Here’s a workaround…

This is a more thorough explanation of a previous post. In lieu of an GV app, I figured out a quick and easy way to dial your most frequent contacts using no more than 2 clicks. All we’re doing is adding a bookmark to your iPhone home page that links to a contact’s unique URL in your GV address book. Ready?

1. Load up the mobile GV site (https://www.google.com/voice/m). It works fine in Firefox — it doesn’t redirect to the non-mobile version like other Google sites.

2. Find your desired favorite in your contact list. Let’s use “Mom” for our example. Each contact has its own unique URL – something like https://www.google.com/voice/m/contact/793238491687864. Copy this link to your clipboard.

3. Use your favorite photo editing software to find the perfect headshot of mom. Crop it so it’s EXACTLY a square (I use Picasa).

4. Resize mom’s picture so it’s 57 x 57, and save as a PNG to your desktop. (I used http://www.resize2mail.com/advanced.php)

5. Fire up http://webclipicons.info/ Upload your 57 x 57 PNG, give it the shortcut name “mom” and paste the GV unique contact URL from step 2 into the “shortcut URL” prompt. Put in your email address, and uncheck “make public.” Hit “create shortcut.”

6. Check your iPhone email. You should receive a message with link — click on it. Safari should launch. Bookmark that page to your home screen. Your mom’s smiling face should appear along with your fart and other useless apps.

7. When it’s time to call mom, click on her face. Her contact page in your GV account will load in Safari. You can then call or SMS any number that you have stored for her.

via NyQuil.org.

Want to change your fn key? Use DoubleCommand.

First, go to Firefox’s about:config page… enter “about:config” in the location bar:

Click past the warning, and enter a filter-text of “gesture” to see the various multi-finger gestures and their commands.

Here are the possible values you can put in the Value, and thus which action you will trigger with the gesture.

• cmd_copy
• cmd_cut
• cmd_paste
• cmd_selectAll
• cmd_selectNone
• cmd_copyLink
• cmd_copyImageLocation
• cmd_copyImageContents
• cmd_scrollTop
• cmd_scrollBottom
• cmd_scrollPageUp
• cmd_scrollPageDown
• cmd_scrollLineUp
• cmd_scrollLineDown
• cmd_scrollLeft
• cmd_scrollRight
• cmd_selectCharPrevious
• cmd_selectCharNext
• cmd_wordPrevious
• cmd_wordNext
• cmd_selectWordPrevious
• cmd_selectWordNext
• cmd_beginLine
• cmd_endLine
• cmd_selectBeginLine
• cmd_selectEndLine
• cmd_selectLinePrevious
• cmd_selectLineNext
• cmd_selectPagePrevious
• cmd_selectPageNext
• cmd_selectMoveTop
• cmd_selectMoveBottom

• cmd_paste
• cmd_pasteQuote
• cmd_delete
• cmd_deleteCharBackward
• cmd_deleteCharForward
• cmd_deleteWordBackward
• cmd_deleteWordForward
• cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine
• cmd_deleteToEndOfLine
• cmd_delete
• cmd_deleteCharBackward
• cmd_deleteCharForward
• cmd_deleteWordBackward
• cmd_deleteWordForward
• cmd_deleteToBeginningOfLine
• cmd_deleteToEndOfLine
• cmd_scrollTop
• cmd_scrollBottom
• cmd_moveTop
• cmd_moveBottom
• cmd_selectTop
• cmd_selectBottom
• cmd_lineNext
• cmd_linePrevious
• cmd_selectLineNext
• cmd_selectLinePrevious
• cmd_charPrevious
• cmd_charNext
• cmd_selectCharPrevious
• cmd_selectCharNext
• cmd_beginLine
• cmd_endLine
• cmd_selectBeginLine
• cmd_selectEndLine
• cmd_wordPrevious
• cmd_wordNext
• cmd_selectWordPrevious
• cmd_selectWordNext
• cmd_scrollPageUp
• cmd_scrollPageDown
• cmd_scrollLineUp
• cmd_scrollLineDown
• cmd_movePageUp
• cmd_movePageDown
• cmd_selectPageUp
• cmd_selectPageDown

The list is from Mozilla’s Website.

You can also use these commands, which I figured out from trial and error:

• Browser:Home – takes you to your home page
• Browser:PrevTab
• Browser:NextTab
• Browser:BackOrBackDuplicate – equivalent to back button
• Browser:ForwardOrForwardDuplicate
• Browser:Reload

If you make a mistake, you can right-click on the setting and “reset” to the original configuration value.

You can use the steps from this article by Rafe Needleman. The process includes using Yahoo Pipes to get the RSS feed, translate it, and then create new content output from that. Not horribly complicated, and quite a nice trick to know about.

Note that Yahoo’s Pipes has moved the Babelfish translation into the deprecated list… not sure how long the functionality will continue to be supported.

Scale verticalScale = new Scale(composite, SWT.VERTICAL);
verticalScale.addMouseWheelListener(new MouseWheelListener() {
    public void mouseScrolled(final MouseEvent e) {
        Scale src = (Scale)e.getSource();
        src.setSelection( src.getSelection() - e.count );
    }
});

You can scroll faster by doing (2*e.count) or similar… Note that it is necessary to subtract the MouseEvent.count because in a vertical orientation, a Scale’s max value is at the bottom, not at the top.

You can also do this generically for horizontal and vertical scales with the following MouseWheelListener:

MouseWheelListener wheelListener = new MouseWheelListener() {
	public void mouseScrolled(final MouseEvent e) {
		Scale src = (Scale)e.getSource();
		if( (src.getStyle() & SWT.VERTICAL) != 0 ) {
			src.setSelection( src.getSelection() - e.count );
		} else {
			src.setSelection( src.getSelection() + e.count );
		}
	}
};

If you don’t want to respond to the scroll wheel for horizontal scales, you can simply comment out the else block.

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More tips here.

Here are the programs I’ve reviewed, and the shortcomings they have… I started with this list, and the most reasonable app I found was Ecto.

All of the programs fail on one of the simpler (in my opinion) tasks — rendering your post in edit mode with the blog’s live css stylesheet. They also often failed with some other relatively simple tasks, such as being able to edit Pages and not just posts.

• Ecto – doesn’t show preview with css
• • $18 for this? I guess that’s reasonable, but Live Writer had more features and was free…
• MarsEdit – doesn’t allow you to edit pages, no css preview
• Flock – have to sign up for pictures account (aka Flickr or PhotoBucket) to upload pictures. Also, no css preview, no page editing…
• Qumana – doesn’t even seem to work with OSX 10.5
• iBlog – doesn’t support WordPress (just writes files to file system or ftp)
• JBlogEditor – no active development; focus on html editing
• Journler – not obvious how to use for blogging, focus is on journaling
• MacJournal – looks nice, not focused on blogging, no css view, no page editing, expensive @ $35

“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”