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DIY Twitter image hosting

By Michael | Published: January 7, 2010
Twitter doesn’t yet come with its own inline image support, so we tend to be limited to using image hosting services, and linking to them with short URLs. So, services like Tweetpic host the image, and we direct traffic to them in return. Thinking it’s better to keep things in the family, and take better [...]
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Flash video cache on OS X

By Michael | Published: June 1, 2009
I just make a happy discovery: Flash stores videos it’s currently playing (eg. from YouTube, Megavideo, etc) within the /private/var/folders/.../ area. Access it by hitting Cmd-Shift-G in Finder, typing in /private/var/folders and hitting enter, then navigate around until you see something like a TemporaryItems folder – within will be a file called something like FlashTmp0, which [...]
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Keeping Flickr away from iPhoto

By Michael | Published: May 28, 2009

How to edit iPhoto's back-end files to forcibly remove Flickr albums from iPhoto, without the corresponding photosets being deleted on Flickr.

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Google Gears issues

By Michael | Published: May 11, 2009
If you’re running (or trying to run) Google Gears under Mac OS X and persistently receive this message: A Google Gears update has been downloaded. Please close all browser windows to complete the upgrade process. – It’s a problem with locks that never get unlocked. I’m not sure how this happens, [...]
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Finder toolbar scripts for better workflow

By Michael | Published: March 11, 2009
I recently found two Finder toolbar scripts which are really going to make my life easier. The first one, Open In TextMate, will open either the current folder, or the selected item(s), in TextMate. The second, Open Terminal Here (and icon modification), will open a Terminal window at the current path.
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Links for February 10th through February 27th

By Michael | Published: February 27, 2009
Links for February 10th through February 27th: TinEye Reverse Image Search TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is being used, if modified versions of the image exist, or to find higher resolution versions. Traffic Shaping in Mac OS X | [...]
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Website maintenance with Textmate and FTP/SSH Bundle

By Michael | Published: January 28, 2009
I tend to work on local copies of my websites, which have either corresponding vhost entries in my local Apache configuration, or are simply symlinked to my ~/Sites folder. That way, I can test to make sure everything’s 100% before I make changes live. This has typically been a bit of a messy workflow – [...]
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Unwired Usage Dashboard Widget

By Michael | Published: January 24, 2009

OS X Dashboard Widget to display current usage statistics of your Unwired account.

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