When I started learning Ruby and Ruby on Rails I was introduced to the concept of symbols. You are using a lot of symbols in Rails and it feels somewhat natural after a while but when you try to explain newbies what these symbols are actually good for, it is really hard to describe. It […]
This is a neat little command line to open man pages in Preview.app: man -t bash | open -f -a /Applications/Preview.app In fact its converting it to a PDF file. I just tried it and its a lot better to read and search than in the Terminal.app. Found on bitfever.de
If you ever wanted to know what ports are actually available through MacPorts check out their trac site at http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/dports That’s it for now.
The good news is that Safari for Windows also supports color profiles which is a feature that no other browser has. This is really cool because when you post a picture to the internet, lets say with you cameras color profile attached, it looks very different than in Photoshop. This is because all the other […]
I know what you are thinking: »Those poor OS X users with their mutilated unix user land. I wrote about the ancient version of locate that OS X ships with, now this also applies to the standard shell, bash. OS X ships with version GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release, which just like locate has poor or […]