Yojinbo

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!

Obama says he’s going to introduce a cabinet-level CTO who will make decisions on how the U.S. uses technology in government, building out broadband in rural areas, and creating hi-tech jobs.  Who will that person be?  Will that person come from a commercial or academic background?

According to this article in Business Week the shortlist includes the following people.

Vint Cerf

He works for Google.  People call him the father of the Internet.  He has a cool beard.

Ed Felton

From Princeton University, apparently a smart guy.  In 2006 he hacked a Diebold voting machine to prove it could be done.

Jeff Bezos

He started Amazon. He knows technology and he knows business.

Steve Balmer

He is responsible for Windows Vista.  And he’s a Dick.

Obama has so far shown that he’s an intelligent person with sound judgement.  Therefore I think that it’s safe to say that Steve Balmer’s job is safe at Microsoft.  I’d like to see Vint Cerf in the Whitehouse.  I like that beard.

Gotta keep an eye on Nitrogen, which promises a Rails-lke framework for the highly concurrent Erlang programming laguage.

An event-driven web framework for Erlang

Hmm.

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")

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We’ve all seen countless implementations of date pickers with pretty little calendars, but this is the first time picker I’ve ever seen. And it’s pretty damn cool.

Start time (click the clock):

That is friggin sweet! Check it out over at haineault.com