This is a patch for removing the default OS X behavior of always starting iTunes when the play button on the keyboard is pressed. This feature can be useful for a lot of users, but it can also be annoying if you are using VLC, Nightingale or other similar programs that support the media keys.

The application will patch the Remote Control Daemon to prevent it from starting iTunes whenever you press the play button on the keyboard or an external remote control. This will only prevent iTunes from starting, all other functions (like play/pause while iTunes is running) will continue to work as before. The original file is backed up in case you would like to restore the original functionality.

This is a patch for removing the default OS X behavior of always starting iTunes when the play button on the keyboard is pressed. This feature can be useful for a lot of users, but it can also be annoying if you are using VLC, Nightingale or other similar programs that support the media keys.

Using Wineskin technology, Porting Kit can install games and apps compiled for Microsoft Windows® in Mac OS X. It's free, it's simple, it's the Porting Kit.

SleepWatcher 2.2 (running with Mac OS X 10.5 to OS X 10.10, source code included) is a command line tool (daemon) for OS X that monitors sleep, wakeup and idleness of a Mac. It can be used to execute a Unix command when the Mac or the display of the Mac goes to sleep mode or wakes up, after a given time without user interaction or when the user resumes activity after a break or when the power supply of a Mac notebook is attached or detached. It also can send the Mac to sleep mode or retrieve the time since last user activity. A little bit knowledge of the Unix command line is required to benefit from this software. For Mac OS X 10.3 and 10.4, use SleepWatcher 2.0.5 (and sources). For Mac OS X 10.1 and 10.2, download SleepWatcher 1.0.1. Some years ago, it was a Pick of the Week at Mac OS X Hints.

The easiest-to-use graphical effects are the shorthand filter functions. You apply them with the CSS filter property. The browser manipulates the appearance of the corresponding element before painting it to the page. Filter functions are supported prefix-free in Firefox since version 35 (stable release in January 2015). They have been supported with the -webkit- prefix in Safari, Chrome, and Blink-based Opera for a few years now.

The redesign of my website finally gave me an opportunity to experiment with SVG filters and color manipulation. The duotone look, which was made sort of trendy again earlier this year by Spotify's new brand identity, is based around manipulating the image's color range by modifying the individual color channels.

But lately (several months) I’ve been thinking can we use SVG icons in Social Menu instead of icon fonts. Leland Fiegel picked up my question in Twitter and rolled his own idea. It’s not bad solution but what if we could do this without Javascript.

...And a crossbrowser sticky footer solution

Interestingly I found that there are two actions taken by the browser: firstly on the percentage itself - for example - Internet Explorer 7-11 will truncate any percentage to 2 decimal places, more modern browsers will round to a large number of decimal places.

Care must be taken when implementing icon fonts to ensure a great experience for all users. What happens when your font doesn’t load? What happens when @font-face isn’t supported in the browser? We’ll show you how to implement bulletproof font icons.

The free web debugging proxy for any browser, system or platform

To get the most out of a TextExpander, you need to remember your abbreviations. That means obeying principles of memory and cognition. To dramatically ease the burden of creating and learning abbreviations, develop conventions for them. Patterns reduce the mathematical “complexity” of learning, and they exploit your brain’s natural, impressive ability to process patterns.

git-remote-dropbox is a transparent bidirectional bridge between Git and Dropbox. It lets you use a Dropbox folder or a shared folder as a Git remote!

This Git remote helper makes Dropbox act like a true Git remote. It maintains all guarantees that are provided by a traditional Git remote while using Dropbox as a backing store. This means that it works correctly even when there are multiple people operating on the repository at once, making it possible to use a Dropbox shared folder as a Git remote for collaboration.

Once the helper is installed, using it is as simple as adding a remote like dropbox://path/to/repo.

Chrome has taught us to idealize features for so long that we've become blind to its many glaring faults.

We’re going to create a background like this in pure CSS:

you may want to try this extension - mru-tabs-switch. I wrote it for myself (since could not find anything similar) and it works pretty well for me. Switch by Control+1.

A proof-of-concept event-based CSS element dimension query with valid CSS selector syntax.

On OS X, Sublime Text has its PATH set by launchctl, not by your shell. Commands like make run by Sublime Text are then unable to find non-system binaries, including those installed by homebrew and MacPorts.

Fix Mac Path is a simple plugin for Sublime Text 2 and 3 which sets Sublime Text's PATH to that reported by your shell. Now, if you add homebrew's /usr/local/bin directory to your PATH in .bash_profile (or whatever other way you set your shell's PATH,) Sublime Text will inherit that PATH.