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Chromium Mac Build Bot Updater Script

When I read on MacRumors that the Chromium builds for the Mac were available and were actually launching the “stupid” geek in me jumped at the opportunity to try the unfinished, unpolished software. By “stupid” I refer to the side of near any geek who sees the OOO SHINY and is fully prepared to deal […]

WebKit Nightly Update Script

This is a repost of a much older post that was lost when I transitioned from Moveable Type 3 to 4. I personally like using WebKit nightlies as my main browser as it’s more or less Safari with a better, faster, and much more current rendering engine underneath it. That and the gold logo looks […]

Opening/Copying Locked DVDs

At work we sometimes receive DVDs that we need footage off of that are locked. They will play back fine in DVD Player but we don’t want it for playback. The resulting DVD images are always titled SONATA_VOLUME and are created by a stand alone Sony DVD Recorder. In order to copy the VIDEO_TS file […]

Tab Count to Growl for Safari

The following AppleScript snippet figures out how many tabs are open in the frontmost window and spits it out to Growl. Helps when I don’t feel like counting how many tabs I’ve opened in WebKit/Safari. Note: To get this to work with Safari change WebKit to Safari. tell application "WebKit" activate set numtabs to index […]

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chealion.ca is the haunting grounds of Micheal Jones, IT Manager at a media company in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. If you'd like to know more I'd recommend visiting the complete About page.

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