Have GNU, Will Travel.

2007-10-28

Open Finder selection in TextMate

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.

2007-10-27

New MacFUSE with Leopard support

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.

2007-10-24

Plugin to export pictures as archives from iPhoto

Joey Gibson wrote a handy iPhoto 7 plugin that lets you export photos as zip, tar.gz or tar.bz archives.

Download it here.

iPhoto plugin to export pictures as archives

Joey Gibson wrote a handy iPhoto 7 plugin that lets you export photos as zip, tar.gz or tar.bz archives.

Download it here.

2007-10-20

Hack your 1.1.1 iPhone

iNdependence is a handy gui that will help you revert your iPhone to 1.0.2, then prep it so it can be jailbroken once 1.1.1 is installed.

Then all you need is AppTapp to get Installer.app, and you're golden again.

2007-10-08

iPhone 1.1.1 jailbreak!

3rd party applications should be back soon!

BSD level stuff is running again, 3rd party apps need recompilation.

Via gizmodo.

2007-09-19

Synthetic GPS for your iPhone

There's a Navizon application available with installer.app on the iPhone now. It triangulates your location based on known cell tower positions and updates the map on the iPhone.

Pretty sweet. (Courtesy iPodHacks)

2007-09-13

In other news, cold fronts moving in in hell...

Sun to Become Windows Server OEM.

Seriously, don't they remember what happened when SGI released windows boxes?

Well, their motto doesn't mention anything about not being evil, so I guess it's ok...

Nice blog entry on zdnet about how, even if you have a system explicitly set to not update automatically, Microsoft will silently update your machines with no notification or asking permission.

Nice.

2007-09-11

Extra Apps for iPhone

To sum up:

Installer.app is a UIKit based package manager for the iPhone. It works by downloading packages over WiFi (wireless networking) or EDGE. It supports installing, updating and uninstalling applications from multiple sources.

Very painless, very cool.