Black Holes and Snowy Mountains

In general, just moving an application to the Trash will only leave behind a few preference files that only take up kilobytes of space on your hard disk. For those of you want don’t even want these files, you’ll need to use a specialized application to find and remove them. Here are 4 applications that find the files associated with an application and move them to the Trash.

Note: If the application you want to remove comes with its own uninstaller, I always recommend using that first- especially for large, commercial programs like those in the Microsoft Office Suite or in the Adobe Creative Suite.
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One of the most popular questions on the Macrumors Web Design and Development forum is “What is a good HTML Editor for OS X?” Here’s a list of the most popular suggestions. While many of the editors I will list have other advanced functions, for now I am writing this for those who want to create a basic webpage containing images, CSS, and perhaps some PHP for those looking to start or maintain a blog. This is what I use my HTML editor for, and I’m sure more advanced users will have stronger opinions.

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I was registering for something yesterday and came upon this captcha to confirm that I was a real person.
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Darren Rowse has posted his latest entry in the “31 Days to Build a Better Blog” series about Joining a Forum and Start Participating. A commenter asked experienced forum users to share some etiquette. Since much of my traffic comes from forums like MacRumors, I thought I would share some insight.

1. Tread lightly- do not immediately dive into a discussion about site mechanics, forum rules you don’t agree with, or get into direct disagreements with long-standing members about such things. You just come off as looking foolish, and you will start off on the wrong foot with basically everyone.
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For the most part I can’t stand the Apple power adapters. Initially they’re OK- nice and shiny and a refreshing, clean white. Then after a few months of use they get dirty, the little wings that hold the cord break off, and you lose the little corner piece that allows you to plug the brick into the outlet.

You might think that if you lose that little piece you have to buy a whole new adapter, which isn’t totally out of the question considering Apple’s usual method of forcing you to buy an Apple-only replacement. Fortunately, that’s not the case.
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One of the plugin updates killed the RSS Feed for the site. I had to expunge the old feed from the system and set up a new one, but it should be working now and has been given prime screen real estate for its trouble.

My apologies to those who were already signed up, you’ll need to do it again. On the bright side, this “fix” should be permanent. If there is a problem, leave a comment or send me an email. Thanks!

Technorati Tags: RSS, Feedburner, problems, bugs, upgrade

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Here’s my meek plea for you to leave comments.

Why?

• They give me something to read and respond to when I’m bored at work (which is often).
• It gives you an opportunity to point out my factual or subjective errors in reasoning (who doesn’t love that?).
• It’s easy to do. As long as you provide “a” name, “an” email address, and something that isn’t blatantly spam (i.e. no comments of “HUAHhfjsssjsjjjkioOUYATSID”) you can leave one.
• If you have a blog, you can put your website into the field and I will in turn look at it and comment on your posts. More comments mean more people are likely to read the comments, which in turn leads to greater exposure for everyone. Win-win-win!
• You can now edit your comments thanks to the WP Ajax Edit Comments plugin.  I’m investigating some other plugins, but it will take some fiddling with the CSS to make them compatible.  Any suggestions?

As usual, thanks for visiting.  Leave a comment

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I do not pretend to have any sort of designers’ eye, but the new Facebook offends even my sensitivities. It seems like every new version keeps getting worse and worse, and while I have been tempted many times to remove my account I ultimately decide it’s not worth it since Facebook can’t be trusted to remove my information in the first place.

What follows is a list of things from a stylistic standpoint of the shortcomings of the new Facebook layout. I tried very hard to avoid attacking all of the useless new “features,” but in some cases I discuss them if they have relevance to the site’s design.
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Everyone has their own favorite list of applications. Here are some great applications for OS X that I find indispensable. This list, especially the free apps and those already included with Leopard, could also serve as a great starting point for a switcher just starting to find their way around.

1. BBEdit (Text editor)- An absolutely phenomenal text editor, the new version (9.1) is a huge improvement over previous versions when dealing with multiple files. It comes with all the features you’d expect from a powerful text editor, including syntax highlighting for almost every language you can thing of, built-in FTP, and regular expression matching. I’ve also found that BBEdit opens large files (10 megabytes and larger) faster than Textmate. $125 single user/$49 educational license.
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This will solve somewhere between 99.8 and 99.9 of all computer problems. Can we please start using JGI (just google it) as a more general version of RTFM?
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