Monthly Archive for August, 2007

TextMate + iTerm = Love for everyone

TextMate has been my text editor of choice for a while. Even if its interface is as simple as it can be (it does not even have a toolbar!) it is very powerful behind the scene, in part due to numerous “bundles”. One of them brings love, communication and share between TextMate and iTerm, a terminal application with tabs, bookmarks and many other nifty features. The iTerm bundle is quite sparse in itself but it has a little gem in it, called Paste Selection. The command grabs the text currently selected in TextMate, sends it -through an AppleScript- to the last used iTerm window/tab and paste it at the prompt there.

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Gnumeric wrapper for Mac OS X

Excel has been (and still is) one of the killer applications from Microsoft, which allowed the company to conquer its present market share. And it is a “killer” application because it kills concurrence: since it has been so popular for such a long time, there are not many alternative spreadsheet applications to choose from. Add to that the requirement to run something free on a Mac and you are basically restricted to OpenOffice and Gnumeric.

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