John Gruber discusses an inconsistency with Apple’s cut, copy and paste commands. In Cocoa applications like TextEdit and MarsEdit you get a subtle difference in behavior depending on how you select text. Cut and paste may introduce unintended spaces, which is not helpful when coding. This is the only place I’ve seen the rules explained.

Here are a couple extensions for the OS X ColorPicker and the world’s shortest AppleScript that extend its functionality. Use ColorPicker for lots more than just turning text a different color.

In Five Simple Steps to Typesetting on the web: Printing the Web, Mark Boulton examines the rationale for creating a quality print style sheet and begins to share his own process.

There are many ways to serve up music on your website. You can offer it as a podcast, stream it with Quicktime, Real Media, even Windows Media. You can embed music as a page background in several formats. Or you can offer the music in a downloadable format via regular file transfer or BitTorrent. But, [...]

I’ve been heavily interested in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. It’s the only sporting event that I pay a lot of attention to. So, it’s understandable that I visit sports sites like Sports Illustrated and ESPN. One of things I find really annoying about ESPN is that it loads a Flash movie automatically on every [...]

Introduction You’ve been using a Macintosh for years. You know all the keyboard shortcuts. You can find the Easter eggs hidden in your software. You scoff at Internet Explorer. You even know a few tricks in the Terminal. In other words, you are the resident Mac expert. While you may bask in the reputation you [...]

iPhoto has always been a good consumer level image catalog. And with each new version, just as you would expect, Apple has added features. Now iPhoto 6 coupled with Tiger’s built in editing tools actually gives us a reasonable photo editing tool for our web work.