VIM Reference Card — Improved

Monday, November 3rd, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

I'm a big fan of Ravi Shanker's excellent VIM Reference Card. However since content on that card is ordered by commands alphabetically, sometimes it's not very easy to find a command for what I wanted to do. So I made ...

Install Leopard on Quicksilver PowerMac G4

Saturday, August 30th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

I recently acquired a PowerMac G4 (800MHz, 768MB RAM, CDRW) and I want to use it as my computer at home. It runs Tiger just fine, but I wanted to put Leopard on it. Attempt #1: External Hard Drive Since the PowerMac ...

GMail Keyboard Shortcuts Reference Card

Monday, May 12th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

The version of shortcut reference on GMail's website is too large to fit onto one page for easy reference. So I made a compact version here: Download

Applescript to Populate Address Book with Jabber-MSN Contact Info

Thursday, May 1st, 2008 Posted in Tips | 2 Comments »

I recently setup a Jabber account on my server and started to use the MSN transport on it to access my MSN account. Thus I am now able to use the fantastic iChat as my only IM client (since iChat ...

Applescript to Duplicate Terminal Tab

Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Tips | No Comments »

From my personal experience, I realized that I'd always need at least two terminal tabs whenever I do any Rails development: one to run the server ($ ./script/server) and one to do the rest of the rails stuff (generate things, ...

Defeat Annoying “Open Link in New Window” in Safari

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Tips | 2 Comments »

I am absolutely sick of link that opens in a new window and the new Safari 3 has just the solution -- "Merge All Windows" -- anytime there are more than one window of Safari open, just select from the ...