Archive for the 'Mac OS X' Category



#macsb iron coder contest. looks very cool. Too bad school is taking up so much of my time.

Somehow I managed to install Adobe’s PDF Viewer as a web plugin. Now Safari no longer uses it’s built-in PDF viewer which is significantly faster that Adobe’s plugin. If you run into a similar situation here is how to remove the plugin: Delete the file AdobePDFViewer.plugin from the folder /Library/Internet Plug-ins

Very cool stuff. I hope we can use it in Kiwi. http://www.tumultco.com/blog/?p=43

AdBlocking with Safari at ollieman.net:

Using two very simple steps I’ve managed to eliminate almost all ads from the daily browsing experience. Sure, there are a few that get through, but it’s not much and nothing really annoying.
The first step is to download a adblocking css file from floppymoose.com (direct link - download this). […]

I’ve been doing some hardcore hacking on my pet project, an e-mail client named Kiwi, and what you see above are it’s first breaths of life. It’s not much to look at, but it’s significant progress.
I am finally able to load the inbox and display messages when they are selected in the rightmost pane. […]

What apps am I running?

Right now I am running:

Safari
Xcode
Terminal
Thunderbird
Adium
NetNewsWire
iTunes
OmniGraffle
ecto
Textmate
InterfaceBuilder
Quicksilver

What apps are you running?