January 2008
7 posts
Kindle Store: Highest Priced E-Books →
This is… mind boggling. And weirdly brilliant as a marketing strategy. You want how much for that text file?
OSX: How To Change When Periodic Scripts Are Run
Suppose you want to run a backup job every day. You place a script in /etc/periodic/daily/ that runs the backup, test it, everything works. But when will it be run? The default answer is 3:15 am. But what if your Mac is set to sleep every night at 11:00 pm? You need to tell your Mac to run the daily scripts at, say, 9:15 pm instead. But how? The simple answer is, you need to edit...
iPhone + gloves = non-starter
I think I just found the nail in the coffin for my iPhone: it doesn’t work when you’re wearing gloves. It’s 24 degrees, the wind is blowing up 6th Avenue, and I have to use the thing with my bare fingers? No phone is worth this. Some other iPhone complaints, while on the subject: SMS doesn’t work in landscape mode. Passwords are super easy to shoulder-surf thanks to the...
The Web Breaks, Get Over It
I don’t really care what Microsoft decides to do about version incompatibilities between their crapped-up browsers, but I understand why other web developers are angry about it. Too many late nights banging your head against the desk because the perfect design absolutely fails to render in MSIE will do that to a person. Learning that big corporate intranets and e-commerce sites are the main...
HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 “element.classList is a convenient accessor for className. The object it returns exposes methods, such as has(), add(), remove() and toggle() for manipulating the element’s classes.” div.classList.toggle(‘active’); Nice. And thanks to the genius semantic redefinition of the i tag, we know how to format a ship’s name, too. (And...
Migrating TextEdit.app Styles
I upgraded to Leopard, and now all of my painstakingly-created TextEdit styles have disappeared. Do I really have to recreate them again? See the Where does TextEdit store styles? discussion at macoskhints.com for the answer to this annoying little problem.