Comments on: "What you’ll find in my Leopard"… and what you won’t

By: Karl Hardisty

Karl Hardisty — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:22:24 +0000

Derek, a worthy read – thanks.

I still have Quicksilver installed, although I haven’t really made the effort to make the move to Spotlight. I think the biggest stumbling block for me will be typing the first letters of what I’m after rather than any combination of letters. For example, for Yojimbo, I type ‘jim’ and hit . As far as I can tell Spotlight doesn’t support this. A small issue all in all, however.

By: Josh

Josh — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 21:54:01 +0000

Why did you mention growl is no longer on your install list? Is there some Leopard replacement for Growl that I’m missing? I love my growl notifications.

By: Derek

Derek — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 09:58:28 +0000

(Safari just doesn’t seem to play nice with WordPress either).

I’ve heard from people complaining that drop down menus did not work in WordPress (admin panel), but I have yet to experience such issues. I use Safari day in and day out. Safari 3 + WordPress 2.3+. What version are you running Simon?

By: Simon T

Simon T — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 08:58:23 +0000

I can’t survive without 1password anymore. DragThing has also become an essential since Apple messed up hierarchical menus in the dock. I also find I now need Camino as a browser because Firefox has gone flakey as regards the WordPress admin backend. (Safari just doesn’t seem to play nice with WordPress either).

By: Derek

Derek — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:17:41 +0000

@Chris I’ll try again. When I saw Quicktime was choking on my Heroes mkv rips I gave up. Maybe I was a little too impatient.

By: Chris J. Davis

Chris J. Davis — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:01:12 +0000

Hmmm, I haven’t had a problem playing my 720p HD .mkv files in Front Row via Perian. I have a low end intel mac mini hooked to my HD LCD TV and everything works fine. Y

You have to wait a couple of minutes for the sme of the video to be loaded into the buffer, but after that it plays fine.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:23:08 +0000

@Derek – Sure! I’d love to help share the luv. I got it up and running pretty quickly even though I’m still a little wary of the command line. Pretty easy:

1) Download the installer package from this fella
2) I had to actually switch over to windows and use winRAR to unpack the file and get a nice clean .dmg file. Weird.
3) launch installer
4) Followed the first 1/2 of this tutorial to make sure SVN was installed properly. Namely this part:

“… if you’ll be running subversion from the command line, and if it’s not already, you’ll need to add /usr/local/bin to your PATH. You’ll also need to set a default editor to use for comments when committing files to the repository. Edit (or create) the file at /Users/username/.bash_profile and add this line to the bottom of the file:
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin
export SVN_EDITOR=/usr/bin/vi (or your editor of choice)
The next Terminal window you open will use this updated path. Congratulations! You have subversion installed.

5) Download and install SVNX: http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/15527
6) Ha! You’ve been fooled. There is not #6. You’re done.

From what I’ve found, SVNX feels a lot more light weight than SmartSVN. From what I’ve heard, Leopard’s implementation of Java is somewhat lame anyway (oddly). The only reason I’ve ever had to jump into the command line was to run an svn-cleanup. No biggie though.

~ Jeremy

By: links for 2007-11-10 (Leapfroglog)

links for 2007-11-10 (Leapfroglog) — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 06:26:58 +0000

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By: Charity

Charity — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 04:48:29 +0000

I just jumped on the bandwagon last week with my very first Mac. Loving it so far. I’m running CS3 Web Premium as well, but CSS Edit was one I was looking at adding to the arsenal. I haven’t tried it yet, but the real-time preview sounds too good to be true!

By: Arnold

Arnold — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:19:07 +0000

Derek,

You placed Perian over VLC? VLC is the ultimate player out there! Sure it may not be as good looking as Perian, but VLC can be used on almost any platform out there. And if you want to capture streaming media feeds, VLC is an excellent solution. It’s all about VLC in my Leopard.