Josh Babetski : Quixotic Bravado

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• Current Command Extensions - django-extensions - GitHub
• SourceGear : DiffMerge : downloads DiffMerge is an application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix. (Like Beyond Compare)
• Dragon Labs » Admin Panel » Demo Great rainbow transition effect.
• Disk Inventory X Disk Inventory X is a disk usage utility for Mac OS X 10.3 (and later). It shows the sizes of files and folders in a special graphical way called "treemaps".

  If you've ever wondered where all your disk space has gone, Disk Inventory X will help you to answer this question.

• Juno: A Lightweight and Simple Web Framework Juno is a lightweight Python web framework designed to make development as fast as possible.

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• 10 Awesome Free Sans Serif Fonts | My Ink Blog
• Revisiting the Mac mini media center | Entertainment & HDTV | Macworld
• iCal Reply Checker | John Maisey iCal Reply Checker is an add-in to iCal for Mac OSX 10.4 and 10.5 that gives the user options for how replies to meeting invites are dealt with. It allows the user to not send replies, send replies on a case by case basis, send all replies or (as of version 1.2) opens the reply message in Mail for editing.
• Apple - Downloads - Email & Chat - YAI YAI (you are invited) is a plug-in for Apple Mail that translates and transfers Outlook, Google Calendar, Zimbra and Exchange clone meeting invitations to iCal. It corrects many incompatibilities between Microsoft Exchange style meeting invites and what iCal can understand.
• Inconsolata
• pubsubhubbub - Google Code A simple, open, web-hook-based pubsub (publish/subscribe) protocol. Includes an open source reference implementation that runs on Google App Engine.

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• Font Squirrel | Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
• IE6 Update IE6 Update looks like IE’s Information Bar, but instead of offering your visitors an ActiveX plugin, it offers a browser update.
• Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter | Mini Display Port to DVI / VGA Adapter Mini Display Port to HDMI Adapter
• Firediff - In Case of Stairs Firediff implements a change monitor that records all of the changes made by firebug and the application itself to CSS and the DOM. This
  provides insight into the functionality of the application as well as provide a record of the changes that were required to debug and tweak the page’s display.
• Plex Media Center for OS X Plex bridges the gap between your Mac and your home theater, doing so with a visually appealing user interface that provides instant access to your media. Plex can play a wide range of video, audio and photo formats as well as online streaming audio and video. The real power of Plex is found in its library features: Organize your media into versatile libraries, automatically retrieve metadata from the Internet, and display your libraries using one of the visually stunning skins.

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• iPhone Coding For Web Developers
• Understanding Git Conceptually
• PhoneGap | Cross platform mobile framework PhoneGap is an open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript.

  If you’re a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you.

• Three20 iPhone Project
• A List Apart: Articles: Prettier Accessible Forms

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• iWebkit - Framework for iPhone web sites
• 100 Free Useful Mac Applications (Part I) | Tools
• How to Build a Reputation Monitoring Dashboard » aimClear Search Marketing Blog
• git-rebase(1)
• Engrave Your Book | Icons Moleskine Icons
• Migration-Related Rake Commands « Oomoo

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• kuler "Web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community."
• Sequel Pro — MySQL database management app for Mac OS X
• iConvert: Convert ico, icns, and png icons online for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux
• Bacon Explosion: The BBQ Sausage Recipe of all Recipes
• rentzsch's clicktoflash at master - GitHub ClickToFlash is a WebKit plug-in that prevents automatic loading of Adobe Flash content. If you want to see the content, you can opt-in by clicking on it or adding an entire site to its whitelist.

  Try control-clicking (or right-clicking) on a unloaded Flash box to access ClickToFlash's contextual menu which allow you to do advanced things like edit its whitelist.

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• How to do Basecamp-style subdomains in Rails - (37signals)
• Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash | Raleigh Web Design & Development | New Media Campaigns
• iLife Tip: Enable Multi-Touch maps in iPhoto '09 - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities) and type (or copy/paste) the following statement and press enter:

  defaults write com.apple.iphoto MapScrollWheel -bool YES

  When you restart iPhoto, you will notice that you are now able to scroll in/out of the Places maps with ease. If it turns out that you don't want the scrolling feature, just retype the statement, replacing "YES" with "NO."

• Encoding for Apple TV | Mac 911 | Macworld
• Enable Emoji Icon on iPhone 2.2 without Jailbreak | Simon Blog

Over the past few weeks Safari started chewing up the CPU and causing my MacBook Pro to sound like it’s going to take flight. This of course chews up the battery as well.

At first, I thought there was Flash running in one of the pages I load regularly since Flash has a number of issues running well on a Mac. My other thought was that one of the sites I visit regularly has some weird JavaScript bug. The CPU usage would just start climbing at some point; I couldn’t pin down what the cause was or the exact steps to recreate it.

So today I fire it up and Safari immediately starts to devour system resources. Fed up, I do all of the usual things: disabled plug-ins, moved the contents out of ~/Library/Safari, watched the Console for odd messages. Nothing seemed to do it.

Then in occurred to me to try something as a web developer I do all the time: Empty the Browser Cache. (Safari > Empty Cache…)

Disco! It seems once the cache gets to a certain point in Safari, it begins to struggle.

Sometimes the answer is simple.

Hope this helps.

So sometime over the past week, when I launched Address Book on my Mac (running Leopard), the application hung. I would either get no Address Book window, a partially rendered window, or it would render but not respond to any selections.

I had been doing some development and testing with Microformats over the past week or so, exporting all manner of malformed hCards into my Address Book; I’d assumed I’d imported a corrupted card and it corrupted the entire SQLite3 file somehow. Either that or the often flakey syncing with Google Contacts hosed something.

My only other clue was an error in the Console app that occurred every time I tried to launch or interact with the Address Book:

[NSCFArray insertObject:atIndex:]: attempt to insert nil

After some hit-and-miss searching I finally came across the culprit and an easy fix. This was a relief over diff’ing a 3 month old back-up and manually retyping the missing entries back in, using my iPhone as my “back-up.” The bug turned out to be from the recent 10.5.5 OS X update. It seems if you have a Smart Group in your Address Book and your rules include “not a member of” “any group,” Address Book will hang and throw that error.

The diagnosis and solution came from one “Jean Christie” on the Apple Support forum thread: “Address Book hangs on open.” Thanks go to them for the fix.

The solution is pretty easy, depending on how buggy Address Book is acting.

1. Open Address Book
2. Right-click the Smart Group with the “not a member of” “any group” rule
3. Change the rules to something like “name contains” “please work!“
4. Re-save the Smart Group (Note: this took me a few tries for the save to actually take)
5. Once the save takes, delete the group
6. Restart Address Book

If you’re having a similar issue and found this searching for a solution. I hope it helps.

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• iphone-universal - Google Code
• Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator Upload or point to an image URI to generate an aged view.
• Ciarán Walsh’s Blog » TextMate Plug-in: ProjectPlus
• Google Calendar CalDAV support - Calendar Help Center How to add Google Calendars to iCal.