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OS X service to filter selected text through a shell command

By Michael | Published: May 23, 2010

The UNIX shell provides a host of extremely useful utilities for modifying text. This Automator service makes all of them available for filtering text in all OS X applications.

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Browsing Core Data databases using F-Script

By Michael | Published: April 10, 2010

F-Script's new Core Data browser lets you open up and query any Core Data database, an invaluable debugging tool. Actually opening databases is a lengthy process through. No longer: This Applescript app provides an easy interface to quickly open a Core Data database in F-Script's object browser.

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Searching through Subversion history

By Michael | Published: March 9, 2010
Occasionally I need to search back through old versions of projects to find a piece of code I want to resurrect or just use as reference — I haven’t found any easy built-in way to do this, so I adapted this useful script to allow me to grep through all history from within a Subversion [...]
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Using custom DNS servers from the iPhone and over Internet Tethering

By Michael | Published: January 24, 2010
For those of us the roam around on network connections, OpenDNS and Google Public DNS provide public DNS servers which offer better security than using arbitrary DNS that’s assigned to us when we connect to a network. This means that rather than trusting the assigned DNS server — which could be a malicious third party [...]
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Textmate: ‘git diff’ in FileMerge

By Michael | Published: January 4, 2010
I found myself wanting to pick through some changes I made under a git repository recently, discarding some and adapting others. The FileMerge utility that comes with the Mac OS X Developer Tools is great for this purpose, but in TextMate, there’s currently no way to compare uncommitted changes in a git repository using FileMerge. [...]
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Align comments in Textmate

By Michael | Published: March 27, 2009

A Textmate command script to align comments in a block

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Facebook News Feed RSS

By Michael | Published: February 19, 2009

A PHP script to crawl the Facebook news items and create an RSS feed from them

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Counting words in LaTeX documents with TextMate

By Michael | Published: January 23, 2009
When working on LaTeX documents in TextMate, the default word count feature isn’t too helpful, as it also includes all of the LaTeX control sequences in the count. There are plenty of suggestions out there, but this is one I came up with, which works the same way as the default word count facility (Ctrl-Shift-N): [...]
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