Dafacto

The personal website of Matt Henderson.

Neat Finder Tip

Daring Fireball pointed out a really neat Finder tip: Once you've initiated a drag-n-drop in MacOS X's Finders, you switch applications in the middle of the drag. Very neat!

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MacOS X and Linux Metaphor

Another gem from my Irish buddy Niall O Broin. Yet Another MacOS X / Linux Metaphor.

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AddressBook Access from the Command Line

One of the things I've enjoyed most about Mac OS X is watching the emergence of tools that tie the GUI applications to the Unix interface. For example, StuffIt, Speed Download, and Interarchy all

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ESA Launch Mars Express

On June 2nd, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Mars Express space probe. The probe is now on its way towards the red planet, with rendezvous planned for December 24th. This is

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3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference

Well, I thought it was funny. The 3rd Annual Nigerian Email Conference...

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Powerbook Disk Failure

Earlier this week on Monday, my Powerbook's hard drive began making odd chirping sounds. By Wednesday the chirping had degraded to thumping, and on Wednesday night the disk died. Fortunately, due to

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iTunes Blog Integration

Since this website also serves as a technology playground, I've recently integrated iTunes reporting. You can see both the currently playing track in my local iTunes, as well as a listing of the

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Shell Script Launcher

I'm looking for a MacOS X GUI utility to facilitate the launching of shell scripts. Ideally, I'd like to have something running in the menu bar, whose contents reflect a listing of the shell scripts

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RadioLover

All I can say is -- wow. This morning I've discovered an application for MacOS X that is simply awesome. (Ok, maybe the initial wow factor still hasn't worn off.) It's called RadioLover.

RadioLover

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iPhoto Library Manager (Revisited)

For anyone interested, attached below (in the Extended Entry) is the script I run nightly from cron that informs me by email when my current iPhoto Library is getting big enough to consider taking

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