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• iSticky - Sending Stickies Around the Internet I’ve been using the Macintosh Stickies to keep track of things for years. It’s been my standby note taking application for 3 main reasons: free with the OS just start typing no need to explicitly ‘Save’ works without internet access I thought it’d be neat if Stickies could be shared. The folks behind iSticky thought so too. I’m playing around
• Introducing Tag Maker for MarsEdit I’m a big fan of MarsEdit, I use it for all my weblog posting. The other day, I was wondering about making any arbitrary text a Technorati Tag. The result was the Tag Maker Applescript for MarsEdit. It takes any selected text and appends a ‘(t)’ to it linking to the corresponding tag at Technorati,
• How To Install MacPorts, Apache2, Rails, MySql, Mongrel, and Subversion on an Intel Mac Now that I’m just about ready to deploy my first rails app, I thought I’d get the deployment environment set up rock solid on both the production and the development machines (one Mac Mini and one MacBookPro). Like many other tutorials on this same subject, your mileage may vary. In fact I’m writing this now, because
• Solving PowerBook Trackpad Dead Zones For about a week, the half inch on the far left and far right of my Powerbook’s trackpad were completely dead. Basically, it turned my 17″ Powerbook trackpad down to a 12″ Powerbook trackpad. These dead zones caused extremely flakey and erratic cursor behavior not to mention my mental image of the trackpad’s size was
• Waiting for Tiger in Roseville  Yesterday, Jen asked if I needed anything at the mall. I had already placed my order for Tiger at Amazon, so I was good. I decided to join her anyway, and stop by the other electronics big boxes scouring for a USB- or Firewire- powered 3.5″ hard drive enclosure. No luck on that yet, but