Archive for the 'OS X' Category
iHome -Releasing your Home Button and more
if you want to feel the power of the capacitive touchscreen we’re using, why not use the iphone exclusively without the home button? Apple did not provide a way to do so, but now we got it!
Usage
- Slide Area
- Home State
1. Short slide from right to left -> Jump to the first page of your apps, just like single press on Home button
2. Long slide from right to left -> Open iPod Control Dialog if it’s playing, like double press on Home button
3. Short slide from left to right -> Open Power Dialog, which includes Lock, ReSpring, Reboot, Power Off and other options
4. Long slide from left to right -> Lock Screen
5. Long press 5 seconds to trigger Screenshot
- Application State
1. Short slide from right to left -> Open Exist Dialog, which includes back Home and iPod control if it’s playing
2. Long slide from right to left -> Quit from the current app, like single press on Home button
3. Short slide from left to right -> Open Power Dialog, which includes Lock, ReSpring, Reboot, Power Off and other options
4. Long slide from left to right -> Lock Screen
5. Long press 5 seconds to trigger Screenshot
Requirement
- Jailbroken iPhone
- Cydia
Links
Time to say Goodbye to QuickSilver?
QuickSilver is our favorite application on the Mac. The great developer of this awesome tool – Nicholas Jitkoff has made it opensource and went to work for google more than a year ago.
Today, the same Nicholas Jitkoff from Google has introduced The Quick Search Box. Which I would believe is a replacement for QuickSilver from now on.
The good things are:
- Same awesome developer and more
- Still opensource
- …
Go ahead grab it for yourself at: http://code.google.com/p/qsb-mac/
Some tips:
- If you have hard time on adding Google Account, please try capitalizing the first letter of your username and domain name, such as ‘Libin.Pan’ and ‘@Gmail.com’
Mac Giving Tree rewards you with free applications
Hope you can see this before it’s gone.
At least you should get 1Passwd for free for today here. It was the first software I’ve bought after I’ve been maced.
MacRuby: Ruby for Mac
Laurent Sansonetti from Apple
Will MacRuby support IPhone?
I don’t answer this question, next question please.
No iPhone today
After a year long waiting, still no iPhone today. Pretty unhappy. Damn you, Rogers!
Anyway, take a minute updated my blog to have a better view on iPhone/iPod Touch.
Welcome to visit http://blog.libinpan.com on your iPhone/iPod Touch!
Want to do it too?
Start from here: http://iwphone.contentrobot.com/
Coda 1.5 entering limited private beta
One of my favorite editor on Mac is Coda, the most important part for me is in their tagline:
Compare with my another favorite editor, TextMate, every time I open it, I will open three more windows at the same time:
- Terminal for running application
- Terminal for mysql
- Browser for view my pages and documents
Coda has all of these and even more:
Text editor + Transmit + CSS editor + Terminal + Books + More = Whoah.
But, on another side, leaking of version control and no powerful bundles as TextMate keep a lot of Ruby developers out of it.
Things may change:
After a lot of work, we’re finally ready to work with some people to test Coda 1.5 — the next major release of Coda — and prepare it for the general public.
…
To enter Coda 1.5 limited private beta, go to:
http://www.panic.com/hive/
If registration is still available, the registration link will be in the upper-right corner of the page. (If there’s no link, we’re full.)
So what’s new in Coda 1.5?
- Better Search and Replace?
- Source Control Support (SVN or Git)?
- Custom Books? Add more Ruby Document in it?
- Better Support for more than one languages mix together in one file?
- …
Stay tuned.
* Unless you want to use more than one window. Which is totally cool.
iftop – Find out who is eating your bandwidth
iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface
How to install?
- Download and install the Universal Binary from here
- Or if you already have MacPort installed
sudo port install iftop
How to use it?
- run “ifconfig -l” or “/Applications/Utilities/Network\ Utility.app” to get your network interface id.
- In my case is ‘en1′, so I just type into Terminal:
sudo iftop -i en1
Enjoy!
Tales From The Command Line: Where Has My Bandwidth Gone?
Keyboard navigation for TextMate stacktraces
Keyboard navigation for TextMate stacktraces
Put this script at the end of /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/script/webpreview.js.
document.addEventListener('keypress', function(e){ var key = e.keyCode if (key != 63233 && key != 63232) return links = document.getElementsByTagName('a') for (var i = 1; i < links.length; i++) if (links[i].title == 'focused') break if (i == links.length) i = 0 links[i].title = null if (key == 63233){ if (i == (links.length - 1)) i = 1 else i += 1 } if (key == 63232){ if (i <= 1) i = links.length - 1 else i -= 1 } links[i].title = 'focused' links[i].focus() })
Incredibly useful when I am running my tests!