While waiting for Apple to fix the many bugs that I described in my recent posting, I thought I’d hack in with Interface Builder and fix some of my gripes myself. For the benefit of anybody who shares my grievances, I describe the process here for fixing several of the problematic behaviors. Note: This is […]

What are you dressing up for this Halloween? If you haven’t chosen a costume yet, let me suggest one. Using the command line tools “tcpdump” and “curl,” you can masquerade so convincingly, almost any web site will think you’re Safari! Something that came up recently on the AppleScript-Users list was a query about how to […]

NetNewsWire “Save to Delicious” scripts are popping up everywhere! I sent one to the NetNewsWire mailing list some time ago that handles the whole operation (IMHO) better than the others. The difference? The others either only bookmark web pages, or only bookmark news items. What!? Mine does both. This is a Mac! You can download […]

I have been plagued by a bug I see often in Terminal. I know it’s been at least months, and it may have even been years. But it’s gotten worse lately. I call it the “phantom [Process Completed] bug.” The symptoms of this issue are that every so often an innocent attempt to open a […]