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This looks like a good way to build an API for web apps.
Mike Cohen
links for 2010-11-11
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You only need to copy 3 files from the pre-release 10.6.5.
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I reformatted my Drobo with EXT3 for better performance and I'm now using primarily afp instead of smb.
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Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.
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See if an image is real or photoshop.
Make your own level maps
Have you finished all of the levels or are you bored with the current level? If you have a Mac, you can create your own levels, or modify the existing ones.
You’ll need to download the Level Editor here. This is the same tool we used to create the level maps. It isn’t especially user friendly, but in the future we plan to make a nicer editor and easier ways to share your creations.
When you sync your device with iTunes, Removr will appear in the file sharing section under the list of apps in iTunes. Save the one file listed on your desktop and open it with Level Editor. You can then play around with any of the levels and create new ones. Choose the type of piece you want to place on the map from the popup menu over the editing area and click on a square to place that piece. Option-click on a piece to remove it. The next time you sync with iTunes, copy the file you saved back to Removr’s file sharing section, but don’t rename it. If you screw things up too badly, delete the file in iTunes or remove & reinstall the app and it will be rebuilt.
links for 2010-10-28
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Photos of Rain on Uluru (Ayers Rock)
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Australia's iconic Uluru is barely recognisable in a series of photographs taken during torrential rain earlier this month. For local photographer Peter Carroll, it was a 20 year wait to capture rain on the rock
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Instrumental tracks by Mike Doughty, free for personal use.
Removr 1.0.5 is now available
Apple has approved Removr 1.0.5 just one day after I submitted it, a new speed record. New in this version:
- Night mode – depending on the time of day, it will appear as a sunny day or spooky night.
- Dramatically improved touch responsiveness. I’m using a faster method to locate the tapped piece.
- ‘Visit us on the web’ is now ‘Latest News’ and it now opens a mobile-friendly page.
links for 2010-10-25
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pictures scanned from old books
links for 2010-10-16
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Useful tips for using OmniFocus
Use Gmail's filters to organize your email
If you belong to FaceBook, Twitter, and other social networks or mailing lists, you probably get a lot of email notifications (“Bacn“, email you want but not right now). These emails probably end up in your inbox, distracting you from more important matters.
You can use filters or rules in most desktop applications to move those emails to a different folder, but if you read your email on a mobile device or on the web, all of those emails will be in your inbox. Gmail’s filters are a much better solution. Any filters you set up on the web will run automatically on all received email, before it even reaches your inbox, so your email will remain organized wherever you read it.
Setting up filters is easy. Gmail will let you create a filter matching the email you’re currently reading or emails you have selected in the list using “Filter messages like these”.
Gmail will show you the rules that will match the selected email. You can fine tune the rules, like having it match all addresses in that domain or a specific subject line.
Finally, choose the actions for that filter. Most likely you’ll have it skip the inbox and apply a label.
Don’t be afraid to set up lots of filters. Your ultimate goal is to keep everything out of your inbox except email that you’re actually interested in.
links for 2010-10-08
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an approach for testing if an arbitrary pointer is a pointer to a valid Objective-C object. The result from the test is not absolutely accurate and can interfere with gdb debugging if the pointer isn't a valid memory location, so this is not something you'd want to do often (and certainly not in production code). But it can be a handy debugging tool for when you're staring blindly at memory you didn't allocate.