Free Widescreen Wallpaper!

I use a 24″ iMac. It’s at a resolution of 1920 x 1200 pixels.

I love having my wallpaper rotate every five minutes. My favorite place for free widescreen wallpaper is, without question, Interfacelift. They have a plethora of wallpaper available, as well as free icon sets for your Mac and Windows machines. Check em out!

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TextMate over Remote Drives :: Magnetk’s ExpanDrive

I’ve always noticed TextMate behaves a bit sluggishly when a project contains a good amount of remote file references. I’d much prefer to use TextMate, but end up resorting to the vim editor. I got nothing against vim, by any means, but when modifying many files for one project, it can become cumbersome.

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My Web Development Environment

I often enjoy trying out new software to see if it will improve my efficiency and productivity.

Currently, I develop with some very powerful tools. This article will outline the purpose of each, as well as highlight some pros and cons of the software I use for web development.

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Control Apple G :: Textmate create a new folder doesn’t work

In TextMate, you can create new files by pressing Shift Apple N. You’re supposed to be able to create a new folder by pressing Control Apple G, but it straight up doesn’t work. The same happens to my friend running essentially the same system.

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X-Cart Refresh Templates Cache

    I was migrating an x-cart from our development server over to the live server, and after getting the skin uploaded and selected, I was having a hard time seeing its changes.

    It seemed to take a bit of time before the skin was fully turned over, and I thought it was due to browser cache. I then cleared cache in my browser, but no luck. I opened a fresh browser that I rarely use; no luck.

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Highslide JS

Here’s a pretty nice one for you. This is Highslide JS, a pretty sweet javascript-based popup viewer. This could be really useful for quick photo galleries and widgets! And it’s free for personal use! Thanks, Torstein.

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Cancel iPowerWeb Hosting Nightmare

iPowerWeb has sure given us a real hard time over here. It’s like this: we have a client that both purchased and hosts his domain with ipower. He wished to transfer his domain to our registrar, then point the domain at our servers so we can host his site.

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iCal Holiday Calendar

Cool, I just found this nifty little thing that you can subscribe to in iCal, and it will show all the US Holidays. I’m pretty sure it’ll work even for those holidays that change every year.

iCal US Holidays

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