Category Archives: Mac OS X

All things Mac OS X: software and more.

Why I’m not a fan of ClearType

By Sharpy | Published: May 20, 2010

A quick comparison of how different the amazing font Inconsolata looks in Mac OS X versus Windows. (Spoiler: not so amazing in Windows.)

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Software is hard

By Sharpy | Published: February 8, 2010
Allan Odgaard’s Textmate Blog lead me to the linked article: If you’re doing top-down design, you produce a specification that stops at some level of granularity. And you always risk discovering, come implementation time, that the module or class that was the lowest level of your specification hides untold worlds of complexity that will take [...]
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Ryan Bates’ TODO List Textmate bundle

By Sharpy | Published: January 16, 2010
After wracking my brains to try and remember a random website where I’d watched a video about TextMate so that I could find the To-do List bundle he mentioned, it turns out a simple search solved my problem. The wonderful GetBundles for TextMate returned what I was after, Ryan Bates’ todo-list.tmbundle. It’s pretty simple to [...]
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Hiding the GrowlTunes menu bar icon

By Sharpy | Published: December 29, 2009
Update: You can now find this hint on macosxhints.com, along with some (hopefully) helpful comments. GrowlTunes is a nice little app included with the default Growl distribution. It watches iTunes and then whenever a song changes pops up a notification window giving details about the track, album art, your rating etc. Something that has really [...]
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PHP Markdown

By Sharpy | Published: October 31, 2009
While watching a video about blogging from TextMate, I went on further to discover this pretty awesome PHP version of Markdown. After then downloading PHP Markdown Extra and installing it on my site, this is my very first attempt at a blog written purely in Markdown syntax, with no HTML at all. Hope it works! [...]
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Unable to delete Header or Body styles in Pages ’09

By Sharpy | Published: September 19, 2009

Found an interesting bug (feature?) in Pages '09 which makes you unable to delete Header or Body styles, and creates up to Header 9 by default in every document.

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