Category Archives: geek

Quickfix for Quicksilver Triggers Preferences

I saw several references to the problem I was having with the Triggers preferences in Quicksilver in different blogs. At issue? Well, the Triggers preferences would give me a spinner and never load. All the posts I read discussed how the app is not currently in active development and kind of left it at that [...]

Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji on iPhone

Here is a really quick and rough tutorial for enabling the Japanese keyboard on your iPhone, which allows you to type in hiragana, katakana, and kanji. For some reason, even though there is rumor that the iPhone will be making its way sometime not too far from now to Japan, the Japanese language keyboard is [...]

Scraping Source in Safari

Here is an applescript solution for grabbing the html code from a page online. This is particularly handy if you are trying to grab the code from a page that you need to login to. I am sure there is a much better solution out there, but this one seems to work for me ok.
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