Always keep an application open

MacOSXHints.com

If you have some app that you always want to keep open -- in my case it's Stickies and DragThing, which I use frequently -- it's easy to set up the computer to do that for you. For example, to keep Stickies permanently open, remove Stickies from the login…

20 June 2011

Is Facebook's Project Spartan going after Apple's app lock?

TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Facebook was apparently spurned by Apple in favor of Twitter for close integration in iOS 5, but the social networking giant is now moving ahead with plans to bypass the App Store with an upcoming HTML5 web app aimed at Mobile Safari -- Project Spartan.…

16 June 2011

Searching Twitter with iOS

Use Your Loaf

Copyright © 2019 - K Harrison Privacy and Cookies Terms of Use, 19 June 2013: The Twitter API v1 has now been discontinued meaning that the search URL used in this post will no longer work. I have updated the example code to use the new Social framework…

16 June 2011

Native Linux KVM tool v2

LWN.net

The second iteration of the Native Linux KVM tool (a QEMU replacement for KVM) has been posted. The tool now has graphics support, SMP support, networking, file I/O said to be faster than QEMU, and more. The developers are now "officially aiming" to get…

15 June 2011

CSS Animations, part 2

Planet Mozilla

On to Improving font size readability on Firefox for Android A few months ago, I wrote about landing support for CSS animations in Firefox. I want to say a little more about how CSS animations are useful. First, they make it easy for authors to write…

15 June 2011

Cloning a Debian system - identical packages and versions

Debian GNU/Linux System Administration Resources

I have long wished for the ability to install a Debian system specifying both the package list and the exact versions of the packages installed. dpkg --get-selections | ssh newhost dpkg --set-selections is useful but always chooses the latest version, and…

15 June 2011

What we talk about when we talk about RSS

inessential.com

(Disclaimer: I started working with RSS even before creating NetNewsWire nine years ago. I still very much want NetNewsWire to succeed. But know that I don’t speak for NetNewsWire or for its new owner, Black Pixel.) VARIETIES OF RSS When we talk about RSS,…

15 June 2011