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Tag Archives: Mac
Website maintenance with Textmate and FTP/SSH Bundle
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 – [...]
My latest iTunes iPhone playlist setup
A setup for iTunes to automatically select the 'best' tracks to sync with an iPhone or iPod, with help from Autorate.
A OS X service to encode HTML characters
I find myself frequently writing HTML code in comment forms which support use of HTML formatting, which means that I have to encode the html entities if I want them to show up (as in representing '>' with '>', for example). ... I used the always-useful ThisService app with a short PHP script which does a htmlspecialchars() on whatever's passed to it, to create a OS X service called 'Encode HTML'.
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Keeping iChat and Adium status in sync with Twitter
A script which takes the latest tweet from Twitter and sets it as the status message in iChat and/or Adium. Use crontab to run it regularly to stay in sync.
Also tagged Ruby, Scripts, Twitter 16 Comments
Replacing the existing Leopard PHP installation with a more complete version
The good folks at entropy.ch have packaged up a pre-compiled version of PHP to replace OS X 10.5 Leopard’s barebones installation. The entropy.ch build contains most of the good stuff that the Apple folks in their infinite wisdom didn’t see fit to include – entropy-phpinfo.pdf See the instructions at Entropy’s forum, or read below. sudo [...]
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Convert text to iTunes audio book
After reading a hint on macosxhints on how to create an audio file from text, because I wanted to keep reading my book while I was driving, and figured that holding the book in front of me probably wasn’t the best option, I figured the process could probably be streamlined a bit. So, I’ve made [...]
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