Category Archives: Local Talk

Play Sound (Universal)

I received some requests to update the Play Sound Automator action to work with newer Macs, so I went and posted the source to Github. Upon restoring the source code from a backup, it was quite a surprise finding out … Continue reading

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Lighttpd + Mongrel + Rails + Windows

I recently worked on a project that required me to host a rails application on Windows XP Home, something I had no experience with but took on as our options were limited. We wanted a load-balanced server running a Rails … Continue reading

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Quicksilver + iTunes + Growl

One of the most handy tools for Mac has to be Quicksilver. It does 90% of my application launching, and has a plethora of plugins and other features too, like triggers. Triggers work like global hotkeys. For example, I can … Continue reading

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