'Lateral Cuts' [ Radio Mixshow ]

I like this. It's an oldee from dave Mr_Hopkinson™ and mate in mp3 stylee: Lateral_Cuts-Radio Mixshow

 

An old mac hint that I'd forgotten about. Nicer.

… quit iTunes, open a Terminal window, and type:defaults write com.apple.iTunes invertStoreLinks -bool YES

Found this «nifty» tutorial on how to make a lightbox …

"an unobtrusive script used to to overlay content on the current page. Because it places content above your current page, it frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths."

OK - its www browser version of our old favourite the Modal Dialogue Box but with CSS and a bit of JavaScript. Via Treehouse Magazine.

Haha! Of course it's not a problem. (From www.soxiam.com)
sup { line-height: 0; vertical-align: text-top; }

Thanks for the recommendation Dan. TextMate looks very good. There's a couple of interesting articles about it out there in blogland and beyond:

Trick Your TextMate: The Series. Very nice bunch of hints and stuff from Mr Garrett Dimon

A decent short Text Mate vs TextWrangler article at infocraft

Michael Alderete’s Weblog has a post on TextMate vs BBEdit with nice links:

… a few new tricks in this capsule review of TextMate at Vitamin, and someone built this nifty customized quick reference card generator for TextMate that could be indispensable.

Thanks to Mark Morford's notes & errata column at The SF Gate for reminding me about this roasting of Bush. Bloody hell, you can now buy it on iTunes as an audiobook. This loses half the fun, but hey, it's a lot of fun.

aside: Good 'ole iTunes.

Funny music comes in waves … yesterday I was treated to Chris Morris's Bad Sex then just now More Shopping by Bran Van 3000, a tune by Whale that reminded me of their Young Dumb and full of Cum.

Now a semi-comedy cover of Floyds Money by Gary "Nesta" Pine & Dollarman. Priceless.

Thanks to Mr Gruber for alerting me to CamelCase in his rant about WebKit vs Web Kit.

Bloody Hell!

All I want is a simple tool to help me write web content and clearly formatted text. In particular a proposal for a web site redevelopment. <rant>Seems very wrong to be using Microsoft Word. The bloated wee shiite won't start up on this machine anymore anyway. Frankly very glad to see it gone.</rant> Something that does headings, helps with links and HTML entities.

Finds so far:

Nvu.

Mmmmm. OK - starts life in HTML transitional mode. Set to XHTML. Looking promising then it drops in a span with inline style into the text when you hit the BOLD button. What's wrong with just <b> or <strong>? Breaks go in as <br>.

SEEdit

Nice, but without the WYSIWYG.

Amaya

Grrr. It's got all the tags to hand - but is not a "Mac" app. Feels very much like an unpolished Open Source app. Screen redraw is odd. Very bad: I can't find a way to [select all]

Taco HTML Edit

Naw - not WYSIWYG, not XHTML ready (option for uppercase tags)

Well …

Perhaps I'll stick with TextWrangler after all

aside

Completely forgotten the very smart looking application that posts to WordPress et al. … Found it. In the end. MarsEdit. Loads of google searches and head scratching trying to remember where that one came from. Anyway, in the end it's no good for what I'm looking for right now. And its job of easing the posting of content to a WordPress blog looks to be under threat from within WordPress community: the shuttle has launched. That looks great. WordPress has been cumbersome in that regard.

I've got a dirty CCD. After my last, disastrous attempt to clean it I'm looking for new solutions. No pun intended.

Last time I went with the recommendation to use compressed air, "but make sure the tube/pipe/staw/whatever is clean before you let it anywhere near the CCD." So I did. Then between letting go and blowing air at the CCD - all the little drops of condensation that had instantly formed inside said tube/pipe/staw/whatever splattered all over it. Another fine mess. At least the charge to clean up the mess wasn't too bad. So - do I use a vacuum, eye-shadow aplicators DSLRClean™ or perfect fit (and Fuji recommended) SENSOR SWAB™. Mmmm.

{CONTROL}-{Space}. [Instead of {CMD}-{Space}.]
Now why didn't I thing of that.
Now it the Spotlight search won't grab my Mac when I'm trying to pan around in Adobe apps. Thanks to Google, again, and Dan Rodney

Fresh from the press. The wonders of new publishing methods. I now have a (fairly useless) screen-view-only secure PDF and a real book on its way. Shame they don't do a WordPress Book.

Only came across this service due to inclusion in the Scrible theme for WordPress - liked the look of it but left it at that. Now have seen a HInt about how to get going with Last.FM and then then keep using iTunes. We shall see. Added interest due to the work n La Hora Violeta site (development currently stalled due to lack of content from the lads). We shall see. Not sure about background re-encoding on my already struggling PowerBook - but hey - I like the idea and need some new music.

Good ole goooogle.

Thanks Mr Mac Observer and your TMO Quick Tip, One-click Speaker Selection, to solve the menu bar sound input/output selection problem I had. [USB headset for Skype causing more options - and System Preferences is a round the houses solution.] I thought I'd seen this before; being an occasional Audio Hijack Pro user and Rogue Amoeba fan. Easy, lightweight solution. Oh, yes by the way its called SoundSource and it's from those Rogue Amoebas

Me Happy Now.

From the comments at Pilgrim (the article itself is flim-flam), via Decaffeinated

Here’s what I’d do (am in the process of moving to):Buy a ReadyNAS device from infrant - I’m looking at the 1U rack enclosure, because I have access to a rack, but one of their other boxes would be just as good. It’s pricey for a NAS, but it’s currently unbeatable, and supports hardware RAID-5. On top of that, its one of the few hardware RAID-5 implementations I’ve found that allows you to resize the array up by adding one hard drive at a time and rebuilding until all are replaced, and you have more place. Most seem to require you to destroy the array, and then recreate it.This gives you a great upgrade strategy - buy four hard-drives from seagate (5 year warranty, and best drives out there) that will provide enough space for the foreseeable future (defined by you) - $200 / drive can buy a lot of space. When they fill up (and it will be before the warranty is up), replace with the newer generation drives in the same price range - drive space will have jumped remarkably, and suddenly your array is much bigger. Rinse and repeat every few years.Not the cheapest option - especially for the initial setup - but you have some solid data protection. Either double for offsite storage (yes, pricey), or only worry about doing offsite storage for the most important information. Or find an offsite location for the rack enclosure, and trust they’ll never burn down…Comment by Isaac — Monday, May 8, 2006 @ 11:16 am

The festivals and heavy weekends continue. This weekend it's the Virgin. She comes to town once every four years or so.

And Then there's Matthew's gig in Jimena de la Frontera.

BushWhacked

Unbelievable rip into Bush at the white house correspondents association dinner