Need to debug AJAX? Beside some tips I found on the Net, here is one I found particularly useful, at least in my current case. Just use a
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/access_log
Or
tail -f /private/var/log/apache2/error_log
which displays the latest log entries… which can help to solve some major issues.
Adobe® kuler is an online community where you can explore, create, and share color themes. The color themes in kuler are contributed by its users, many of them designers or in the creative business. You can share with the community your own chromatic ingenuity, too.
Lithoglyph’s Mondrianum enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X. Apple’s own iWork™ and iLife® suites, Google Sketchup™, Adobe® Photoshop®, and renowned applications like Coda, CSSEdit, and many more, all work well with Mondrianum.
BookBook is a one-of-a-kind, hardback leather case designed exclusively for MacBook and MacBook Pro. Available in Classic Black or Vibrant Red, BookBook brings three levels of security to your prized Mac. First, the hardback cover and spine provide solid protection from the rigors of the road. Second, the vintage book design disguises MacBook for superior security. And third, the stylish case protects you from being like everyone else because BookBook is totally original, just like you.
ColorSchemer Studio 2 is a professional color-matching application for your Mac that will help you build beautiful color schemes quickly and easily. Use ColorSchemer Studio to identify color harmonies for the web (RGB) or print (CMYK), create palettes from photos, search over a million existing color schemes, mix colors, create gradient blends, and much more!
As usual: Everything which comes out of Apple’s Shop looks great. Here is the “Environmental Page”, with great graphics, nice graphs, and lot’s of white space… Bravo!
Nice, very nice, the new Safari 4. But, I prefered a couple of things in the old version, such as the Tabs below the top part of the browser, and the loading status bar. Here are the commands how to bring them back.
Creates a birthday calendar in iCal from the contacts in Address Book. Unlike the built-in birthday calendar in iCal, this action allows you to set an alarm for each birthday. You can also combine this action with other actions to publish your ICS file to a web or file server.
CoRD is a Mac OS X remote desktop client for Microsoft Windows servers using the rdp protocol. It is easy to use, fast, and free for anyone to use or modify.
3-2-1 is a countdown timer for Dashboard (OS X). It displays hours, minutes, and seconds, includes a lap function and is resizable. You can label each countdown (useful if you run more than one at a time), enter your own messages (to appear when a countdown has finished) and choose any sound to play.
Nice little Dashboard Widget, which communicates with the Email ToDo List.
When you open a Finder window and start browsing to a folder, do you lose track of the path to that folder? If you do, the Terminal command below will enable path view in the Finder — this means that you will see the directory path to the current folder you are browsing in the title bar, instead of only seeing the name of the current directory.
To make directory paths visible atop Finder windows, open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/) and type the following command:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES
Convert the horizontal views of your mails into vertical. Is nice, but in principal not too much useful if you stick with one of the major time management rules: Don’t have more than 20 mails in your incoming folder!
Do you like the media browser that Apple includes in some of its applications, but wish you could use it from any application? Now you can.
Download the free Karelia iMedia Browser and use it whenever and wherever you need to access your library of photos, music, videos, and bookmarks. (Requires Mac OS X 10.4 “Tiger” or 10.5 “Leopard.”)
This is a really cool app. Store your clips and visualize it really nicely. And by App from where the Clip originates. Really nice. But not cheap.
CodeIgniter is based on the Model-View-Controller development pattern. MVC is a software approach that separates application logic from presentation. In practice, it permits your web pages to contain minimal scripting since the presentation is separate from the PHP scripting.
The Model represents your data structures. Typically your model classes will contain functions that help you retrieve, insert, and update information in your your database.
The View is the information that is being presented to a user. A View will normally be a web page, but in CodeIgniter, a view can also be a page fragment like a header or footer. It can also be an RSS page, or any other type of “page”.
The Controller serves as an intermediary between the Model, the View, and any other resources needed to process the HTTP request and generate a web page.
CodeIgniter has a fairly loose approach to MVC since Models are not required. If you don’t need the added separation, or find that maintaining models requires more complexity than you want, you can ignore them and build your application minimally using Controllers and Views. CodeIgniter also enables you to incorporate your own existing scripts, or even develop core libraries for the system, enabling you to work in a way that makes the most sense to you.
This simple Terminal hack will create a custom Stack on the Dock that will show your recently opened applications. Just open Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities/) and type in the following command:
defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
Once you type in the command, you will need to restart the Dock by typing “killall Dock” and pressing enter. If you decide you don’t want the newly created Stack, just drag it off the Dock like any other Stack.
Nice little app that enables not only taking screenshots, but, which really makes it interesting, permits to draw directly on the screenshots (notes, arrows etc.), to store it for further use and, really slick, can send it over to a website, from where you can use the URL to insert it into forum threads etc.
Smart Scroll offers smooth and easy iPhone-like scrolling:
Nice widget for count down. Here.
Great screencapture tool!