Author Archives: ryan

Quicksilver Adium Message Script

August 7, 2008 – 8:59 pm

The Adium plug-in for Quicksilver has been kaput for quite a while now, and I have found myself as of late with folks at work I need to contact who keep themselves in the invisible state in their messenger (like my manager ;-). I have come to loath having to go to Adium and go [...]

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quicksilver, curl, applescript, proxy-config, twitter

August 5, 2008 – 7:11 pm

This explains how to use Quicksilver to send posts to Twitter from within a firewall. I made this my little lunch project today. First, let's start with the basics. If you set up your work proxy server in your network config, there is not really any way to easily retrieve those settings. Let's say you [...]

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Breakaway Saves My Ears

July 30, 2008 – 11:15 am

I wrote a post a while back about the pesky habit of my MacBook Pro trying to make me go deaf. I plug my laptop into a stereo via the headphone jack at home and listen to music. In order to get the sound levels right at home, I increase the volume to full volume [...]

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