Dan Gillmor wasn't *really* using OS X 10.1?

Dan Gillmor said: "And, in Finder windows, clicking a letter key now gets you to the file or directory starting with that letter."

Now that Jaguar is out, it probably doesn't matter to most people, but this worked just fine in OS X 10.1 also... I just tried it.

This is probably too nitpicky, but I'm curious if it's an indication of whether or not the writer actually explored OS X 10.1 before, or just didn't notice this feature until now, when he starts using Jaguar.
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Code Search, coming soon

So last month, I had an idea about a search engine for Cocoa open-source code. I posted it on the macosx-dev mailing list, and got a few interested replies, mainly along the lines of "if you build it, they will come." So, I've built it, but right now it's not available to the general public (I'm working to add more searchable code and make the templates look nicer.)

I have one main problem, however: code viewed as straight text in a browser is missing so much of the potential of HTML. If only doxygen worked for Obj-C...

Anyway, I'll probably announce it sometime after I upgrade that machine to Jaguar (it was running the WWDC version of Jaguar, and I'm not ready to rely on prerelease OS software for a server) Hopefully it turns into something people like enough to make it worth the (relatively small) effort. I set it up while waiting for dynaprof (really dyninst) to load executables.

Oh, just to make this post extra long, I used ht://dig for the search engine, and it compiles and runs nicely on OS X. Plays nice with Apache too. (Big surprise)

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Discreet Radio Blog not great for editing in Radio...?

I have had some trouble with switching to Bryan Bell's Discreet Radio Blog (green). I love how it looks, but when editing from Radio's desktop website homepage [127.0.0.1:5335], it overlaps things on small (read usable) window sizes. I can't remember if Radio did this with other themes, but I do know it's a pain to switch themes, and I'd rather fix this. But I have no idea how. I searched the Radio discussion boards to no avail. Argh. Here's what it looks like in OmniWeb 4.1, which at least covers the underlying text. Mac IE 5 just overlaps text, making it unreadable.

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Ken Bereskin starts a series on Jaguar features

Ken Bereskin from Apple starts what should be a pretty revealing series of weblog entries on Jaguar: (I think the live updates of currency conversion are pretty cool)

If you've been wondering, I've got the database with the 150+ features of Jaguar and will start posting a couple of them every day.

To kick things off....

Jaguar sports a totally new Calculator. After 18 years, it probably was time to offer something more than the basic bare bones 4 function calc. Anyways, there are two killer features of the new calculator. First, the paper tape is live - make a mistake in a previous calculation? Just go back and edit it and everything will be recalculated! The best feature though is the currency conversion that uses a web-service so you can be sure that your conversions are using up-to-date information. Another transparent use of the net in Jaguar.

[Ken Bereskin's Radio Weblog]
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Passwords on OS X, Solaris

I have a few pretty long passwords, and as discovered recently by Aaron Swartz, OS X has an 8-character limit on passwords. You can type more, but it won't care. Solaris did this too, and the first time I figured it out, I was very surprised. Essentially, I typed my password (let's say, "b4dp4ssword" - and then I accidentally typed a bunch more crap: "b4dp4sswordfoooooo", and Solaris let me in. Surprising, but not a huge deal. If you really care about password security, try something like this, also pointed to by Aaron Swartz. Or set up One-Time Passwords with pretty keychains: (Links to a Flash tour)
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