April 2012
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nexTab adds useful trackpad shortcuts →
A lack of extra buttons to configure is one of the trackpad downfalls. Although Magic Prefs does a decent job, it doesn’t seem to match Apple gesture recognition.
nexTab fixes that. It adds a few useful trackpad gestures such as:
Switch to left/right tab
Reload tab
Close tab
I find its shortcuts to be incredibly useful. The next version is going to add a very useful feature:
5.0 is...
December 2011
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Morality clauses in domain registration
GoDaddy has received a lot of bad press for their support of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA), which they helped write and from whom they are exempt. However, GoDaddy and many other registrars should be avoided for more simple reasons.
From the GoDaddy Legal Agreement:
Go Daddy may also cancel the registration of a domain name, after thirty (30) days, if that name is being used, as...
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October 2011
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Migrating from Kindle to iBooks
I started off reading eBooks from the Amazon Kindle store. As time has progressed, I’ve found myself using my physical Kindle less and less. Partly because I forget to charge it, and partly because I can never get the lighting in my favorite reading locations quite right. And at night? Forget about it.
So I’ve converted all of my Kindle purchases to ePubs for use in iBooks. I could...
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Subler, mp4 remuxer/editor →
Subler is an incredibly useful Mac app to manage media files which contain h.264 video and various audio formats. In one sense, Subler is a remuxer: it lets you take the underlying content and put it into whichever format you need, without converting the content like Handbrake would.
What’s really nifty is that it’s also an editor. Subler hooks into thetvdb.com and themoviedb.org to...
September 2011
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Incrementing with a bitmask
Bitmasks are fun. There’s lots of little tricks you can do with them. A common situation is checking for the presence of a flag among elements in a linked list, or some similar data structure. I came across a trick a few years ago that makes it drop-dead simple.
Let’s say we needed to check for AUsefulFlag in the flags element of each node, and total how many elements in the linked...
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Words have an exact meaning
James: What are you after?
Francisco: Money.
James: Don't you have enough?
Francisco: In his lifetime, every one of my ancestors raised the production of d'Anconia Copper by about ten per cent. I intend to raise it by one hundred.
James: What for?
Francisco: When I die, I hope to go to heaven—whatever the hell that is—and I want to be able to afford the price of admission.
James: Virtue is the price of admission.
Francisco: That's what I mean, James. So I want to be prepared to claim the greatest virtue of all–that I was a man who made money.
James: Any grafter can make money.
Francisco: James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.