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Category Archives: computers

Disable Google Instant

Google recently added an annoying feature called ‘Google Instant’. When it is enabled, the search results update as you type. A few days after adding this feature, they added a way to disable it. Just go to ‘Seach settings’ and select ‘Do not use Google Instant’. There are many cases where AJAX is helpful, but [...]

Customizing Safari 5 Reader

This applies to all versions Safari 5.0, for Safari 5.1 see my new post. Safari 5 adds an excellent new feature: Safari Reader. This not only pulls the main text out of a webpage—as is done in bookmarklets such as Arc90′s Readability—it also consolidates an entire multi-page article. This greatly improves the legibility and interface [...]

Working with SVG animations

I recently learned more than I ever wanted to know about animated SVGs, browser support of SVGs, and Inkscape. I had some fairly simple animated illustrations I wanted to create, so I drew the pictures I needed in Inkscape. I then added a little code to animate the images. This was surprisingly easy. Safari, Chromium, [...]

OS X’s Services menu

The Apple Services menu is a timesaving feature that has been improved in Snow Leopard. Services were occasionally useful in OS X 10.5, now with 10.6 they are a great feature. Before Snow Leopard, Services weren’t contextual. To run a service called Task, you’d click on Name of active program in the menu bar > [...]

Snow Leopard first impressions

I just upgraded to Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. Since my SuperDrive is dead, I was going to install from a second Mac booted into FireWire drive sharing mode. The install disk refuses to run in this mode. I used OS X disk sharing, but had to first run a couple commands: defaults write [...]