Shanti’s Dispatches

Someone at work just old me about Visor, a very cool application by the same guy who developed Quicksilver.

Set a hot-key (a la Quicksilver), which when pressed will trigger a Terminal.app console window to pop down from the top of the screen. When finished, use the same hot-key to pop the terminal window back up. (would be nice if ESC worked here, like QuickSilver, but I can’t complain =))

Chris points to this top secret list of what’s new with Apple’s upcoming Leopard OS X release.

Pirillo writes:

I’m impressed with what I’ve read, but I don’t know if it’s enough to get Windows users to switch to a more expensive platform that only has one mouse button (which is the one thing holding me back from scoring a MacBook Pro).

I love making fun of the whole one mouse button thing too. I couldn’t live without my two-button mouse + 20″ Dell LCD flatscreen. (attached to my mac mini)

For those who have ever contemplated switching but were baffled by the one-button thing, or worried about Mac-only hardware, etc. ..

Let me assure you:

- you can use any USB (two-button) PS/2 compatible (just about all of em) mouse on the market with your mac
- you can plug just about any modern flatscreen commodity LCD monitor into your Mac

All this talk about expensive Apple hardware — the only real thing you need to buy from Apple itself is the Mac. For LCD screens, mice, keyboards, etc. — I prefer my old, inexpensive Dell commodity stuff.

I thought this was a problem only associated with Microsoft updates! Apparently not!

If you compiled Ruby from source, following instructions from this Hivelogic tutorial, the latest OS X Tiger update may have killed your symbolic link to Ruby 1.8.4.

(This assumes you had installed Ruby 1.8.4 to /usr/local and had symbolically linked to this binary from /usr/bin/ruby)

Simple enough solution though:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv ruby ruby.back
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby

Now try a “ruby -v” and you should see 1.8.4 as the version.

(In defense of OS X — at least I’m not rebooting into 8bit, 16color 800×600 resolution on my 20″ flatscreen, as has happened w/ MS updates before.)