http://www.krues8dr.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:09:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A handful or two of new photos from my cameraphone are up in the razr section. http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/09/08/new-photos/ If you've had the pleasure of upgrading to 10.5, you may have noticed that OS X suddenly began acting like Windows. Whenever you download a file, it now prompts you with a message, asking if you really actually want to open the file. http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/08/15/os-x-quarantine-resolution-file-downloaded-from-the-internet/ I just happened across fbCal, which allows you to subscribe to your Facebook birthday list and events directly in your favorite calendar app (iCal in my case).  If you're as calendar-obsessed as myself, you should check it out! http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/07/03/fbcal-the-missing-facebook-calendar-bridge/ I'm a huge fan of Pandora. - it's great for finding new music or just chilling out listening to some of my well-crafted stations. However, the fact that I'm completely tied to my browser to enjoy it makes me crazy. In particular, the fact that I can't control ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/05/29/getting-a-handle-on-pandora/ I just posted a whole bunch of new pics from my cellphone over in my Razr Gallery. http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/04/05/new-razr-pics/ I'm really starting to fall for Unfuddle. For those who don't know, it's another Basecamp clone for managing projects. I just discovered that if you're using the source control (Subversion-based) that they provide, they parse the svn messages for key phrases like "Resolves Ticket #1001", and update the ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/04/01/unfuddle-love/ Just what we needed, another version of standards-incompliant IE to support. Yet, here it is, in all it's terrible glory. This release apparently just playing feature-catch-up with Firefox, so one begins to wonder just what the point is. Like, why waste all this development money on a ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/03/05/microsoft-releases-ie-8-beta/ For those not so in-the-know, RSS feeds are a different way of reading content from your favorite sites. The advantage is that all of your content is aggregated into a single location, for easy reading. The main problem is that most every feed-reader sucks or is overpriced. ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/02/25/quick-tip-google-reader-folders-and-tags/ For those of you who don't follow these things with bated breath, VirtualBox just finally released a working version for OS X 10.5. Only 4 months late there, guys. What this means for you is absolutely free PC emulation, so you can run Windows within OS X. http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/02/20/virtual-box-for-os-x-leopard-released/ I'm a huge fan of Regular Expressions. They are, without a doubt, the single most powerful tool in the programmer's toolbox. BBEdit, my favorite text editor, happens to have really excellent regular expression support. Among its features is the ability to change the case of matched text ... http://www.krues8dr.com/2008/02/08/bbedit-regular-expression-case-change-options/