Tuesday, August 02, 2011
BBEdit 10 offers pre-release, fixing Dropbox sync errors with the Color Schemes directory.
Friday, July 29, 2011
A couple of years ago, I created three color themes for use with John Gruber’s BBEdit plugin, BBColors. With the release of BBEdit 10 last week, they rolled his theming functionality into BBEdit itself. If you were previously using BBColors, your themes are automatically recognized by BBEdit.
BBEdit 10 now provides a native interface to create, switch, and save your own color schemes. That sure doesn’t suck. I packaged all the older themes, U23D, Gentle Honey and Zen and Tea, along with four brand new schemes, inspired by the colors used in Version 3 to the latest, Version 6 of the 2A site (2Advanced.com).
Download the color schemes (.zip)
To install, unpack the .zip and place the contents in BBEdit’s color scheme directory; ‘users > username > Library > Application Support > BBEdit > Color Schemes’. (your ‘Library’ directory is most likely hidden by default)
Update: I’ve also been collecting several BBEdit Color Schemes and keeping them in this BBEdit-Color-Schemes-Pack github repository. Feel free to fork, add your own, and send a pull request.
Friday, August 13, 2010
I figured out how to run NPR and surf the web at the same time on the iPad. Multitasking, months before iPad iOS 4 is slated for availability.
- Open up Safari and surf to your favorite site (I chose my Delicious.com network page, great links in there).
- Buy an $8.00 radio from your local bodega and tune it to NPR.
The greatest thing about this hack is that you can continue to use NPR outside of available wifi zone’s (note: most iPad apps will cease working). You can also tune your NPR to MLB for the latest baseball game. No monthly, extra, or one-time fees required.
Friday, April 16, 2010
I don’t see myself using the iPad on the subway. I know it’s price tag amounts to nearly the monthly wages of the guy sitting next to me. Surely he can better spend the money I’ve wasted on this thing. I will however, use it in the park. While I’m often mistaken for the Greenpoint neighborhood native, Polish, my hip ass outfits are a dead giveaway that I’m really part of the gentrification. Why not add an iPad? As long as we’re not on top of each other in a tin can under the ground, I’m OK with people knowing that I make more money than them.
After just about two weeks w/ my magically revolutionary iPad, I’ll say that just like the conclusions Salon.com arrived at, I’ve been reading, reading, reading. Not books. I am looking forward to giving that a try though, as reading is really quite enjoyable on this thing. If only the iBook store had costs similar to that of the public library. Instapaper Pro is the must have app. I’ve re-tagged many a ‘toread‘ as ‘read‘ with afternoon breaks in the park. I also find myself actually finishing the editors picks in the NY Times Editors’ Choice app and very much so, admiring the photography in The Guardian Eyewitness app. It’s rare to read past the headline or take a minute to absorb, when a screen is involved. This thing has brought the focus back.
Throw in a handful of other great uses, like email for Susan, our shared calendars (yay for caldav), and actually deriving some pleasure out of the hundreds of photos we take weekly, via the photo slideshow mode… and this thing has totally replaced that large footprint laptop on the kitchen table in our teeny tiny apartment. So far, it seems to be the internet-enabled appliance we’ve all been promised since the dawn of the web.
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
Noah – Discover and document local wildlife / with the iPad comes the search for free .ePub books / One game, five platforms, all the same code / Aerial video with a Canon 7D / iPad GUI design template / Making the Future – Greg Knauss / A new look for Google Transit maps
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Sure, the Firefox web developer toolbar is fabulous for lots of quick information gathering, but when you need to go a little further it can fall flat on its face.
That’s why I use Xyle Scope.
Don’t let the safari look fool you, this most certainly is NOT a plugin for that subpar browser. It’s a stand alone application that lets you dive into your CSS efficiently & effectively.
Do you ever find yourself asking:
Where’s that extra padding coming from?
What selectors are affecting this H2?
I swear I overwrote this particular class…
Find your answers to these questions and more, get Xyle Scope today!
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Tabloid Wars episode one is available for free download via the iTunes music store. If you haven’t watched it and missed all the reruns, you might as well go grab it. While you have iTunes open, grab the recently deployed éS Footwear podcast too. You’ll be SO in the know that you’ll have it before the iTunes podcast directory even has it listed!
As del.icio.us users increase their activity, especially del.icio.us users who ride skateboards, these home brewed RSS feeds will only improve:
Skate Video (go tag some video files):
http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+skateboarding
Or any video:
Saturday, May 13, 2006
Just the other day I was thinking how nice it would be if I could get my library book due dates into iCal. The library already sends out automated emails reminding you when your books are coming due, that’s a pretty nice starting point. Surely it would be pretty easy using apple mail to setup a rule that creates an iCal event. However, I use Entourage. It wouldn’t be worth the switch, but was probably doable using Entourage and maybe some applescript anyway. I forgot about it.
This morning I was peeping all the links in my del.icio.us network, as I love to do, and low and behold came across a piece of software called Library Books. Ten minutes later, I’ve got an iCal Calendar reminding me when my Library books are due!
I don’t recall how I came across the particular user who added the link of interest, probably a blog I enoyed, but at some point I was interested in what the user was linking and added them to my network. Add enough users who share like interests and over time, the network will actually begin to reflect your very thoughts! Wow, that’s exciting!
Tuesday, November 29, 2005
Itunes enables you to subscribe to various podcasts, of course. A podcast is really just an RSS feed – get a feed w/ some video in it – and you’ve got yourself a dynamic, self updating, video resource. To hunt down new skateboarding videos for example, simpy add http://del.icio.us/rss/tag/system:media:video+skateboarding as a podcast.
The only problem is – there’s not that many videos tagged with skateboarding. At least not on delicious. There’s a few, & as delicious gains users, it’s worth it to add it as a podcast, but YouTube’s similiar feed (http://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/skateboarding.rss) is looking much better. Twenty new skate videos in the last 12 days, over 2,000 total. The problem here is, naturally, itunes doesn’t support .FLV’s; which happen to be the up & coming format for video on the web.
With all those ipods & itunes users out there – you’d hope apple will try & support as many formats as possible. They of course, don’t have a record for this sort of thing – so keep your eyes open for third party software, or keep your FLV’s in your browser.
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