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Nightblogging

If you’re using a Mac, and are prone to unhealthy sleeping patterns involving late night computing (like myself), then save your eyes by hitting command-control-option-8 on your keyboard. It’ll invert the screen.

You can also access this from System Preferences –> Universal Access.

Bonus: 25 super ninja night-vision kudos points.

Quicksilver tip

Quicksilver has many uses. It’s the all-powerful grammatical navigation and manipulation utility for Mac OS X.

A nice trick is to allow you to run shell commands from within the QS window. You can do this in text mode (hit ‘ and type your commands, then select “Run A Text Command in Terminal”).

But you can also get access to any of your command-line utilities in a different way - by adding their directories to the QS catalogue.

Normally you can’t add ‘invisible’ folders to your custom catalogue (through the + icon in the Custom screen of the Catalogue), but QS lets you drag invisible folders into the Catalogue window directly.

So, if you want a quick vim window, add /usr/bin to your Catalogue, and you’ll be able to enter QS, hit ‘vi’, tab and select ‘Run in Terminal’. Note that ‘Run as Shell Script’ will fail in most cases unless it’s a command that exits cleanly.

MemoryMiner - the ultimate photo organiser?

This week saw GroupSmarts release an interesting update to their MemoryMiner social photo organiser application. MemoryMiner is a social photo organiser for Mac OS X, allowing users to tag imported photos by who appears in them (the ability to draw a marquee around a subject in a photo is somewhat similar to Facebook’s photo tagging service). Memory Miner also incorporates time-based selection, tagging and geotagging.

If you’d like to see a visual demo, check out MacBreak’s video interview with GroupSmarts [QuickTime movie, 93.6MB]. Warning: Merlin Mann present. I don’t mind him but I know that many do…

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Location of first Apple store in Scotland: 147 Buchanan Street

I’m generally guilty of saying ‘I told you so’ too much - but this time, I bloody well did tell you so.

Location of first Apple store in Scotland:

Filed under: Retail, Apple

Survivingcinemas.org.uk has uncovered the future location of Apple’s first store in Scotland. 147 Buchanan Street, Glasgow will house Scotland’s Apple Store as well as a glass spiral staircase and a Genius/iPod bar. This former theater will have an estimated £1,1,68,000 pumped into it to covert it into a stainless steel encased Apple Store (signage will be approved separately). Interestingly, it would seem that this store will not have a theater which is becoming a trend in new Apple Stores.

[via MacNN]

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(Via The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)).

Rammstein and the Chipmunks

Breaking news: animated chipmunks join German industrial rock band!

Exhibit A.

If you listen to Last.fm radio on a Mac with its audio output sample rate set to 96Khz, you will too find that the godforsaken hellish sound of The Chipmunks has infiltrated your machine.