Category Archives: geek

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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“Googling” Flash

July 1, 2008 – 2:25 pm

I have to say, this is fairly interesting news. Flash was adopted early by many web-shops wanting to give the user an "integrated media experience" that couldn't be provided by straight html sites. Since then, the tools have been developed to do site analytics of flash web applications, and flash and the flex framework have [...]

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