Chromium Nightly
August 30, 2009
Chromium Nightly will download the latest build for Chromium automatically every day at 6:30 PM.
The developer build of Chrome for mac (Chromium) is coming around nicely. It isn’t the featureless beast it was just a few months ago and i’m using it as my primary browser now. This alongside Safari which keeps crashing and hanging on me for no apparent reason, but Chromium lacks RSS support and isn’t too good with HD-flash video, so i’m stuck wih it for now. Read the rest of this entry »
Dropbox in Snow Leopard (part deux)
August 30, 2009
You can do a lot of neat little things with the new automator services-template. In my last post I wrote about making a litle automation to replace a feature that wasn’t in dropbox in Snow Leopard, but you can go further. Why not make the service copy any selected file over to the dropbox public folder and then copy the public URL to the clipboard.
It’s basically the same automation as in part one, but the applescript does more:
(UPDATED)
Dropbox in Snow Leopard (part one)
August 30, 2009
For some reason Dropbox doesn’t fully work in Mac OSX 10.6. You can upload files and whatnot, but one feature I really liked, isn’t there (yet).
The feature that is still missing at this point is being able to copy the public URL of the file to the clipboard to send it through IM or in a forum, etc. Using automator’s new services-feature, you can easily make something like this on your own:
UPDATED: Doesn’t work on all filenames.
AND UPDATED AGAIN: Dropbox now fixed this issue, rendering my ‘hard work’ pointless. You can get it here.
