I have reluctantly been using TextMate for a couple weeks. No text editor can ever take the place of Vim, but there are several features that attracted me to TextMate. So far I am impressed, and TM makes editing HTML and CSS a snap.
I will write about my experiences when time permits, but for now [...]
With ever-increasing amounts of information coming from every direction, and personal and professional lives that are busier than ever, it’s becoming more difficult to manage all the appointments, messages, notes, tasks, and details that are part of every day. If you need a little help, there are lots of well thought out web applications that provide solutions to many of life’s challenges.
Here’s five web applications you can’t live without.
My on again, off again love affair with KDE is currently off (but that’s another story). I’m once again enjoying the simplicity of Gnome, and the elegance of Nautilus.
The ability to graphically browse remote servers via SSH is great, but I found out that trying to edit a remote file chokes Vim. Apparently the netrw [...]
We just posted a new episode of the Mormon Potluck podcast. This weekly podcast is created by 4 friends brought together by religion, and a love for all things tech. Each week we talk about life in general, how our Mormon beliefs affect our lives, news, politics, and the technologies we love (or hate).
If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet, you don’t know what you are missing! Episode 2 of the Mormon Potluck Podcast is online now.
The Bash shell always amazes me. I needed to create a Maildir using the typical Maildir/cur, Maildir/new, Maildir/tmp structure and stumbled on this:
$ mkdir -m 0700 -p Maildir/{cur,new,tmp}
The -m and -p options are no-brainers, but the {cur,new,tmp} was new to me. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen… one command to [...]
At the end of May, I’ll be rafting down the Rogue River in southern Oregon. I am looking forward to what should be a wonderful adventure with good friends, and to seeing more of Oregon’s beautiful landscape. The trip deserves to be well documented, so I stocked up on Moleskine Cahiers journals and purchased [...]
After cleaning my laptop’s LCD several times with Windex, a fair amount of streaking built up, making the display far less than perfect. A quick search suggested a 50/50 mix of isopropyl alcohol and distilled water was the best solution for safely, and effectively cleaning LCD displays.
After mixing a batch, and tearing up an old [...]
I find myself often deleting a large series of emails from a rather noisy mailing list, while retaining some messages previously received. Since Gmail’s selection buttons are limited to All, None, Read, Unread, Starred, and Unstarred, I’m forced to press the ‘x’ key, or click a check box for every email in the series.
There is [...]
From the “Why Didn’t I Think of That” department: GMailSecure has got to be one of the most elegantly simple, yet useful Greasemonkey scripts ever.
When I say simple, I mean one line of code:
location.href = location.href.replace(/^http:/, ‘https:’);
This script ensures your Gmail session using Firefox takes place over a secure HTTP connection providing a reasonable amount [...]
