Comments on: Workspace Restoration

By: Flirt Kontaktanzeige

Flirt Kontaktanzeige — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 23:53:07 +0000

Getting a Pwoerbook was also on my mind, but i had to skip it because of the costs.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 14:27:35 +0000

I found a round about way to get an older version of Transmit. If you download the Transmit 3 demo you can then FTP to panic.com and it will not ask for a login or password and will show you an archive folder that will allow you to pull from past versions (including point releases) to download.
Logging in by any other FTP client didn’t reveal this folder.

By: echo

echo — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:18:50 +0000

I can send you the last version of Calendarclock.
Assuming you have access to the email I entered.

By: Bert C

Bert C — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 22:36:46 +0000

I found your site looking for a solution to the problem of disappearing mouse pointer in OSX:
http://www.latext.com/pm/comments/295_0_1_0_C/

So I’m going to try your Mouseposé to reveal the pointer next time this bug happens again.

By: Geoffrey Sneddon

Geoffrey Sneddon — Sun, 03 Apr 2005 17:19:49 +0000

Get your hands on Transmit 2? I’ve got the original .dmg here, so, I wouldn’t mind giving you it… *Notices Ryan’s comment, kicks self*

Sheetspeed… Oh 5 seconds is nice for a littl’ fun… Now I’ve got it at the default again, it seems to fast :D

Mouseposé will definatly help me… Easy to lose a cursor on a 30″ Cinema Display HD…

As for BBedit, why not just use SubEthaEdit for every thing… And for people who want it here is a syntax highlighting for PHP and HTML for those who want it as highlight_string(); does it….

By: James Sumners

James Sumners — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:25:22 +0000

I just recently got my first Mac, a lovely new PowerBook, and one of the things that I had to have was a better clock for the menu bar (I think that is what it is called any way). I am used to a clock like Gnome's that displayes the full date beside the time and offers a calendar when clicked. I ended up finding wClock. My only problem with it is the calendar function doesn't work if it is set to start up on login. Since I hardly ever reboot it isn't too much of a problem to just restart the clock when I do. Hopefully that little bug gets fixed though.

By: Ryan J. Bonnell

Ryan J. Bonnell — Fri, 01 Apr 2005 04:27:57 +0000

Eric,

I’ve had the same need as you to install MySQL locally on my PowerBook, and until recently used to install the same packages from Server Logistics like you mentioned. However, last week I came across the MAMP (Macintosh, Apache, MySQL, PHP) project. With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X! MAMP installs a local server environment in a matter of seconds.

MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily. MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files!

http://www.mamp.info/en/home/

What’s more, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” OS X).

Now it’s even easier than before to locally work with a content management system (like WordPress, Movable Type, or TextPattern) on your Mac.

P.S. – If the gang from Panic doesn’t get back to you quickly (I doubt this to be the case) I have a copy of the Transmit 2.6.2 installer you’re welcome to help yourself to — just e-mail me and I’ll make it available to you. Best of luck getting your PowerBook back.

By: Molly E. Holzschlag

Molly E. Holzschlag — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:18:12 +0000

This is awesome, Eric. As a person with a new PowerBook, this information will be invaluable to me. Thanks! :)

By: Dave Fayram

Dave Fayram — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 18:23:35 +0000

Eric, everyone loves Quicksilver so much because it’s getting a lot better really fast. With the right plugins, the speed with which you can do things is really surprising.

For example, last night I wanted to paste one of my del.icio.us bookmarks onto IRC for consumption. Instead of tediously opening my browser, finding it, copy-link-location, switchback, yadda yadda… I hit cmd-space (quicksilver), del-=> (open del.icio.us integration, now I have a searchable list), “LatentSI” (now I have the LSI article selected, I didn’t even remember its full name,just a keyword from the title and some other letters), then I hit TAB-”p”-ENTER, and BAM, right into the IRC window.

I can open up whole projects with less than 7 keypresses into ProjectManager or TextMate.

Well, you get the idea. Quicksilver is really worth a deep look. It grows on you really quickly, especially when you have the right plugins and you tweak it a bit.

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 15:38:13 +0000

I concur on the Cyberduck recommendation. Incidentally, Transmit 3 is worth the price of upgrade if you intend to stick with Transmit.

By: Jahnoth

Jahnoth — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:57:46 +0000

I’ve got a .dmg of Transmit 2.6.2 if you’d like it. I’d agree with the previous comment about 3.0 being worth the upgrade, though.

By: dave

dave — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 07:39:47 +0000

Eric,

You talked about wordpress what do you think about this?
http://www.waxy.org/archive/2005/03/30/wordpres.shtml

Dave

By: Brian Fox

Brian Fox — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 06:32:16 +0000

I agree with some of our newly installed apps, however I really dislike anything to do with APE – most APE plugins (and really the engine itself) seem to be such a stability problem, that they negate the usefullness of the apps. I also tried Thurderbird for a while, but really like Mail’s IMAP handling much better – it just seems like a “finished” application.

By: Darkside

Darkside — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 05:52:01 +0000

I feel your pain about the repair lag; my Aluminum PowerBook is there, and has been there and on hold for over a week now. Thankfully, I never sold my old TiBook, so I can use Carbon Copy Cloner and pretend nothing about my workspace is different. Sad that Apple’s hardware and repair service has degraded to the point of needing a backup computer…

For those that don’t know, you can check the status of your Apple repair at
http://www.apple.com/support/selfservice/status/

You need an Apple ID for the login, and to find your specific repair info, the serial number and your ZIP Code or the Dispatch ID (my recent Dispatch IDs have started with “G”, followed by 9 digits). The Apple Authorized repair center I deal with refers to the Dispatch ID as the “Claim Number”, so pay more attention to the ID’s format than what it’s called.

More often than not, it will be on (seemingly indefinite) Hold, with such stunning detail as “Awaiting Part” or “Need More Info”. Sometimes, they even contact you when they need more info. Don’t count on it, though.

By: Roy Schestowitz

Roy Schestowitz — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 04:42:04 +0000

This long procedure of installing and recovering software reminds me why I prefer comprehensive Linux distributions. Don’t you wish you could install OS X with everything else pre-loaded? The redundant bits do no harm. Also, you can distribute everything on several machines, without any repeated effort. Something to think about…