Tag Archives: mac

Waxing thematic

By Sharpy | Published: October 27, 2009
So. Whilst visiting imjustcreative.com I read this post about WordPress themes which lead me to this article—a list of some pretty cool minimalist/typographical designs. I couldn’t go past this one: Wu Wei, by Jeff Ngan. There’s just something about the gorgeous, chunky Helvetica (well, actually it’s Helvetica Neue—if you have a Mac you’ll be seeing [...]
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Changing SmartyPants’ default behavour in TextMate

By Sharpy | Published: September 29, 2009
I recently mentioned that I am currently trialling TextMate, as a possible alternative to Bare Bones Software’s eminently capable BBEdit. Here’s one of the issues I initially had with Markdown in Textmate, and how I solved it.
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Another text editor?

By Sharpy | Published: September 29, 2009
I’ve been a BBEdit user for around 6 months now, and I can tell you that I am very happy with it. There are probably many who would say my love of text editors and plain text is a little crazy, or at least odd. I’d probably agree with them. It must be an insatiable [...]
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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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Setting Xcode’s default compiler for a project

By Sharpy | Published: July 29, 2009

A simple how-to for changing the default GCC compiler version in Xcode, and also for use from the Mac OS X Terminal.

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Safari just got better

By Sharpy | Published: July 22, 2009

I’ve spoken before about the reasons I like OS X so much. But who am I kidding? I’m sure the real reason is that Apple just knows how to make things look pretty. Therefore, an entire post about font smoothing. When will Microsoft catch up?

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Donald Knuth, the Mac, and practical typography

By Sharpy | Published: July 20, 2009
You could call me any combination of fussy, perfectionist, OCD or just plain anal when it comes to matters of typography. I wasn’t always this way—at least not about matters of type. I think the root cause of my problem is that I’m an intuitive learner. I can’t stand to learn things by rote and [...]
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