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Recursively Unlock Files in OS X

Wednesday, 17 February 2010

Got a folder full of folders full of locked files in OS X?

Open a Terminal window, type cd and drag the folder containing the locked files into the Terminal window, then press Enter
Type chflags -R nouchg * and press Enter

All files and folders there should now be unlocked. More information at this OS X Hints article.

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Friday, 12 February 2010

Jekyll #: Ruby HTML static website generator. And I’m going to try this for a new site soon.

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

LessCSS #: Extension of CSS to help you write less CSS. Also, Less.app:

These two guys, Alexis and Dmitry, invented a time machine. They went forward 10 years, brought back CSS 4.0 and called it LESS. It’s universally awesome and you can read about it here. This app makes working with LESS a snap by turning it into a graphical interface.

Thursday, 28 January 2010

Highlight Named Anchors with jQuery #: Nice bit of code to automatically apply the yellow fade technique to any named anchors on a page.

Saturday, 19 December 2009

Soma Font Friend #: Bookmarklet made for web designers who want to rapidly check how different fonts and font styles look on their screen without editing code and refreshing pages.

Friday, 11 December 2009

Open Here, Leopard #: Useful window icons linking to Applescript utilities to open selected files or folders in Terminal, Textmate and Git.

Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Gmail Offline #: Offline Gmail lets you use the normal Gmail interface to read and write mail, search, and organize, even when there’s no internet connection. Currently supported by Firefox, IE and Chrome.

Friday, 4 December 2009

Glow BBC JS Library #: Open source JavaScript library released by the BBC. They also write about their reasons for deciding to build their own library instead of using something like jQuery.

Thursday, 3 December 2009

Fluid 960 Grid System #: Fluid layout versions of the 960 CSS grid system. Open source.

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Using Form Labels as Text Field Values #: With jQuery.

Monday, 16 November 2009

Humanized Messages for jQuery #: JavaScript-based system for non-model notifications, adapted for jQuery.

Thursday, 12 November 2009

Internet Explorer Collection #: Useful weapon to fight web developer bane, Internet Explorer:

“Internet Explorer Collection contains multiple IE versions, which are standalone so they can be used at the same time. Conditional Comments work exactly the same as in the native versions.”

Saturday, 7 November 2009

Solace #: Open-source multilingual support and knowledge exchange platform written in Python.

Friday, 6 November 2009

PDF Compression With ColorSync #: Use the ColorSync utility to reduce the size of PDF files created in OS X.