I’ve written about open-source programming bounties before, and found a new one yesterday: Bounty County, which looks reasonable enough despite the name. I didn’t see any OS X projects on there yet – it’s mostly Gnome stuff – but I’m sure they would list a Mac bounty if you sent it in. Unlike some proposals [...]

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I had to look at some docs that were in Microsoft Help format – ‘.chm’, or ‘Compiled HTML’. It looks like a compressed, possibly indexed web archive format. Luckily, I only had to look for a minute before I found an OS X reader for CHM files that I like – Chmox. It gives you [...]

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I gave my brother a Terrapass for Christmas this year, since he’s kind of hard to shop for, and he owns a Jeep. The idea is that depending on what kind of car you have, and how much you drive it, you give them some amount of money that they invest in clean energy projects. [...]

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I’ve decided to switch over to MarsEdit, and as a result I will now most likely stop maintaining Blapp, my simple OS X blosxom weblog editor. It’s been a lot of fun through seven versions, starting with my original post about it, to Rael Dornfest (the author of blosxom) picking it up and the v2 [...]

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I was digging around the gdb source and found that there’s a plugin in there that supports macsbug style screens and commands from within gdb. If you have the XCode Tools installed, take a look at the Readme on your own (OS X) system at the file /usr/libexec/gdb/plugins/MacsBug/Readme.html To invoke it, type this at the [...]

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I’ve been behind the times on weblog technology for a while now, so when I noticed that pair had a pre-packaged WordPress install I could use on my account, I thought I’d take the opportunity to move from Blapp, which I love because it is my own code, to MarsEdit, which does more and doesn’t [...]

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