for coordinating incoming and outgoing data for any aspect of your life and work. It scales brilliantly, degrades gracefully, supports optional categories and “beaming,” and is configurable to an unlimited number of options …

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Macworld: First Look: First Look: ModBook

Posted on January 29, 2007 in Uncategorized

Third-party modifications turn MacBook into a tablet computer - By Jonathan Seff

Ever since the Newton came—and went—in the 1990s, a small but vocal group of Mac users have clamored for a tablet Mac. At least to this point, Apple has shown no …


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Installing the W3C HTML Validator on Mac OS X

Posted on January 20, 2007 in How-to

Building a website is a complicated process, and testing your finished product
on every possible browser can be even more daunting. However, because modern
browsers such as Safari, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer 6 are compliant with the
World Wide Web Consortiums …

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Illustrator CS2 crashes on Intel Mac 10.4.8

Posted on January 18, 2007 in Fix-it

Adobe Illustrator CS2 crashes on an Intel Mac Pro running Mac OS 10.4.8 when a designer tries to use a tool on the pathfinder palette. This only happens when a circular path is involved. For example you want to Unite a round/circular path and a square path …


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Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2 on Mac OS X

Posted on January 17, 2007 in General News

Using Sun Java Studio Creator 2 on Mac OS X

Java Studio Creator is an easy-to-use visual tool for developing Web applications with Java. Designed for the corporate developer who needs to be productive and doesnt have the time to learn the details of Java technologies, the product combines the …


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MacNN | Google releases MacFUSE

Posted on January 17, 2007 in General News

Google today released MacFUSE, an open-source port of the FUSE "Filesystem in Userspace" mechanism previously only available on Linux and FreeBSD systems. MacFUSE offers Mac OS X developers the ability to organize nearly any data into a file system, offering support for most existing Linux-based FUSE …

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How to - disk recovery with ddrescue on Mac 10.4

Posted on January 13, 2007 in How-to

I had a dead, clicking hard drive. It would not mount so most repair utilities and Apple Disk Utility couldn't see the drive to repair it. Data Rescue II and DiskWarrior (even advanced recovery mode) would run for a while but eventually error out. dd_rescue (read third comment) is a …


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