If you’re like me and don’t have a Leopard Preview, and if you haven’t seen the Leopard Developer Application Technologies Overview, you should take a look. There’s some pretty interesting stuff coming down the pipe. I like the Calendar store, which lets any application work with the iCal calendar info in much the same way [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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)” [...]

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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 [...]

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Even after moving web-based mail to a separate app, I still usually have at least two browsers open at all times – Camino when something doesn’t load in Safari, Firefox for tails (a microformats helper), and Safari, which I’m used to, has my bookmarks, and auto-fills forms. Safari freezes and crashes pretty often for me, [...]

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The old debate over donation-ware and pricing has popped up again, in response to Peter Maurer‘s Textpander, since expanded into TextExpander. The debate rages in comments on TUAW and a bit more on HawkWings. Both TUAW and the MacUser blog choose to call it “freeware”, which is technically true, but blurs the lines in an [...]

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