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Posts Tagged: mac
Adding Accent Marks to Characters in OS X
Thanks apple for this great reference on adding accents to characters on your os x 10.4 mac (the instrutions are similar for other versions of OS X) which really helps if you are writing French, Italian, Spanish, etc on a US, UK or International keyboard. The article explains how to enable and view the visual… Read more »
OS X Terminal Prompt showing a different name to the Computer Name
My mac terminal came with a default prompt which looked like this: Vigor:~ pete$ I had changed my computer name to something I preferred, which works fine for browsing to your own apache server, but this did not have any effect on thebash prompt. I also wasn’t (yet) interested in customising the prompt with a… Read more »
Firefox Plugins Reloading on Window Resize
Firefox seems to reload plugins, for example flash and quicktime, when the window is resized, but only under certain circumstances. If the scrollbars change (from being there to not being there or vice versa) then the effect occurs, as it apparently does if you alter a containing element’s css position from absolute to relative. The… Read more »
Blogging from TextMate
Wow. TextMate is awesome. It’s a great editor (with the best ‘projects’ paradigm I’ve come across) and then you get ‘bundles’ which are the equivalent of Extensions in Firefox. For example, this post was written in, and published directly from, TextMate.