tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-107725912008-06-17T16:43:43.914-07:00jpbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17904401299771049072noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10772591.post-19162226517484821552008-06-17T16:40:00.002-07:002008-06-17T16:43:43.944-07:00

Jason Foreman published an Automator action that allows you to take advantage of Cocoa in Ruby scripts on his blog.

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My friend Jack is, among other things, a technical author. He's just set up a new site for his technology writing at http://jackherrington.com. His latest book is on Flex, and is being published by O'Reilly. More details at his blog.

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Tracks is a GPL Rails application to help implement David Allen's "Getting Things Done". I've installed it on my MBP and it looks great so far. You can tag tasks (and view only tasks for one tag), set up contexts such as work/home/misc and then view things grouped by context, set due dates, set tasks to only be visible after a certain date, view graphs and statistics about how long it takes you

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Bug fixes, speedups. More details on Eric Hodel's blog. Update with sudo gem update --system

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iJailbreak is a gui OS X wrapper for the ZiPhone utility. The 0.5.4 release can jailbreak an iPhone running 1.1.4 directly and is available from http://code.google.com/p/ijailbreak/downloads/list, and you can read more details from the developers at http://ijailbreak.com/.

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Suspicious Package is a QuickLook plugin that lets you examine pkg (and now mpkg) files from Finder with QuickLook. No more having to drop into Terminal.app and use lsbom. Here are the bullet points from the release notes: Added support for metapackages. Fixed problem where the actual installation location was not shown for some packages. Added indication when a package requires

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I got to see Matz speak on Ruby at work, and finally found the video of the lecture.

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Supports AppleTV Take 2, iPhone/iPod, Dolby 5.1 sound in mp4 files, many more new features. Only runs on Leopard, and download it from http://handbrake.fr.

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iJailbreak is an OS X wrapper for the ZiPhone utility. This release can jailbreak an iPhone running 1.1.3 directly, no more having to install a helper package onto an already jailbroken 1.1.2. It's available from http://code.google.com/p/ijailbreak/downloads/list, and you can read more details from the developers at http://ijailbreak.com/. There is currently no iPod touch support in iJailbreak.

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I went to Disneyland on Tuesday for a company trip, and while spending several hours in the park with only co-workers there was cool, what was more cool was the stop at the UCLA Energy Science Lab we made on the way back. I'd driven down with a group of coworkers rather than suffer through the airport experience, and it turns out Pete and Ian knew someone at UCLA who got us a tour of the Energy

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Grab it at http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16783761.

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iJailBreak 0.4.1 has been released and is available for download at code.google.com. This will jailbreak the iPhones and iPod Touch.

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There's a handy QuickLook plugin to show what files a pkg will install at http://MothersRuin.com/software/SuspiciousPackage/ Suspicious Package is a plugin for the Quick Look feature of Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). It allows you to preview the contents of a standard Apple installer package without launching the Installer. Just select the icon in the Finder and select Quick Look

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Great example of just what you can do now with computer graphics.

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Details posted at Google Mac Blog, direct download link is here.

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Saw a post on zfs-discuss today, ZFS for Leopard source & binaries have been posted to zfs.macosforge.org. This includes some new fixes over the one on ADC, but it is also bleeding edge - there's no PKG file to install, so you have to be comfortable manually copying a bunch of files at the command line with sudo to use this, and there are a bunch of known bugs (listed at zfs.macosforge.org).

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iTunesFS is a FUSE filesystem that lets you see all your iPods & iTunes playlists as Finder folders. Download it here.

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I started a new project last night, and decided to use rspec_on_rails. I was following some examples from Luke Redpath's blog entry and got the following error: SQLite3::SQLException in 'A player should be invalid without a user_id' SQL logic error or missing database I eventually tracked down an email from David Chelimsky on rspec-users that explained this could be fixed by setting

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QuickLook plugins for TextMate - there's one that lets you view source files in your project with TextMate, and another that lets QuickLook use TextMate to render syntax-colorized views of source code. Both are at Ciarán Walsh's blog.

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XX posted a free Quick Look plugin that lets you examine ZIP, TAR, GZip, BZip2, ARJ, LZH, ISO, CHM, CAB, CPIO, RAR, 7-Zip, DEB, RPM, StuffIt's SIT, DiskDoubler, BinHex, and MacBinary on his MacItBetter blog.

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Get 34 free tracks, courtesy of tunecore, at http://www.tunecore.com/freealbum. They're a specific set of tracks from tunecore customers, and I liked a few.

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Thomas Ptacek of Matasano Security posted a very good review of the various Leopard security features on their blog, matasano chargen.

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There are known issues with Unsanity's APE extension and 10.5. Remove it before upgrading to 10.5. You may not realize you have APE - Logitech's mouse driver is known to use it, and AudioHijack Pro's Instant hijack is also known to use it. If you are getting the blue screen and no loginwindow, you can nuke APE without a reinstall with the following steps: Boot into single user mode by holding

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The Pug Automatic posted a nice little applescript you can add to your Finder toolbar that lets you just click the button to open the selected files/folders in TextMate. Grab it here.

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Get it from http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/. The QuickStart guide is here. There's also a new SSHfs build for 10.5 as well.

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