Thanks to GeekTool.
Sometimes GeekTool will freeze – not often, but occasionally.
This Applescript will restart GT – you’ll need to modify it for your own system, of course.
do shell script "killAll GeekTool"
delay (2)
do shell script "open /Users/USERNAME/Library/PreferencePanes/GeekTool.prefPane/Contents/Resources/GeekTool.app"
end
I’ve been wondering how to get Firefox Bookmarks into Spotlight – useful for those rarely used bookmarks. This Hint seems to get it half done, in converting the Firefox bookmarks into .webbookmark files.
It seems to me (haven’t tried it yet, job interview this morning) that you could use RCDefaultApp to set the default for .webbookmark from Safari to Firefox.
Now it’s time for cron jobs and pearl scripts – but that’s for another time.
As you can see, the webpage ribbon has changed. Colours don’t quite match, but it’s a work in progress.
Little Gamers has a webpage ribbon on the top left of their webpage. I thought this was rather cool and tried to work out how to do it myself – couldn’t do it. I don’t know enough…yet. I did find This Guide, but I couldn’t work out how to add it to WordPress.
A little Googling found this WordPress Ribbon plugin. As you can see at the top left it’s working. I’m not done yet.
Plans – since it’s a gif, I can make it animated. Currently, I’m planning on adding a Made in Australia tag. Maybe a Made On a Mac one as well.
Watch This Space.
Around and around we go…
And broke it again. Well, at least I know I’m on the right track.
Ha! Finally got it working. On the right you should see my quote database – some 3,500 quotes.
To understand some of what I’m talking about below, check the instructions at Lorelle’s Blog.
Using the instructions at Lorelle’s blog I changed the formatting from the one required by Fortune to one that phpAdmin can read. Took me a few hours fiddling before I worked out what I was doing wrong.
Lorelle has instructions about replacing any commas in your quotes.. However a lot of my fortunes have commas in them – so I changed the Fields Terminated from the comma suggested by Lorelle to a ; instead. Loaded no worries.
Now I’m going to need to find another thing to fix here.
