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MacFusion is wonderful

I love how it lives in my menu bar so I don’t have to fumble around when I need it. Absolutely the handiest way to mount a share available by ssh or sftp. Built to wrap MacFuse.
MacFusion.

Disable the RSS Preview in Firefox 2

Firefox 2’s new feature of handling RSS with a HTML Preview can be frustrating if you frequently need to see the raw content of an RSS feed.
To disable it and get Firefox 1.x’s behavior back, you can replace the FeedConverter.js file with this modified version. (This is for: Firefox 2.0.0.1) I know it’s terrible to […]

OSX Useability: hieroglyphics

What the heck to do these symbols mean??? C’mon people! For an OS touted for useability, I can’t imagine why they would use confusing symbols like these. At Leas the 2nd glyph is on my keyboard. What are we supposed to think about the first one? Is it a 2 headed snake? perhaps its something […]

Safari’s Date()

A coworker and I wrote a flurry of Javascript recently for Firefox and IE. Soon afterwards I switched my work machine to a G4 Powerbook and I wanted to make our code run in Safari. I came across this funny bug.
Normally, this code:
Date(”10/31/2005 09:30:00 AM”);
gives you a nice Date object initialized to […]