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For quite a while now, Apple has dumped the old lookupd daemon and it may have confused some users. “How am I supposed to flush the DNS cache?” or “How can I restart DNS services without a reboot?” Fortunately, Apple now supplies dnscacheutil which takes care of everything and provides a great command-line interface for [...]

Though there exists a CSS solution to do the same thing, this particular SIMBL plugin for Safari adds a configurable and intuitive microformats utility. One thing which may get annoying is the constant popping up of the “warning” window once a lot of websites start embracing microformats on every post or page. read more | digg [...]

One of the great features of the Wordpress blogging platform is the ability to create new posts directly from an email message. In this particular example I’m creating this new article using my iPhone while sitting in a restaurant. Instead of using the web front-end to write the article, I’m using the phone’s built-in mail [...]

Macromates‘ great text editing application, TextMate, contains powerful Ruby-based scripts to allow for simple language scope editing. The HTML bundle, in particular, contains many ready-made HTML snippets which can be inserted into your web development workflow with a simple TAB-trigger or key combination. For example, if I type img then hit the ⇥ (tab) key then TextMate will [...]

There is a new cooler that is in the works to help cool down laptops to prevent throttling while playing high-performance games. A prototype docking station has been developed to air condition your gaming notebook! My MacBook Pro 17″ CPU cores get up to about 190 degrees F during World of Warcraft, even with [...]