Move implementations

It is funny how many implementations of move don't support moving a file across different partitions.  First, I wanted to use some of the AppleScripts described in the comments of this hint on macosxhints.  But since I use FileVault, my home directory is a disk image, and AppleScript's move will doesn't return an error, but doesn't do anything.

And, I just discovered, that php's rename has the same problem.  It looks like versions of php prior to 4.3.3 do not work across different partitions. This is also a problem for move_uploaded_file, but they don't call it out in their documentation.

It seems really strange that these problems are just being fixed now.

Purchasing software online

I have finally reinstalled all of the software on my laptop after my hard drive crash.  Luckily, I had a backup of all of my data files, and all I had to do was reinstall my software from CD.  TurboTax was the one CD that I couldn't find, which can at a really bad time.

On Saturday, I went to the Apple Store and bought TurboTax again.  Since we signed for the TurboTax Automatic Renewal plan, Intuit knows that we have a valid license to Turbo Tax.  It would be great if software developers allowed customers to download software that you have already purchased.

Entering special characters in Mac OS X

The ecto blog has a good post describing a way to enter special characters into the ecto blogging client. These instructions should also work well in most Mac OS X applications.

Google Maps on TV

I just found this cool (but pretty pointless) application that will display maps from Google Maps on your TiVo.  It allows you to enter a zip code, zoom in and out, scroll, and switch to the Satellite view.

It would be cool if they hooked up Google Sightseeing to this.

[via Google Weblog]

PoddumFeeder

I just found this new Podcast client, and it works pretty well.

1. PoddumFeeder allows you to import/export your feed list as OPML


2. Converts the mp3s to bookmarkable AAC files


3. Automoatically import the files into iTunes

The thing that is really interesting to me is that this application is implemented in AppleScript.

Themes in PostNuke 0.750

A while ago, I upgraded to PostNuke 0.750 and my theme stopped working.  It looks like PostNuke 0.75 uses the Xanthia Theme Engine for themes.  The theme that I modified was using the old theme engine.  I had to remodify the theme that is included with the release.

Rendezvous in Linux

This page has a good description on advertising Rendezvous service on linux.  I am using this to advertise my afp shares, web server, Webmin server, and TiVo Music server.