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Genki Takiuchi writes:

I made a SIMBL plugin for Terminal.app which enable us to copy on selection. Here is the plugin named TerminalCopyOnSelect.

TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle.zip

INSTALLATION

1. At first, you should install SIMBL.
2. Download the zipped plugin file I mentioned above and expand it.
3. Copy the extracted file “TerminalCopyOnSelect.bundle” to the plugin directory which is located at ~/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/
4. Terminate all processes of Terminal.app and restart it.

You’re done! Now you can get copied selected text from the terminal when you released mouse button on it.

You are also able to disable this feature by turning off the following menu “Copy On Select”.

Finally, I opened the source of this plugin on the GitHub under the MIT license.

• http://github.com/genki/terminalcopyonselect/tree/master

Enjoy!

For those that are interested in developing desktop applications using the Qt library, you might want to check out the Greenhouse project from Trolltech.

sms-fu lets you send messages to cell phones without using a gateway.  It uses the email-to-sms features that all the US cell carriers offer for free as a convenience.

The following carriers are supported:

Alltel, Ameritech, AT&T, BellSouth Mobility, BlueSkyFrog, Boost Mobile, Cellular South, E-Plus, Fido, kajeet, Metro PCS, Powertel, PSC Wireless, Qwest, Southern Link, Sprint, Suncom, T-Mobile (US/UK/Germany), Telefonica, Virgin Mobile, Verizon Wireless, Vodafone (UK,Italy,Japan, Spain)

To add the functionality to your Rails app install the plugin from the github repository and then add the following line to your application controller:

include SMSFu

And fire off your SMS messages like this:

deliver_sms("5558675309","AT&T","your message here")