Category: geek

  • Get BBEdit HTML preview to print background colors

    I realize this is probably something that only I want, but just in case, here it is for Google (and for future me, who has forgotten how to do it).

    Run this in the Terminal:

    bash
    defaults write com.barebones.bbedit WebKitShouldPrintBackgroundsPreferenceKey -bool YES

    Thanks to my pal Jim Correia for figuring that out! He asked me to name a background color in his honor, so I choose “Correia Battleship Gray”.

  • Chemex

    Usually, I’m the only one in my house who likes to have coffee every morning. My wife says she enjoys coffee, but she actually prefers weak “coffee-flavored tea” (as she calls it) with copious amounts of cream and sugar, and more often than not, prefers instant coffee or Roma to real, brewed coffee. I prefered […]

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  • Django

    I’ve been trying to decide how to best go about building a site for a personal project I’ve been working on for a while. I’ve tried building it with a wiki back-end — and used DokuWiki, which is the least annoying wiki software I’ve had the pleasure of using. However, I’ve come to the […]

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  • Motion Tracking for Screen Replacement

    This new video is a great introduction to tracking screen replacements. Imagineer Systems makes Mocha, a planar tracker that will allow you to get excellent tracks of a flat (or flat-ish) surface, often without tracking markers. A lite version, Mocha AE comes bundled with After Effects.

    Obviously, this isn’t a complete solution for iOS developers looking to demo their apps with live hand-held iPhone and iPad shots, but it’s an important piece of the puzzle. Imagineer has another screencast that shows more of what goes into a screen replacement on a touch screen. Even though it demonstrates the final compositing steps with an outdated version of Final Cut Pro, it gives you a good idea of the steps that go into this kind of shot.

  • Alcoholic Drinks Banned from Apple Messages!

    Ahh… I’ve always wanted to write one of those link-bait post titles. Now at least I have a fun excuse.

    I noticed today that in the “Smiley menu” in the Messages compose window, that the alcoholic beverages have been edited out. Normally, in the Objects section of the emoji menu, the order goes Baby Bottle, […]

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