chapter 4: “Life affords few pleasures that can equal the striking of vulnerable areas!”

I love that almost every single chapter ends with an exclamation mark. via nys :)

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Hey font nerds: if people need a detailed chart to tell the difference, maybe it doesn’t actually matter that much… Politics aside, of course.

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Just thought I’d shed some light on the issue (because googling it myself turned up less than useful results). I just had an issue where the following messages were being spewed into the output of every osascript (applescript) command:

$ osascript -e 'tell application "finder" to activate'
[000:035] MagicCam 0: Current process: osascript, Flash is loaded: no
[000:035] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 0: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!
[000:002] MagicCam 0: Current process: osascript, Flash is loaded: no
[000:002] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 0: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!
[000:000] MagicCam 1: Current process: osascript, Flash is loaded: no
[000:000] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 1: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!
[000:002] MagicCam 1: Current process: osascript, Flash is loaded: no
[000:002] Error(magiccammac.cc:276): MagicCam 1: MagicCamOpen: Not an allowed process!

This has the potential to break a lot of scripts that use osascript to get information from (or about) running applications.

It turns out this is due to a google quicktime component, which I believe is related to google gears and video chat. To get rid of the error, you can delete “Google Camera Adapter 0.component” and “Google Camera Adapter 1.component” from /Library/Quicktime/. I make no claims that google video chat will work after you do this (it surely won’t), but I never use it anyways, and I’d rather not have it break anything that relies on osascript output.

So I’ve kept working on navim, my jQuery plugin for easily adding vim-style keyboard navigation to web pages. New features include:

• shift+enter to open links in a new window (and the ability to tell if shift is pressed from a custom action callback)
• fixed a bug that interfered with pressing return to submit a form
• using focus(), blur() and tab-key navigation to better effect

I’ve also now implemented navim in my “read later” webapp, pagefeed. It was trivial enough to add “d” as an additional keyboard shortcut to delete the currently active item, which serves as a good example for anyone wanting to add their own custom action keys. The code is simply:

$(window).keypress(function(e) {
	if(e.which == 100) { // 'd'
		$(".navim_active").children("form.del").eq(0).submit();
		return false;
	}
});

by adding facebook and twitter integration. Maybe I’m just getting old and curmudgeonly, but ugh… (it’s okay, I’ve almost successfully replace iTunes with songbird - I just need to replace my iTouch before i can be properly detatched.)

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… and why that’s dangerous.

Moderately worrying stuff.

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