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  • Workflow Apps and Snow Leopard

    jasonevers 11:05 am on September 14, 2009 | 1 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: 1password, dropbox, glims, growl, , safari,

    I’ve had to rough it lately with my early adoption of Snow Leopard but things are getting better. Safari users running Snow Leopard should rejoice that MacHangout has put a beta of Glims up that doesn’t fail at life and fixes a number of bugs that previous betas had. Dropbox has a new version out that is fully Snow Leopard compatible but if you’re interested in the new LAN sync features and don’t mind risky software, check out version this thread. It fixes your versioning icons in the finder among other things.

    Sadly, Agile Web Solutions has decided to make someone upgrade to 1Password 3 for Snow Leopard support. Growl isn’t compatible either. Wait until 1.2 comes out to update your Growl install.

    For more questions on compatibility you can check this site for a MASSIVE list of software that isn’t always the most updated but should give you a head start on where an app is on compatibility.

     

  • iPhone 3.1 My Butt

    jasonevers 10:37 am on September 14, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: att, iphone, tethering

    Tethering has been my lifeline to the outside world while at the fire station for 24 hours at a time. There are spotty wireless networks here and there but you have to be sitting outside to get decent signal. I had signed up for an ATT data card but when I started tethering my iPhone, I decided to pay the early termination fee and cancel the service. ATT eventually talked me into making it a family plan line for $9/month and credited me $50 all so I wouldn’t cancel the contract. Whatever, it saved me $60/month for 11 months.

    So I’m tethering like a madman and this iPhone version 3.1 business comes out and there’s no way I’m going to upgrade and lose tethering just for some genius functions. I’m listening to suggestions but for the time being I’m just going to wait for help.benm.at to come up with a patch. I don’t want to go crazy. Good luck Ben.

     

  • jasonevers 9:41 am on September 3, 2009 | 5 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: dvi, hassle, macbook pro, rant, vga

    I like my new laptop, don’t get me wrong, but I despise having to have an adapter to plug into different monitors. Digital projector? Where is that VGA adapter… Cinema display at work? Where is that DVI adapter… Why the hell do I have to have an adapter for both in the first place? I should be able to plug into SOMETHING without an adapter. Not to mention each adapter is $30.

    What’s that? The new LED Cinema displays hook up to my laptop with no adapter, power the laptop and provide a USB hub? That’s great but that is one display. Name one more…

    That’s what I thought.

    friggin update: Older Apple Cinema display has crappy obscure DVI plug with rounded corners. Even with an adapter for DVI, my laptop can’t plug into this display without an additional adapter. One day, I won’t need these computers. I’ll just think internet and it’ll happen.

     

    • Allen Hancock 8:13 pm on September 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

    • Allen Hancock 8:14 pm on September 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      but, come on dude… that Apple display is where it’s at.

    • jasonevers 9:18 pm on September 3, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      It’s pretty sweet… looking. $900 for a 24″ monitor eh? Hrmph. Maybe a refurb at $600.

    • Ryan McKern 5:06 pm on September 12, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      That’s not DVI on the old cinema display; It’s ADC (Apple Display Connector) and I’m not positive any MacBook, iBook, or PowerBook ever had that connection. It was a great design but it was one of the “Apple Only” things that just had no place in the modern world of “everything plugs into everything else”

      • jasonevers 10:21 am on September 14, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Yeah, I think this was before any manufacturers had really put DVI on anything to begin with. I have an old display and maybe this’ll get my employer to get me a new display. ADC could allow power, usb and video to all connect through one plug but practicality got the best of them and their newer displays have a single plug that splits into the different interfaces.

  • This Whole Health Care Cluster

    jasonevers 8:43 am on September 1, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: health care, reform, zefrank

    So I don’t know about you but I’ve looked into how hard it would be to understand this health care reform campaign. I’ve been blasted with media from the for and against crews and I love how simple Zefrank can make things sound…. If Ze can’t straighten it out, what chance do I have?

    Update: This is the last time I post flash from Time.com since this is the embed url doesn’t allow me to scale this any larger. Lose.

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  • jasonevers 11:39 am on August 26, 2009 | 2 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: adobe, cs3, cs4, intel, pcc,

    So Adobe just announced that it isn’t going to support CS3 on Snow Leopard so if you upgrade, be warned that if problems exist that they will NOT be fixed. This is on top of the fact that a requirement for Snow Leopard is an Intel processor. So let’s recap: To run Snow Leopard reliably you must have CS4 running on an Intel Mac. This is making the $30 upgrade a bit more costly for a lot of folks…

    Say you get CS4, which isn’t currently supported under PowerPC architecture either, to be compatible, and you grab an Intel Mac. You just paid a minimum of around two grand AND the mac comes with Snow Leopard. This just may be the most expensive $30 you never spent.

