Many of you may still remember last year’s Dropquest. It was pretty cool to complete all the puzzles and get 1GB free space. Now here we come Dropquest 2012.

When I’m developing a new WordPress based website, I often put a index.html at my wordpress root directory to display an under construction front-page so I can still visit my_site.com/index.php to work on my pre launching site. But after wordpress upgraded to 2.7 index.php and index.html are no longer be [...]

I always like to keep my Dock and Menubar in my Mac very organised. Its good some applications will give you the option to disable its dock icon or menu bar icon, such as (Alfred, Skitch). However some don’t (Twitter for Mac). Which’s dock icon is useless, waste space and [...]

Just found a new hidden feature in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion. With a write command to set iTunes dock icon display a pop-up notification to show #NowPlaying song and artist name when the music starts. Its a pretty cool feature for those who don’t use GrowlTunes but still needs [...]

For those who wanna test Magento locally on Mac, MAMP seems like the easiest solution I found on Mac OS X Lion. Here is some notes I took during the installation.

Last time I posted an article about how to get Parallels Desktop 7′s activation key for free, unfortunately that solution didn’t last long and some of my readers keep asking for a new way to get this app work on their Mac for free. Here it is how:

So far it looks like iOS 5′s Newsstand is like a regular folder but styled, of course you can’t put a folder into another folder. It’s kind annoying sees it if you don’t really use it much. For those who want to hide iOS 5′s new feature Newsstand in a [...]

不知道什么原因 Apple 在最新的 OSX Lion 中把 DigitalColor Meter 的一些重要功能移出了，其中包括大部分 web developer/designer 都会用到的 hex value 显示. 没有了这个功能的 DigitalColor Meter 对我来说基本就没用了。不过我找到了几个简单的替换方案。 最简单的方案当然是用现成的第三方 Color Meter, 推荐这个 COLORS 简单好用的 color meter, 支持的 color value 格式有 (#rrggbb, rgba, hsl, NSColor) 等，新的版本支持用户自行添加 patterns. 重点是这个 app 免费。可以从开发者的网站下载到: mattpatenaude.com

Update: Since I posted this article too many people used the username and password I provided, now the username is expired. I provided a new way to get this app work on your Mac for free, check it here. Parallels Desktop is always my favorite solution of using Windows OS [...]

我用TextMate作为我的主要文本编辑器已经2年了，一直是我在Mac平台上最喜欢的文本编辑器。早前有听说过老牌编辑器Vi的后代Vim很受到一些geek的推崇，也有尝试过使用MacVim, 但一直没有成功上手。vim有几点特别吸引我: SSH Editor Split Windows 大量的插件支持 编辑效率高(movement commands) 安装MacVim很容易，你可以从Github上下载到MacVim的最新snapshot-61, 发现google code上的macvim下载链接已经被移除了，估计是提供的下载版本过于陈旧的关系。