37 Signals has posted a nifty tip for accessing your Basecamp account directly from the Mac menubar.
Here’s a neat trick: You can use the new Basecamp Mobile UI as a Fluid menu bar app on your computer. That way you can get a quick view of your Basecamp projects straight from your menu bar.
The trick uses Fluid to create a new menu item. Very cool!
I find myself using Dropbox to transfer large files around quite frequently. For people I frequently share with, I have a shared folder. But, when I’m sending one-offs, like podcast demos, it’s helpful to use a simple, public URL.
The only problem is that most people will click the URL and it will load within their web browser as an inline file with no obvious way to save or load into a more appropriate media player. Fortunately, there is a simple trick to make these files download rather than display.
The tip for making dropbox public links download rather than display is to simply add ?dl=1 to the end of your link. When this link is loaded by a web browser, it will download instead of displaying inline.
For example, a url like:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/555555/myaudiofile.mp3
Becomes:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/555555/myaudiofile.mp3?dl=1
Ever since Safari 4 introduced page zoom, rather than just font zoom, I’ve been using it to view webpages on my TV setup. This evening I finally decided to do a bit research to see if if a default zoom level could be set so that I wouldn’t have to hit “Command +” several times with search new Safari window or tab.
It turns out that the solution is quite simple. The zoom level can be set in an external stylesheet.
body {
zoom: 135%;
}
The zoom factor is set with values of more or less than 100%. On my setup, 135% seems just about right.
Save the values above to a new .css file, then go into the Safari preferences and chose Advanced. Select your new stylesheet and all new windows will be zoomed appropriately.
This hint will work on both Mac and Windows Safari. I’ve uploaded my stylesheet for anyone who’d like to use it.
Vimeo is sporting one of the best mobile errors I’ve seen.
Ohmigosh!
Sorry, there was an error showing this video. Why?● No mobile version of this video (yet)
● You don’t have permission to see it
● Neptune not in the 8th HouseAll is not lost! Click here for the non-mobile version of this page.
Here’s a new one (to me)- Twitter’s “Find People” function is not available, so we see the following message:
Twitter is stressing out a bit right now, so this feature is temporarily disabled.
How cute. Who doesn’t get stressed out when a hundred million friends are asking you questions all at the same time?
The Google doodle today is a set of Christmas cards. I say, “Merry Christmas” to you as well.
It’s not every day that a major search engine takes a nosedive into 404-land. I have to say, I’m surprised this isn’t a default IIS error page.
This webpage is not available.
The webpage http://bing.com might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new address.
Oops
This isn’t the page you wanted.
Try this
Refresh the page. If you get this message again please check back later.
While not technically a 404, I’m lumping it into my collection as a clever browser error message.
Well this is embarrassing.
Firefox is having trouble recovering your windows and tabs. This is usually caused by a recently opened web page.
Gotta love a team that has a sense of humor. Thanks to Howie for the screen grab.
Apple has ever so helpfully removed ODBC Administrator from MacOS 10.6’s Utilities folder. The software is now a standalone download from Apple’s website-
http://support.apple.com/downloads/ODBC_Administrator_Tool_for_Mac_OS_X
From Apple: The ODBC Administrator Tool for Mac OS X enables database administration of ODBC-compliant data sources. Features include connection pooling, trace log creation, and ODBC driver management, among other administration features.
As expected, The Chromium Experience on VMWare is really just a web browser at this point.
It did boot in about 10 secs. and I could see how this would be very nice on a NetBook, but for now- it’s just a overhyped browser running in a VM.
The Chrome task manager reveals a few details about what’s going on.
And of course the “Stats for Nerds” shows quite a bit more including Zygote & Sandbox helper.
