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Firebug in Safari

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Since Safari 3.x, you can now have a firebug-like tool in Safari.  Either open terminal and copy-paste the line below or edit the plist file here ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Safai.plist.

defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Most websites stop there saying “you should now be able to right click and see the ‘Inspect Element’ in any contextual menu”.  Well, I didn’t.  I had to show the developer menu.  Here’s how to show the developer menu straight from Safari help:

open Safari preferences, click Advanced, and select “Show Develop menu in menu bar.”

Once you do that you should be able to see “Inspect Element” in the right click menu.

source: http://macdevelopertips.com/defaults/firebug-like-tools-in-safari.html
keywords:firebug safari

Loading Graphic

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Not a graphic designer, but you need an animated graphic to show something is loading?  Preloaders.net is a free online tool that lets you create your very own loading graphic.

 

http://preloaders.net/

Favicon png or ico?

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I found some great info, where I always do, on stackoverflow.  Basically it all modern browsers request a ico file so its best to have it in case you don’t have a <link> tag.  The best thing was the ico generator url on Dynamic Drive which does transparency.  Just great stuff.  Scroll down to the answer with the most votes, not the accepted one.

http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/

source: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1344122/favicon-png-vs-favicon-ico-why-should-i-use-pngs-instead-of-icos
keywords: favicon png

git move files

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Problem

I added and pushed a bunch of files into my repository, but now I need to put it into a subfolder.

 

Solution

Git is smart and will find the files you moved.  Do the following:

$ mkdir newFolder
$ mv oldFolder newFolder
$ git rm -r oldFolder
$ git add newFolder

source:  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3900805/git-command-to-move-a-folder-inside-another
keywords: git move files to another folder

git couldn’t resolve proxy null

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Problem:

I keep getting this error:

“Couldn’t resolve proxy ‘(null) …”.

I googled so hard!

 

Solution:

Thank you to someone who just plainly answers my question.  You just have to unset http.proxy and possibly https.proxy!

git config –global –unset http.proxy

searched: proxy connect aborted while accessing git
Thanks to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5102361/pull-command-error-failed-connect-to-github-com8080

Convert Mac dfont files to TTF format

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Windows only accepts TTF font files while Mac format’s their font into Dfont format.  This tool by Peter Upfold lets you convert those beautiful Mac fonts into windows format.  Then with your TTF fonts you can upload them to http://www.font2web.com/ or http://onlinefontconverter.com and make web fonts!

http://peter.upfold.org.uk/blog/2008/03/11/dfontsplitter-convert-dfont-files-to-ttf/

What to do about PostScript type files?

Say you thought you had a dfont file, dragged the file into the tool above and got an error saying it’s not the right format.  Well, Looking more into the file you’ll probably find that you have a PostScript Type 1 file.

What I did was go to http://www.adobe.com/type/opentype/Type1-2-OpenType.pdf and find the OpenType format of the font you want to convert.  Then go to somewhere like http://www.fontpalace.com/.  There you can download your font in OTF format and it can be used everywhere.