Windows in the OS X Finder–the equivalent, more or less, of Windows Explorer–normally display the title of the current folder. You can fire up a Terminal and type the following two lines to change this default: defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool YES killall Finder If you change your mind later, you can change it back [...]
OS X Hack: Tell the Finder to Display Paths as Window Titles
Posted by wheat on November 18, 2010
http://wheatblog.com/2010/11/os-x-hack-tell-the-finder-to-display-paths-as-window-titles/
Testing Wordbooker plugin for WordPress
I’m testing out Wordbooker, a plugin for WordPress that helps integrate WordPress with Facebook. If you’re reading this on Facebook, I’m guessing it worked. One of the tricks it is supposed to do involves syncing comments. So feel free to help me test that by commenting on this post. Cheers.
Posted by wheat on November 5, 2010
http://wheatblog.com/2010/11/testing-wordbooker-plugin-for-wordpress/
Deploying Access 2007 Databases with SharePoint 2007
SharePoint 2007 provides, though Excel Services, some really nice ways to share workbooks, but it doesn’t offer the same sorts of integration for Access databases. Evidently, this gets fixed in SharePoint 2010, through i’s new Access Services feature. But I’m stuck with SharePoint 2007 for the time being. A lot of the databases I create [...]
Posted by wheat on November 4, 2010
http://wheatblog.com/2010/11/deploying-access-2007-databases-with-sharepoint-2007/
The End of the Infinite
[There will be some spoilers here, but I will save them for the end and warn you before they start.] I finally made it to the end of David Foster Wallace’s mammoth novel, Infinite Jest. I finished it on September 10th, 2010. You regulars will perhaps remember that I started reading this novel as a [...]
Posted by wheat on October 6, 2010
http://wheatblog.com/2010/10/the-end-of-the-infinite/
Using an Apple Keyboard with WinXP
When I bought my iMac, I purchased the big, wired keyboard and wired mouse, which I later upgraded to the smaller, Bluetooth variety (Apple Wireless Keyboard). I finally decided to get the wired ones out of my closet and see if they’d work with my Dell WinXP box at work, whose keyboard has all the tactile response [...]
Posted by wheat on October 1, 2010
http://wheatblog.com/2010/10/using-an-apple-keyboard-with-winxp/