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 […]

Usually when I get an email message with HTML content, I reach for the delete key faster than you can say “spam!” But there are some messages I receive which contain important HTML content. For instance, the invoicing system one of my large corporate clients uses (why, I don’t know), is completely unusable in most […]