     

  • So I don’t post much. Nobody really ke...

    jasonevers 12:34 am on August 18, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Automattic, p2, short format, Twitter, wordpress, wtf

    So I don’t post much. Nobody really keeps a blog up do they? Well, I’m experimenting with a theme called P2 which seems to totally ripoff the idea of Twitter, but if it gets me posting again, who knows. Even stranger, i’s made by Automattic themselves! So I thought, what the hell, why not just DUAL POST! Wordpress can post to twitter and twitter will send it to Facebook and people will see it on all fronts and it’ll get read.

    Then we’ll all get sucked into a black hole for being to distributed.

     

  • BR Alley Cat 4/09

    jasonevers 2:18 am on April 3, 2009 | 0 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: alley cat, Baton Rouge, bike, messenger, race, road bike

    Update: I won this thing, check out the (un)official (this is as close as it gets to underground biking) results here

    Come test your knowledge of the city, it’s traffic, and your legs. Meet North of New Capitol Building
    6:30PM registration, 7PM race, $5 entry, 2 hour time limit
    Helmets and lights are strongly recommended.

    Cash (and prizes?) to Winners? (More …)

     

  • Code Like I Do

    jasonevers 2:18 am on November 5, 2008 | 34 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: App Mod, Green Moleskine, , TextMate

    Cabin Fever or How I dealt with the Purple Plague

    TextMate is PurpleI write almost everything in TextMate. I have written so much code in this great editor that I constantly reach for shortcuts and snippets outside of it, normally resulting in some benign default function of the current app which almost always produces a FAIL. It’s because of this that I’ve taken to writing emails, tweets, wiki entries, blog posts and most everything else I can in TextMate by gathering plug-ins and (More …)

     

    • Brad 3:46 am on November 8, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Utterly outstanding theme! Appreciated by those of us that spend far too long huddled in the tight, but comforting, confines of TextMate, this has certainly given me a fresh outlook!

    • Marco 3:46 am on November 23, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Very very very nice.

      I hope Allan will use a style like this in version 2.

      If only the various document icons would be moleskined it’d be perfect. ;-)

    • Hanni Ross 3:29 pm on November 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Fantastic! Any plans to release a ‘moleskined’ icon for the documents?

    • Jason Evers 3:44 pm on November 24, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Hey Hanni,

      Thanks for the comment. I was throwing the idea around recently and of doc icons and decided that I would do them based on user response. There’d be no use in putting a huge icon list together if:

      1. No one really liked the icon or
      2. Textmate 2 came out within a month or so.

      But if Tm2 doesn’t come out within a month or so and I’m still getting comments and/or requests, I’ll definitely look into it.

    • Patrick 10:14 am on November 26, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you for this wonderful icon. I incorporated most of the “hacks” a long time ago but your icon is a really nice addition.

      Greetings

    • Tyler 11:25 pm on November 27, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      Very nice.
      I love the new icon.

    • Jon Ippolito 2:36 pm on December 4, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      A great help, if only for the WebMate plugin–thanks!

      jon

    • Clayton 6:25 am on December 9, 2008 Permalink | Reply

      moleskin + textmate = happiness; or probably deep inner-guilt for not writing anymore, damn Rails and its addicting sexiness.

    • Shayne 2:07 pm on January 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I really like Green Moleskin :)

      2 questions…

      1) What text theme are you using?

      2) What Quicksilver theme is that, shown in “TMate.jpg”

    • John Plumridge 8:04 pm on January 23, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thank you for this. I appreciate all the fine touches. I also disliked the color purple to work with and the gear! Enjoying textmate for all the good reasons, and this polishes things off. Your design is spot on for textmate and writing – inspiring, inviting.
      The web preview changes have a few clicks ( i used to keep a file from a project opened in its own window). ONe thing only do I dislike in the changes: the preview window in steel, which is not elegant to my mind or , to put it in practical terms, it jars the eye when moving around between views and editors…….frames in general set things apart make them stand out, which is unnecessary when in the background, and preview is usually open in a larger size window anyway , which isn’t so pleasant switching between windows.

      So please fix it for me….this Sunday on your only day off, or you won’t get any pudding.

