Archive for the 'Reviews' Category

Service Scrubber

Saturday, June 2nd, 2007

Most of us face the problem of inertia in almost everything we do. We eat the same foods, watch the same television, take the same walks, go to the same parks, talk to the same people, day in and day out.

And in many ways this is good. But the sheer inertia of our habits can [...]

Blogging From TextMate

Monday, March 12th, 2007

In case you’ve been asleep for the past two years, you should know that many, many people are excited about TextMate, or as I like to call it, “emacs 2.0″ (joke slightly spoiled by the fact that emacs is currently at version 21.x).

People who love TextMate tend to want to do as much of their [...]

Mail Smart Folders

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

Maybe this should be filed under “No Duh” but it’s taken me this long to figure out that Mail’s smart folders might actually save my life.

For the past year or so, I’ve adopted the “save everything” approach, ala gmail, except on my Mac. So I have this huge “Received Mail” archive that actually, for better [...]

OMG BBEdit HTML Code Folding

Thursday, February 8th, 2007

I’m doing some modest revision to my web site, when I notice one of those stupid HTML glitches where you’re just positive you must have forgotten to close a tag or something. Thanks to the generally forgiving nature of most web browsers, the page looks more or less OK, except that some table column is [...]