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 […]
So just a couple of days ago I talked about locking your screen with Quicksilver. Today I discovered that Quicksilver actually has a lock screen in the “Extra Scripts” plugin, but it’s not visible by default in Tiger (seems to work out of the box on Panther). The problem is with the file […]
I’m generally a big fan of the Unix axiom of applications doing one thing and doing it well, but when each of those applications is running all the time and takes up 20MB of active memory I tend to make an exception and Quicksilver is providing an excellent alternative to several smalls apps I use.
I […]
Last Fall, I started working with the developers of x3watch on creating a Mac version of the software. I had a pretty decent working solution, but they’ve since contracted the work out to some firm. I don’t particularly mind that they went with someone else, but if they attack the problem in any way similar to how […]
After reading this slashdot article I decided to view a little of Gates’s presentation on Longhorn, and I must say that Microsoft never ceases to amaze me. They seem to have the most backwards thinking with so many things they do, and this new Metro file format is no exception. The slashdot comments contain most of the […]