    • Randy 7:56 pm on January 28, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Brilliant!

    • Mark 5:49 pm on February 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Love it! I would enjoy seeing a “moleskinned” doc icon set. Thanks for putting this together.

    • Rails Developer 3:03 pm on February 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus asking for a doc icon set. Love the editor, hate the purple… Thanks for the fix. :)

    • Hooman 6:24 pm on February 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Am I going blind? I can’t seem to find the file to download. I have done this once before, but after updating to the latest cutting edge, all my beautiful stuff are gone. I am trying to do it again, but I don’t see the download link.

      And, I would live to see document icons. Thanks for the great work.

    • ctaloi 10:58 am on February 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Hooman – I can’t find it either… maybe we’re both blind?

    • ctaloi 10:59 am on February 13, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      My bad – it’s the big green button :)

    • JohnONolan 4:58 pm on February 18, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      LOVE it! Looks SO much better now.

    • Bess Sadler 2:12 pm on March 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Love it! Thank you so much! Everyone asks me about this and admires it when they see it on my laptop.

    • Anonymous 6:42 am on March 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Cool theme, but the plugins are really [bad]. Don’t install them!

      Comment edited by administrator.

    • Michael Johnston 8:28 pm on April 1, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      For me the svn badges do not line up with rows in the project drawer. They seem to expect lines about 1 px larger. However, the linespacing in my project drawer does match that of your screenshot.

    • Hugo Wetterberg 6:44 am on April 2, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I started on a icon set for the most common files and started a git repo with the psd and the icons, feel free to fork and add some more icons.

      http://github.com/hugowetterberg/tm_green_moleskine_icns/tree/master

    • Mike 2:03 am on April 6, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Thanks for the great tweaks, and the plugin pack! You’ve saved me a bunch of hassle, and the UI changes are easy on the eyes.

    • Jake 7:12 pm on May 10, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      For me, Textmate still can’t replace Word and Mellel for long documents. And I do like your icon, although I’d never be sufficiently fastidious about them to think of replacing the Textmate one.

      On a (very) tangential note, if you type a lot and are nerdy enough to have made said new Textmate icons, you might like one of these: a modern Model M keyboard.

    • WTF 4:01 pm on May 11, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I read this entire article [and think the] subject [is AWESOME!]. Upon a third-rereading [I still think the new] Textmate theme [is great and the world needs more of your work].
      *This comment has been modified from it’s original version. It has been formatted to fit my opinion.

    • Nate 1:45 pm on May 15, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Pretty awesome theme/set of plugins. Keep up the good work!

    • will 10:21 am on August 31, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Love it! Thank you :-)

    • defn 6:37 pm on September 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      Heya Jason

      I am having a weird issue with tabs. The top border of my tabs are raised above the rest of the outline of the tabs by about 1-2 pixels. Maybe this is intentional but it almost looks broken. Am I crazy? I’m on snow leopard 64

      • jasonevers 7:59 pm on September 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        Nah, you’re not crazy, but it is definitely a Snow Leopard issue. I may throw in some Snow Leopard-specific tabs graphics if this is an issue that is a bother to people. Thing is, even with the semi-recent assurances of Textmate 2 and it’s development timeline sans any actual information, I am beginning to jones for it pretty bad.

        • defn 5:09 pm on September 27, 2009 Permalink | Reply

          Thanks for the reply,

          It only irked me at first. It’s not really that big of a deal, but if you do have a quick fix graphic that’d be cool.

          Thanks for all of your hard work.

    • Ned Schwartz 2:19 pm on October 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      hi there, I love this. Deals with my periodic “refreshophilia” better than just changing themes.

      You might want to think about updating the folder icons a la: http://www.creative-toolbox.com/2009/03/update-your-textmate-folder-icons-for-leopard/

      I always apply that folder icon update as a separate step.

      • jasonevers 2:38 pm on October 5, 2009 Permalink | Reply

        I’ll have to implement that for sure; It’s much nicer. I’m really just going to have to buckle down and overhaul the whole thing. It seems the reason I started this project has come around again and I’m getting cabin fever. I need a new look and Textmate 2 is officially vaporware to me given Allan’s recent switch from reassurance that 2 is coming to defense of his credibility. Be on the lookout for me pushing the limits of this old app’s interface.

    • Jason Evers 2:48 pm on January 22, 2009 Permalink | Reply

      I have answers!

      1. Blackboard with Panic Sans 11pt
      2. I customized the Cube theme nib and made some nice color choices.

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