One of the features I’ve really liked in Leopard has been Quick Look. It’s a really nice way to browse files quickly, without opening up a bunch of random apps. However, the QL plugin that Apple provides for reading source code is, well, just plain boring. You just get the text, in [...]

I finally got around to updating ScriptExport to the official iPhoto ‘08 export plugin SDK, added a nice icon and treated this as a good excuse to call it 1.0. You can get the result in the usual place. Here’s the ChangeLog:

VERY LIKELY BREAKS OLD SCRIPTEXPORT SCRIPTS!
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When you’ve got a project like ScriptExport that uses an undocumented plugin API for an Apple product you tend to greet product releases (and even updates) with a bemused sigh. The iPhoto export API has actually been pretty stable, but it’s always unsettled me to think of the extra work in store if Apple [...]

Let’s hear it for xar, the first copier to ace the Backup Bouncer test suite! In my last post I mentioned that they were just one test away, and now that bug 19 is fixed they’ve nailed it. Kudos to Rob Braun and the rest of the folks working on xar (if there [...]

I just tried testing the latest SVN HEAD revision of xar, and wow.

—————— xar ——————
Verifying: basic-permissions … ok
Verifying: timestamps …
Sub-test: modification time … ok
ok
Verifying: [...]

Note: Since everybody is linking to this page as the canonical Backup Bouncer document, I should point out that the project page with the latest version is located here, and the source code and issue tracker are located here. Also, the Backup Bouncer category of the blog has all the posts related to BB.

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It looks like the MacWeb has finally noticed my baby! No, not that one. The ugly one. And hey, I got a shout out from no less than John Gruber, which probably single-handedly advances me a degree or two closer to Kevin Bacon.

It’s a nice feeling to see your name in the [...]

About a month ago, Google’s Amit Singh announced the availability of a port of the FUSE (Filesystems in USErspace) framework to Mac OS X. Amit’s the guy who wrote the book on OS X internals, and probably understands OS X better than anyone else outside of Apple. I’m not going to spend a [...]

Rumor has it that the newest seed of Leopard has a tabbed version of Terminal.app. At the moment I’m running mrxvt under X11 because all the Cocoa-based terminal emulators are “teh sluggy” with the exception of Terminal.app, which lacks support for tabs. Could this leave NEdit as the only X-based app I use [...]

Call me strange, but one of the first things I noticed about iTunes was the BPM field in the song info dialog. I had visions of filtering songs and putting together mixes based on tempo. I even went as far as writing a little app that allowed me to click the mouse in [...]