May 5th, 2007
“Sigh. I used to have the strength to argue against such foolishness. Nowadays I’m reduced to nothing more than Grey’s-Anatomy-esque catchphrases. Seriously? Seriously? Do I really have to explain why this is a bad idea? Again? To a bunch of technological virgins who haven’t been fucked yet? Seriously?”
Luckily there are still some people around who get this. Please read, i don’t want to hear about either silverlight, apollo or any of the other crap again. 
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May 4th, 2007
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April 30th, 2007
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April 29th, 2007
If you are anything like me you have probably amassed an iTunes library that would take a nice holiday to wade through. With your iTunes on shuffle you might even run into some tracks you downloaded eons ago, after reading rave reviews on some weird blog, that on second thought sound pretty damn lame. I have always been bothered with iTunes’s lack of a quick way to ‘kill’ tracks. When you are in your library and the track you are listening to is selected you need to hit a key combo and click an ok button just to get rid of it. And when listening to a playlist the delete option is completely missing. So i set out to fix that.
What i came up with is a simple applescript that you can assign to a keyboard shortcut so killing that track is always just a keystroke away. Think that’s neat? Please follow along…
step 1
Download and unzip the Kill Track Applescript file.
step 2
Enable the script menu with the Applescript utility located in the Applescript folder in the Applications folder.
step 3
Copy the script to your ~/Library/iTunes/Scripts folder. (create the Scripts folder if it does not yet exist).
step 4
Open System Preferences and go to the Keyboard & Mouse preferences panel. Go to the Keyboard Shortcuts tab and add the Kill Track menu option for iTunes and pick a shortcut.
step 5
That’s it! The next time you’ll open iTunes you’ll see the little scripting menu icon in the top and it’ll have the Kill Track option there together with the keyboard shortcut. Next time you feel like hatin’ a track; hit the shortcut and kill it. I promise you’ll feel better afterwards.
The script automatically removes the track from your library and removes the file from disk.
Disclaimer: this script comes with no warranty whatsoever, use at your own risk. Your computer might turn green and go poof if you use it.
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April 28th, 2007
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April 26th, 2007
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April 22nd, 2007
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a blog about freelancing
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geocoding component
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extremely simple xls writer
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yet another way of doing validation in cake. must test this in 1.2
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web based deployment and svn repository
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create color schemes
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download color schemes
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April 21st, 2007
Then someone made a joke: why doesn’t Dabble pick colors automatically when customers upload a logo? Discussing it further, we decided we weren’t joking. Our graphic designer Luke was somewhat doubtful, but we thought it would be a cool feature, so we dove in.
The boys at Dabble figured out how to build an automatic color scheme based on an uploaded company logo. Pretty damn neat.
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