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Replace Parallels ugly (Red Slash) Desktop icons

Darren Terhune — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:35:38 +0000

Recently I upgraded to Parallels version 4 then noticed that the icons were ugly! Other people were talking about it too. So I decided to re-create my own that were easy on the eyes. First I downloaded IconBuilder plugin for photoshop or fireworks. Then I grabbed some images to work with in Photoshop (new iMac [...]

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Better alias for Ruby on Rails script/server and TextMate mate app

Darren Terhune — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:35:26 +0000

Just the other day I was browsing through some railscasts from Ryan Bates and noticed he was starting his server with “ss”. It made me pissed that I hadn’t thought of doing that before, I guess because I was so comfortable cd ~/Sites/appname and script/server. So I first wrote some aliases like Ryan’s “ss”, but [...]

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I’m taking a stand against IE 6 – cause it can go F*CK itself

Darren Terhune — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:14:41 +0000

After a long past few days fixing someone’s code for an un-named website to look good across all browsers, I decided I hate IE 6 more than ever. Even though I will still continue to support IE 6 in clients websites (for now), I’ve decided to f*cking phase them out permanently on my sites. It’s [...]

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Modifying Textmate drawer font size

Darren Terhune — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:49:15 +0000

New builds of textmate come with the ability to change the font size! See @Allan’s comment below for details. Download the intel based test build by option clicking the check now button in TextMate’s system preferences software update tab. $ defaults write com.macromates.textmate OakProjectDrawerFontSize -int 15 If you are like me and hate how small [...]

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Pimp my text mate or other mac apps UI

Darren Terhune — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:13:15 +0000

Subtle Gradient has a post about pimping out your favorite mac os apps ui’s. Think I’ll be hitting up the hack for my Text Mate ui. I hate that the fonts and colors in the drawer don’t match my editing area and I also hate how small the fonts are. I have my fonts jacked [...]

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Create TextMate todo list to keep track of your work

Darren Terhune — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 20:34:21 +0000

How to…do… a TODO, FIXME and CHANGED in TextMate comment for other developers in your office, network, whatever… So you’ve got an html, php, erb, python, ruby etc file. Just add the appropriate comment for your language followed by TODO, FIXME or CHANGED like this: The within your project you can either hit; (Mac) shift+ctrl+t [...]

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Grab color values from anything on your mac os screen

Darren Terhune — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:46:38 +0000

Digital Color Meter is a cool application located in Applications/Utilities/DigitalColor Meter.app. You can color pick anything on your screen and grab the color value in different formats to use in your projects. Update: You can also use shift + command + c to copy the color as a hex value and paste it into your [...]

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Expose previous mail recipients in mac os x mail.app

Darren Terhune — Tue, 15 May 2007 22:55:35 +0000

Ever forget someones email address that you have previously emailed? Want to know the address? In Apples Mail.app you can goto =>Window =>Previous Recipients … and a list of all the email addresses that you’ve sent emails to should appear in a window. (Powered by LaunchBit)

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iDVD bug – App hangs when authoring audio

Darren Terhune — Thu, 10 May 2007 00:49:36 +0000

I just used iDVD for the first time in a long time on my new MacBook Pro (I’m a Final Cut, DVD Studio Pro guy). I was authoring a fairly large video (about 90min), with audio, motion menus, and audio menus. Everything went fine until It started to author the audio from the video. As [...]

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TextMate desktop shortcut image

Darren Terhune — Tue, 08 May 2007 06:58:06 +0000

I just made a switch to TextMate for my editor of choice and found a sweet shortcut png file for my desktop. When ever I need it I just use expose on my MacBook Pro and walla! Easy shortcut help. Makes life so easy breezy. (Powered by LaunchBit)