Super bizarre and obliquely inspiring collection of three volumes of the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia.

"Sometimes just being on an aeroplane 35,000 feet in the air is a sanctuary, because no one can get to you."

In different flavours of Linux / Unix, there are three useful commands: uniq,sort and awk. More (…)

To open a Mac Finder window in the current directory of a Mac Terminal window. To do it, just issue this Mac open command:

open .

In the Mac OS X Terminal via open -a ApplicationName FileName.

for example: open -a Textwrangler textfile.txt

Textwrangler makes it even easier, with edit FileName.

Textwrangler can also show the differences between two files with the command twdiff FILE1 FILE2.

This version added a few ‘previously pro-only’ features such as trimming and exporting, and also ‘brand new’ pro features like screencasting and sharing.

The first thing to do is to activate “Screen Recording” mode by going to “File –> New Screen Recording” menu or by using Command + Control + N shortcut keys combination. 

Then a small screen recording window will appear with the “Record” button in the middle. By clicking the small arrow button at the bottom right corner of the window, you can access a few settings that you can meddle with: the microphone to use, the quality of the movie and the location to save the screen recording.

One of Quicksilver’s many handy features is the Clipboard module. When activated, it can keep track of the items that you have cut and copied, and let you see what is currently on the clipboard- what will appear when you paste. It can store rich formatted text and images just like the regular clipboard.

via Macinstruct