Category Archives: Utility

ClickToFlash

current fave rave

Finally tried this and quite like it

ClickToFlash: “‘any crash is probably Flash’ ClickToFlash Flash-blocking plug-in for Safari on Mac OS X Download 1.5.5 Latest stable version size: 526 KB Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 Beta download 1.6b9 size: 612 KB Mac OS X 10.4-10.6 get source code or report a bug or donate Features:

Block evil Adobe Flash Flash only when you want it. One-click Flash loading View blocked Flash with just one click. Higher quality YouTube Play videos in QuickTime, not Flash. Website Whitelist Allow Flash on certain websites. Lowered CPU usage Browse the web more quickly. Better battery life Browse the web longer on your laptop. Less fan usage and heat Browse the web quietly and cooly. Automatic Updating Download updates when they’re ready. “

 

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Mac blog editor MarsEdit 3 finally gains rich text editor

Posted with MarsEdit 3.0 – and quit th excellent tool

Mac blog editor MarsEdit 3 finally gains rich text editor: “

Fans of Red Sweater Software‘s blog publishing tool MarsEdit got a surprise Tuesday morning with the release of MarsEdit 3. The most significant update to the software is the addition of a rich text editor, though those who fiddle with the HTML for their blog posts got an updated syntax highlighter. A new media manager rounds out this solid update, one that the company hopes will attract new users and get old ones writing again.

According to Red Sweater founder and developer Daniel Jalkut, some of the features in MarsEdit 3 have been in the works for roughly 2.5 years—basically since MarsEdit 2 was released. Many of the enhancements in the new version respond to long-standing requests from users, Jalkut told Ars, particularly rich text editing. ‘Most of the [blog] Web interfaces and desktop competitors have a rich mode but, until now, MarsEdit has focused exclusively on HTML/markdown source,’ Jalkut said.

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(Via Ars Technica.)

How-to: Bring That Tab Back in Safari

Safari and Glims a teck marriage made in heaven

How-to: Bring That Tab Back in Safari: “

I used to be a Firefox loyalist, but after reading your browser roundup (‘¡Lucha Libre de Web!’ Dec/09), I switched to Safari. I’m loving the speed, but I miss being able to reopen the last closed tab. Safari will reopen my last closed window, but I typically use just one window a day, opening and closing dozens of tabs.

Check out Glims for Safari (free, machangout.com), a handy add-on that lets you undo closing a tab. Yep, you just press Command-Z and your last closed tab reopens. Press Command-Z again, and the tab you closed before that reopens. Glims has other tricks up its sleeve too, like letting Safari run in full-screen mode, letting you change the default search engine, adding thumbnails to your Google search results, and more. After you install Glims, you can control its many behaviors via the new Glims tab added to Safari > Preferences.


Glims adds many tab-wrangling features to Safari, even letting you specify the location of newly opened tabs in Safari’s tab bar.

One caveat: Glims’ developers don’t recommend you use Glims alongside similar Safari plug-in Saft ($15, haoli.dnsalias.com/Saft/), or you could get ‘unexpected results.’ If the letter-writer had Saft, they probably wouldn’t have written us this letter, but the rest of you should proceed with caution if you’re already running Saft.

 

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