Sillybean

a better save bookmarklet for delicious on the iPhone

Last week, I discovered that the standard ‘save to delicious’ bookmarklet pretty much sucks on the iPhone. It tries to open a new window. It doesn’t use the mobile version of delicious. When I got back, I realized that nothing…

Word Unmunger (HTML cleanup) Automator script updated

For years, I used Luke Francl’s Word Unmunger to strip the gunk out of Word-generated HTML files (an occupational hazard when you work in higher ed). I fell out of the habit when I started working more on application…

Snow Leopard cannot get here fast enough

As if the hosting disaster weren’t bad enough, my laptop is increasingly unstable. For months, it’s been refusing to shut all the way down, failing on Time Machine backups, and generally being flaky. Today it’s suddenly much worse. It…

Better.

The lost data was not recovered, but MAMP was persuaded to cough up its database connections, and Time Machine is now ticking merrily along — although, since it has over a month’s worth of stuff to back up, it’s…

Virtual hosts with MAMP

I’ve spent the last two days setting up virtual hosts with MAMP on two different Macs, one Tiger and one Leopard. I’m posting this so the next person doesn’t have to spend two days at it.

Setting up virtual…

Leopard tip roundup

Stacks and the Dock

• Prevent Stacks from changing docked folder icons (when alphabetized)
• Prevent Stacks from changing docked folder icons (when sorted by date)
• One way to put Stacks to good use — group applications into folders and use

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I’d rather be reading.

Well. The honeymoon is over; the words no longer come easily, and we are definitely in the “don’ wanna” stage. And one of the other books is bouncing on its toes for my attention.

New words: 908
Reason for…

Home again, and writing

I think I finally have titles I like for all four of these books. Of course, whether I write all four of them is anybody’s guess.

New words: 863, plus 575 elsewhere
Reason for stopping: quota, tired
Sustenance:…

Sundry

The old PowerBook having been pronounced not worth fixing by a genuine Apple Genius Bar employee over the weekend — remind me to tell you sometime about the “authorized reseller” that does repairs locally — and no new laptops having…

Why a Mac tablet from Apple does make sense

The Unofficial Apple Weblog posted Why a Mac tablet from Apple doesn’t make sense earlier today. I commented briefly there, but this seems as good a time as any to spout my theory of the Apple tablet.

(I…

I just have to say…

Thanks, all you crazy Apple rumor people. You’re doing great things to my stock performace. Keep it up.

Dreamweaver, WebDAV, my foot, and Transmit

So it turns out that in version 8, the latest, the wizards over at Adobe > Macromedia managed to completely, totally, utterly HOSE Dreamweaver’s WebDAV compatibility. On both platforms it fouls up the lock files, and on Macs it’s…

Automator script for Word HTML cleanup

So, the other Steph and I were kvetching earlier about the lousy Word HTML we have to clean up all day… and I remembered something. A long time ago, I’d tried to use AppleScript to make

Why I use a Mac

I’ve found myself in several Mac vs. Windows discussions this week (and it’s only Tuesday; this does not bode well), so rather than type the same thing all over again, I’m posting it here…

I love Macs because I don’t…

DataWerkz

I don’t really need a database app on my Mac at the moment, but if I did, this would be really tempting.