Shanti’s Dispatches

World Clock Deluxe is an OS X app that lets you setup a few select timezones, which can be configured to hover in the background of your desktop.

Very handy if you work with lots of different people spread out across the globe.

Skitch is pretty much the closest thing I’ve seen to perfection from an integrated Web App + Desktop App experience.

It seems they’ve thought of everything — even selecting the copy & paste code to put into your blog engine requires just 1 click. (they handily paste it into your clipboard for you, with a sexy hover-over note explaining they’ve done so!)

Full-size:

Or view online.

One tiny quibble: the alt tag on the full-size code is “Skitch.com > sbraford” which I think confuses WordPress into thinking an HTML tag is being closed prematurely.

I just posted this to the TextMate users mailing list, but blogs seem to be a great way to harness the wisdom of crowds as well…

In Rails 2.0, the new default for view extensions is ‘html.erb’ instead of ‘rhtml’, and ‘builder.erb’ instead of ‘rxml’.

The only problem is that TextMate uses a generic white icon in the project drawer for all files with the ‘erb’ extension. I’d much rather have sexy icons in the project drawer for each distinct file type, as ‘rhtml’ files have currently.

What I’ve Tried

See this pastie as to how I modified TextMate’s Info.plist (XML tags were not getting escaped by WordPress).

Saved Info.plist, then Quit completely out of TextMate. Next, opened up an existing rails project, but the ‘index.html.erb’ for example, still showed the generic TextMate icon in the project drawer, not the tiny blue globe one that ‘rhtml’ files use. (I really like the way it strikes the eye… what can I say?)

Any ideas?

ps. this is probably completely unrelated, but I also went through Finder and did the ‘get info’ -> ‘change all’ trick to open all ‘ html.erb’ files in TextMate, yet the icon in Finder remains the generic white OSX one, not TextMate’s. Figured that’s an OS X thing but thought I’d mention it just in case.