The Blog That Goes Ping

Bookmark Tags, a Firefox extension, is all the awesomeness of tagged bookmark storage a la del.ico.us, without the hassle of your bookmarks being on someone else’s computer instead of your own, and without sharing your hard-earned bookmarks with the undeserving masses.

I just installed it, so I can’t say whether or not it is great in the long run, but it looks promising.

I’ve pretty much given up on using any other browser than Firefox. There are very good alternatives available on the mac, but I can’t live without my extensions.

Tesseract Software:
Flash Video Downloader is an application which allows you to easily batch download and save streaming flash videos from most streaming video sites (e.g. youtube, google video, dailymotion, etc)

That’s one less firefox extension I need now! (Though to be honest DownloadHelper does a lot more than snag flv’s offa youtube… but that’s what I use it for mostly.)

ironcoder » Child’s Play Day:

Child’s Play is a Seattle-based charity started in 2003 by the guys at Penny Arcade that helps make the holidays a little nicer for sick kids staying in children’s hospitals by providing toys and games for them to enjoy. Since its inception over a million dollars in donations of toys, games, books and cash have been collected.

This year a group of independent Mac Developers are teaming up and donating all of the proceeds from sales of their various software titles on Thursday, December 7th to the Child’s Play charity. To participate simply purchase the products as you normally would through the various online stores. Your money will be collected and sent to the charity and you’ll get some great Mac software to enjoy.

Includes some of mph’s favorite software, WebNoteHappy and VoodooPad. (I own the latter and while I don’t do much with it these days it is good software from a great developer.) (Oh, funny — they’ve got the app mph blogged cryptically about just today…)

Looks like a lot of neat stuff. (Guitar Shed especially, not that I’m a guitarist… Oh, and I could pay for Billable if it helped me get around to actually invoicing somebody that I keep forgetting to…)

HollenbackNet - MuttOnMacOs provides a good solution (via this mailing list post) for anyone who wants to use Aquamacs as an editor for a command-line-based application. To wit: don’t use emacsclient directly; create a little script like this:

#!/bin/sh

# script to force Aquamacs to open in front of terminal
open -a Aquamacs\ Emacs
/Applications/Aquamacs\ Emacs.app/Contents/MacOS/bin/emacsclient "$@"
# Now make sure the focus goes back to the terminal when we are done
open -a Terminal

in a file called, say, emacsclienthack.sh, and reference that shell script instead of emacsclient itself. Makes things quite pleasant.

link via digg.  Some people would call this “breaking promises.” I prefer to call it “enhancing Debian compatibility.”
(There are maybe two or three people who read this blog who will actually think that’s funny, but I see no reason to let that stop me.)