Recently, I discovered that one can hold a window while switching Spaces in Leopard. The window can then be dropped onto any other space. This, of course, isn’t the only way to move a window to another space. But, I like this better than dragging windows off the screen.
Here’s how it’s done:
Grab the window you wish to move by clicking and holding with the mouse.
Switch spaces directly (default: ^ Number Key) or with the arrow keys (default: ^ Arrow Key).
Drop the window on the desired space.
The movie below shows these steps in action. On my keyboard, using the arrow keys to switch spaces is cumbersome, so I usually use the ^ Number Key combination to switch directly to the space I want.
I can’t decide if Hello Kitty bike tires are the ultimate in cycling kitsch or an excellent preventative measure against wheel theft. After all, is the common bike thief going to want to get caught riding around town on white-walled Hello Kitty tires?
Even if the cute factor of these tires is too much for you, check out Nirve’s site for some other excellent treads for your rig.
Need to kill a bit of time? Check out befuddlr. It rearranges flickr photos so that you can try to put them back in order as fast as possible. There’s even a bookmarklet you can use to befuddle any photo you please on flickr.
Dan Benjamin at Hivelogic has some excellent guides for setting up all sorts of things on a Mac that relate to Rails development. His guide to installing MySQL on OSX is no exception. It takes you through the steps of downloading, compiling and installing the MySQL source code on your local machine. If you want MySQL on Leopard, this is probably the best way to go. There currently is no installer package for Leopard and while there is a package for Tiger, it is not without issues. Besides, it’s so much more fun to compile from source.
Fallen Rogue has a succinct tutorial on implementing drag & drop lists on Rails. It also touches on implementing acts_as_list. This tutorial and the referenced sample application was good way to get drag & drop lists working quickly in my own application.
GMail’s IMAP support has made a lot of people happy. I’m one of those happy people. I’m even happier now that I’ve configured Apple Mail and my iPhone by following this How-to on Proper Gmail IMAP.
This short guide picks up where the GMail help file leaves off. Basically, it walks you thorough mapping folders on your device(s) to the right server folders so that email ends up in the right places. It makes things work a lot better, especially if you are using multiple devices together with the GMail web interface.
Chances are, you or someone you know has been touched by some form of identity theft. According to this article in the New York Times, about one third of reported identity theft cases involve new account fraud. This is when someone opens a new account using someone else’s personal information then, uses said account as their own. This sort of fraud takes the longest to detect, but it could be easily prevented if consumers were allowed to freeze their credit.
The good news is that it is possible to institute such a freeze on one’s accounts. But, it is probably not free nor easy. The above mentioned article states that 39 states have enacted credit freeze laws that ensure that the three credit bureaus offer consumers the ability to freeze and unfreeze their credit as needed. Each state, however, has different regulations. This requires more work on the consumers’ part than is really necessary.
First of all, consumers should be able to freeze and unfreeze their credit free of charge. Secondly, if the credit bureaus can’t voluntarily put their heads together and figure out how to make this work well for everyone, federal law should mandate it. Identity theft costs businesses and consumers millions of dollars per year and this is a sure-fire way to eliminate a fair amount of it.
If you are interested in learning more about how to protect your personal information, you can wade through the information on the Consumers Union identity theft Web site. At minimum, you should take advantage of the free, annual credit reports that are currently available to everyone.
An animator faces his own animation in deadly combat. The battlefield? The Flash interface itself.
A stick figure is created by an animator with the intent to torture. The stick figure drawn by the animator will be using everything he can find – the brush tool, the eraser tool – to get back at his tormentor. It’s resourcefulness versus power. Who will win? You can find out yourself.
– This took three long months.. i think it’s worth it.
I can’t decide if Hello Kitty bike tires are the ultimate in cycling kitsch or an excellent preventative measure against