Posted by Dave Minor Thu, 15 Feb 2007 00:02:33 GMT
I just stumbled across this accidentally and thought it was cool. When pausing a QuickTime video, the scroll wheel on my mouse advances the movie by frame in both directions.
what would call negative advancing? advancing and departing, no. advancing and de-advancing, hmm. shuttling by frame in both directions!
Posted by Dave Minor Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:59:00 GMT
Dear LazyWeb,
The new trend in blogs is to have relative timestamps like “posted about 3 hours ago.” It’s cute—whatever.
I just noticed while working on a Typo theme that when you view the source, the real timestamp is plugged in! How do it know??
I assume there is some javascript code doing the cutsy stamp after the page loads, but I don’t see any calls for that to happen.
I think it’s cool and I want to know the details behind it, but I’m too behind to go looking right now. If noone enlightens me, maybe this will remind me to come back and dig into the code later.
UPDATE: ok, I found the call to show_dates_as_local_time() which I assume takes care of that.
Posted by Dave Minor Mon, 07 Aug 2006 21:38:00 GMT
Over the weekend, I ran Monolingual 1.3.3 to remove some unused pieces of my MacBook Pro system to free up a little disk space.
Things started going badly. Like installing system upgrades (Security Update 2006-004) would fail and some applications like Quicken would not launch.
About the time I started doing an archive and reinstall, I remembered running Monolingual. I pulled up their site and sure enough in their FAQ, it mentions not deleting the PowerPC architecture stuff on an intel box. Great!
The good news is that I’m thinking that after the archive and install, I’ll be in pretty good shape with just a few applications needing to be copied from the backup (my SuperDuper! backup was of course hosed too).
My hope in blogging this is that someone will either NOT remove the PowerPC architecture stuff on their intel mac or help them in fixing the problem afterwards. This is a lot less dismal than reinstalling each application by hand due to a “master level directory structure corruption” which is what Apple diagnosed it as.
It all could be fixed if they would just let us choose which languages we wanted to install from the beginning.
Posted by Dave Minor Wed, 09 Nov 2005 20:34:11 GMT
I’ve never been a big fan of Javascript or doing stuff client-side, but JS seems to be coming into it’s own with the development of some great JS/AJAX frameworks like Prototype and script.aculo.us.
So I’m drawn to add more Web 2.0 elements into my projects lately—which is not a bad thing I think.
Today, while thinking of trying out the new version of Camino, Doug pointed me to some really cool Javascript development tools. These are really amazing and will allow me to 1) get rid of my developer’s toolbar in Firefox that takes up screen real estate and 2) allow me to use Camino and still have DOM tools available.
Doug reports slayeroffice’s tools a little buggy in Camino, but they do work.
Posted by dminor Thu, 27 Jan 2005 18:05:00 GMT
This post is pretty much for indexing. Hopefully others will not have to suffer the embarrassment that I am now suffering by posting this.
One of my favorite OSX apps is a little menu utility called Meteorologist. I’m fairly addicted to it and recently when it had some formatting trouble due to its source of data, I was really distracted by not having it. What has been increasingly bothering me, though, is that the High temperature in the Extended Forecasts was buried below several other things. The data wasn’t displayed to my liking, and I was wishing for a way to customize it.
It just so happens that it’s been there all along in the the preferences under the Cities tab. Click Edit City, then click the Forecast Items tab. From there, you can drag the items to the place you want them to show up. Perfect.
Having reorganized the data so that I can quickly get the data I want, I imported the main city preferences into my other cities. Bingo!
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