Tag Archives: OS X
A Slightly Better Systemwide ‘Word Count’ Service for OS X
I previously wrote about and praised John Gruber’s Word Count script, which uses Jesper’s ThisService to add a systemwide service to Mac OS X. I have one minor quibble with it, however. While a word count is invaluable for prose, … Continue reading
Systemwide ‘Word Count’ Service for OS X
John Gruber explained how to set this up a year ago: Back in October my friend Jesper wrote a nifty little utility called ThisService. You give ThisService a script — either AppleScript or any Unix scripting language such as Perl, … Continue reading
Leopard Folder Viewing Sucks
In Mac OS X Tiger: Open a Finder window and navigate to a folder of your choice. Change the view of the folder from Icon to List (assuming default is Icon view). Close the window, open a new Finder window, … Continue reading
OS X Rendering of Light-on-Dark Text (and Site Design)
If you’re viewing this site outside of a feed reader than you’ve undoubtedly noticed that things look a bit different here. That’s because I decided to redo my site design, flipping the contrast from light (text) on dark (background) to … Continue reading