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Nightly WebKit builds

By Will Norris | Published: October 13, 2005
The WebKit team announced a new site today where you can download nightly builds of the latest WebKit — very cool. I went ahead and wrote the following simple shell script to automate the process of downloading and installing the latest build: #!/bin/sh curl -o /tmp/webkit.dmg http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/Latest-WebKit-CVS.dmg hdiutil mount /tmp/webkit.dmg if [ -d /Volumes/WebKit/WebKit.app ]; then [...]

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iPod Shuffle

By Will Norris | Published: September 25, 2005
The local Apple Store was having their monthly fire sale this weekend, and thanks to the new iPod Nanos requiring some counter space I got a great deal on one of the old iPod Shuffle demo units. I decided to test the battery capacity by cycling it a few times, and discovered something interesting [...]

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Double Click-Throughs

By Will Norris | Published: August 22, 2005
Preface When I started thinking about this topic about a week ago, it was originally going to be a rant about [NetNewsWire][] and how its click-through behavior was so frustrating. Upon doing a little research however, I discovered this problem is not specific to NNW, but all OS X applications, and I’m certainly not the first person to talk [...]

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embedding data into podcasts

By Will Norris | Published: June 17, 2005
As a teacher, I’d love to have lectures podcasted and have the ability to embed Word or Keynote docs or hyperlinks somehow as well! I know album art and links to the iTMS are what will pay for some of this, but why not add capacity and watch a new market emerge?! — [...]

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They get it

By Will Norris | Published: May 24, 2005
Don’t you just love when you run across a company that just “get’s it”? They just really grok their industry and what it’s all about… they see the big picture, and therefore tend to be the trend setters. There aren’t all that many companies I know of that I’d put in this category [...]

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