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March 18, 2009
Yeah.. that’s right. Your mac-mini died yesterday and now yer looking how to restore your files to another machine.. (or even the whole OS?) I had to do a bit of research.. but I found that option-click’ing on the time machine icon (in the dock or on the top bar) will give an option to “Browse other Time Machine Disks”.
Do that, select the disk (assuming you have it mounted to your current machine) and from there, move down one finder window in time machine. The first window will be looking at your current system.. the second window belongs to your Time Machine backup. From there, find the folder or file you want to restore and there ya go. Keep in mind, this could overwrite your current files.. be careful what you restore
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October 9, 2008
I have been a Firebug aficionado ever since it was released and it has made my job so much nicer. I can’t say how much I owe to Firebug.. but there is always room for competition — which is what is happening with Opera and Safari/Webkit. I am really happy to have options. With that said, there is always room for improvement.
Lets start off with the wants:
Elements View: I want to see image dimensions when I hover over the markup instead of seeing the src, which I can see already right there in the markup.
I want the ability to write in new rules to the styles section of the page. Right now, the only way to do that is to write over one of the already existing rules. With firebug, it just requires double-clicking in the rules area.
I also want the ability to hide the computed styles. I hate inspecting a new element and having to go back to the styles pane to minimize the computed styles every time. I use computed styles 0.5 percent of the time.
I would also love to see a line number for the css in the styles pane. It’s really easy to track down the rule when a line number is there.
Of course, this is just about the css. when I get a chance, I will see what it does with javascript.
And regarding the positive things? It’s very solid. It’s snappy. It has a very friendly interface which is easy to get around. Oh and I love the Dom scoping thing at the bottom of the page. I can double-click a certain section of markup in the right pane and I get a focus on only that markup and it’s children. Very nice!
I am excited to see what the future brings for both Opera’s and Webkit’s developer tools.
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October 3, 2008
Dearest Firebug..
We have been together for a long time now and you have shown me so much about the web, that I never knew existed. In turn, I have given you all of my attention. I have explored every facet of you, and I have been happy with you, just the way you are.
But lately, you just havent been the same. Ever sinceI got he new Firefox 3 to drive about the streets in, you just haven’t been the same to me. There are times when you give me the silent treatment and wont even respond to me until I get out of Firefox 3 and get back in. I have even caught you telling me an element is styled, when it’s not! Why the lies!! I even tried driving around in Firefox 2 again, but you just dont respond the way you used to.
I am writing this letter to say that I am sorry, because I have been seeing two other’s lately. They dont mind sharing. And they have blossomed into such great companions lately. They like to drive around in Opera 9.5 and WebKit (it’s a prototype model) and I must say they are a treat to drive. But I digreess…
What? You want to know their names? Well, one is called DragonFly (but I dont think that’s her real name) and the other, well, she is called Web Inspector. She has a dry name, but she’s wild once you get her on the info-highway.
Please, dont be jealous. I have tried to make it work, but with these other girls out there, I cant resist anymore. I’ll come see you every once in awhile, just not as often. And if you stop the lies and unresponsiveness, I’ll come back to you. But for now, I’ll be seeing these other two more often right now.
Longing to see you back to your old self… -screwlewse
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August 1, 2008
I hate having to go to a page every time I need dummy text like lorem ipsum. So I searched out for a random dummy text generator for my beloved TextMate. Unfortunately, the ones I did find, required another language installed, like Ruby, so I looked into creating one for bash. (since bash is installed by default and it’s the default language for making TM commands.
I created array’s of dummy paragraphs, then I echoe’d one of those paragraphs randomly.
Here is the code.
ARRAY[0]=”Auf ya strudel octoberfest hinder …”
ARRAY[1]=”Auf nine die stoppern nine nicht …”
ARRAY[2]=”Sauerkraut leiderhosen du er strudel …”
ARRAY[3]=”Poppin stoppern pukein, frau mitten …”
ARRAY[4]=”Verboten handercloppen zur hast spitzen …”
ARRAY[5]=”Glockenspiel flippin oof sparkin achtung …”
ARRAY[6]=”Rubberneckin blitz pretzel weiner heiden …”
ARRAY[7]=”Ya frau sightseerin noodle thinken stoppern …”
ARRAY[8]=”Deutsch, unter der meister spritz pretzel …”
ARRAY[9]=”Bin octoberfest sauerkraut meister hinder …”
echo ${ARRAY[((RANDOM%10))]}
and here is how to add it to your Textmate or BBEdit.
Textmate's command editor window with all it's settings
So I hope that helps, for those of you whom want an easy way to add dummy text to their coding.
type “lipsum” and press TAB..
Oh you say, you want to know where I got the dummy text?
That’s pseudo-german, using the Greeking Machine at Duck Island.
Or get regular Lorem Ipsum at www.lipsum.com.
