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Standalone icons for Prism & Fluid: Gmail, GCal, & Wave

Phil Freo — Tue, 12 May 2009 04:44:39 +0000

Today I tried Mozilla Prism (cross platform) and Fluid (mac only), both of which are used to create single-site browsers (SSBs). I especially wanted to use them for GMail and Google Calendar since those are the two web apps I consistently have open in a tab at all times.

I’m still playing with them both but the first thing I realized was that they would have to do better than use the 16×16 favicons. I was able to extract the official high resolution Google icons from the Google Gears desktop shortcuts for GMail and GCal, so they are attached. These will work for Fluid. For Prism, you’ll have to use the PNGs attached.

Later I found Chris Ivarson’s page with some great icons, but my first couple Google searches didn’t lead me there, and he doesn’t have the standard icons that come from Google.

Edit 1: By the way, I have chosen Fluid because its icon shows me my number of unread messages so I can keep it hidden when I don’t have new mail… very helpful.

Edit 2: By popular request, I just added a Fluid icon for Google Wave also

Attachments: gcal.icns gmail.icns google_wave.icns

On OSX, svn: This client is too old to work with working copy ‘.’; please get a newer Subversion client

Phil Freo — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:08:16 +0000

I got this message when trying to use Subversion on OS X through Terminal.

I checked out my svn version using “svn –version” and it said I was using 1.4.4 – so I decided to update. Here’s how…

Download the latest SVN binaries for OS X and install them just like any other program:
http://svnbinaries.open.collab.net/

Update your system wide path settings by editing /etc/profile through the Terminal:

$ cd /etc/
$ sudo vi profile

At the top of the file, add the following line of text, then save and quit vi.

export PATH=/opt/subversion:$PATH

Then rename the old binary:

$ cd /usr/bin
$ sudo mv svn svn.old
$ cd ~
$ svn --version

And you should see the later version (mine is 1.5.5) and all is good.

Thanks to http://www.imarichardson.com/2008/10/06/osx-svn-woes-client-is-too-old-to-work-with-working-copy/

Switch to MacBook Pro and OS X

Phil Freo — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:24:05 +0000

A couple months ago I bought my first Mac computer with the release of the new MacBook Pros. The new machine is beautiful and the switch to OS X from Windows has been primarily positive overall.

There were a few things from Windows that I greatly missed, but I found solutions which worked:

Make Safari open new windows in new tabs (especially links in Gmail messages), just like Firefox: http://hetima.com/safari/stand-e.html

My Bluetooth Mouse was extremely difficult to use with the OS X mouse acceleration settings. Fortunately after trying several options I found a program that fixed the problem for me: http://www.usboverdrive.com/

Create “new document” context menu option in Finder to create a quick way to make a new Word document or Text document in a specific folder: http://www.growlichat.com/NuFile.php

Combine multiple buddy lists into one in iChat: http://www.ksuther.com/chax/

Quickly lock your computer like Windows Key + L: http://www.gkoya.com/2006/11/23/locktight-for-mac-os-x-intel/