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General 29 Jan 2008 01:06 pm

QuickyFeed

I built up another big list of links and videos for your perusal. I’ve also made the front page a little more light on the videos, so that it doesn’t cause the Wii to OOM.

General 09 Dec 2007 11:54 pm

QuickyFeed

Portal, the flash version (walkthroughs)
Galactic Golf
DiggKiller: a game using the Digg API
Intelligence Test
MIDI Art
Talking Cats (translation)
More after the break

General 06 Dec 2007 11:07 am

Fixing Home/End keys in OS X apps

There are a number of applications in OS X that don’t have ‘correct’ home/end key behavior. I expect it to go to the beginning of the line or end of the line like on most other operating systems.

To fix this, there are a couple places to go. First grab both these versions of KeyFixer, which patch base OS X (which it seems few apps grab their settings from), and Firefox specifically.

Thunderbird and all other Gecko/Mozilla based apps (nvu, komodo, etc) use the same method of doing keybindings as Firefox, but you’ll have to do it the manual way. Here are the steps:

Open the application .app file with ‘Show Package Contents’
Browse to Contents/MacOS/chrome/
Make a backup copy of toolkit.jar, and also copy it to a working directory (like the Desktop for simplicity)
Run ‘jar -xf toolkit.jar’ in that working directory - you should get a ‘content’ directory out
Browse to content/global/
Replace the file ‘platformHTMLBindings.xml’ with the version from the KeyFixer site
Go back to the working directory (cd ../..) and run ‘jar -cf toolkit.jar content/’
Copy the toolkit.jar from your working directory into the application directory (.app/Contents/MacOS/chrome). Your application must not be running for this step.
Startup your application. If you see problems, you can always replace toolkit.jar with the backup you made.

For any of these Firefox/Mozilla/Gecko patches you make, you’ll have to redo it if you upgrade (even with the built-in autoupgrades), as the installer will overwrite the file.

I’ve had to tweak the settings within the Eclipse keybindings too, but at least theres a UI for that. iTerm and some other apps didn’t seem to be affected by the home/end-not-working affliction.

General 06 Dec 2007 09:52 am