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  • 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 Even though it demonstrates the final compositing steps with an outdated version of Final Cut Pro, it gives you a good idea of the steps that go into this kind of shot.