Archive for December 2008
IM Status Applescript for iChat Adium and Skype
19 Dec 2008I use iChat, Adium and Skype all at the same time. I was looking for a quick way to change the status of all three of them with one fell swoop.
Looking at what other people had written I came across a [good example at Jason Kenison’s blog][1]. He had implemented a method whereby you select Away or Available and then the script will change the status of all three. It worked for Skype and iChat but not for Adium.
Using your MacBookPro to PXEBoot OpenBSD
07 Dec 2008This post does not show a successful outcome in case that’s what you where hoping for.
I was trying to get OpenBSD bootstrapped using the PXEBoot NIC in a server. I decided to use my Mac which has tftp and bootpd installed. This post is quite in depth and technical so if you are game then read on.
WordPress 2.7 RC1 on iPhone
06 Dec 2008Now that I am using wordpress 2.7, I thought it would be good to test the iPhone app for wordpress. This is written on the app itself. I would say that although useful it seems to be more favorable to blog from a computer. The iPhone is suited to short spurts of typing, more on the realms of SMS or twitter.
The capability of quickly adding photos and the tag/category functionality seems full featured, as shown by a photo of my dinner I made from Cook with Jamie.
Translation for the Mac by Kavasoft
05 Dec 2008About 24 months ago I purchased a version of KavaSoft’s Translation Service application for the Mac. With the recent move from my old Powerbook to my new MacBookPro the application stopped working. Apparently the licence is tied not just to your purchase but to the computer you installed it on.
As I had used the Apple migration tool to move everything across to the new laptop, Translation Service stopped working. I dropped an email to the developer and literally got an email response 60 minutes later with an updated licence.
WordPress 2.7 RC1
04 Dec 2008I’m lagging so far behind on wordpress that I’m probably breaking all the security rules.
So in an effort to be more proactive in online open-source communities I’m giving WordPress V2.7 Release Candidate 1 a whirl. Looking forward to the new Admin UI.
Does anyone else ride the bleeding edge when it comes to tech blogging?
Edit: The upgrade worked. 2.7 RC1 even worked with all my 2.3 plugins straight up!
Fix for loud clicking MacBookPro trackpad
04 Dec 2008I love the new MacBookPro, but the trackpad clicks so loud that people on public transport stare at me. I’m not the only one with the issue.
An enterprising user on the Apple Discussion forums remembers a similar problem and fix for the trackpad from earlier MacBook models. The fix in this case involves removing your battery and sticking a piece of paper between the pad and the chassis. It works, and here is my solution captured at the moment of repair:
Switching to multi-line mode using Textmate Regex
02 Dec 2008So you have a pattern you want to match across multiple lines, and you have a regular expression that matches it.
You will probably be used to doing this in perl like this:
/some.+?stuff/s
or using regex in ruby like this:
/some.+?stuff/m
However you have just started to get used to Textmate as an editor and you see it supports regex matching. Why though does it not use /s or /m for multi-line dot matching?