For my first contribution to BibDesk in a while, I’ve added the ability to read Dublin Core metadata when it is encoded in HTML META tags on a web page.

What this means is that when using the “New Publications from Web” feature, some sites you browse to will have the publication’s information filled in for [...]

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In case you had no idea what I was talking about in the last post, I’ve put together a hasty screencast with no script, no soundtrack, and no editing.

In the video you can see a few things:

0:00: I have found a way to show you the palm trees on my street without showing you the [...]

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13 months ago, I “launched” the leverage project on sourceforge, supposed to be a place to house all the various OS X / Cocoa text manipulation hacks I’ve done, including my I-Search for NSTextView InputManager hack.

I haven’t touched leverage since, but today I added three more projects to the SVN repository with varying appeal and [...]

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I’ve been using Red Sweater software’s FlexTime for a while now, and Daniel just announced version 1.0.

FlexTime is a repeating-timer program that is great for either set routines or one-off reminders. (It also has a pretty great name, don’t you think?)

It’s a solid program that you can use for a number of things. It fills [...]

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Apple’s XCode 3.0 preview page is a cornucopia of new stuff that I somehow missed all day – until now.

No doubt this is the stuff that everyone at WWDC is talking about. This page represents no less than 3 or 4 really significant changes and some really nice details. Here’s a hit list that I [...]

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Take me to WWDC with the Mike McCracken WWDC flashcards.

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Lazyweb: where can I find / how can I get a universal libpcre?

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In relation to my previous post about instant replay in QuickTime Player – The script dictionary almost looks like a program wrote the documentation. For example:

“time scale (integer, r/o) : the time scale of the movie” (uh…) and

“current time (integer) : the current time (can be set by name as well as number)” (units? what [...]

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A feature I really miss from having a DVR is the ‘8 seconds back’ button, to catch a play or repeat something funny.

Recently I’ve been listening to recorded interviews we’ve been doing of HPC developers, and updating my notes (in VoodooPad using them. Since people mumble and use jargon I don’t always understand, I decided [...]

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