Archive 9. August 2011

mutle/vim.safariextension - GitHub. Another VI keyboard control for Safari, which I actually quite like - but unfortunately it doesn't have link navigation, so you apparently still have to use the mouse. Too bad, because that's actually something like the killer feature - on the other hand, both this one and vimlike are open source, maybe I should just sit down and combine the two (or build a patch for one of the two that adds the missing features).

vimlike-onsafari - Safari keybind changes like VIM. - Google Project Hosting. Hmm, thinly documented, but the essentials seem to work. So the navigation keys and following links. And unlike previous tests, it no longer gets confused when styling the link hints.

Update on UIKit lighthouse platform. Hmm, I didn't notice that - QT also has support for UIKit, the iOS framework, in 4.8. So you can build iOS apps based on QT. This raises the question of how this works with PyQt or PySide - Apple doesn't like interpreted code only when it is loaded afterwards. The app itself can be written with it, though.

Time Machine - Frequently Asked Questions 30. What are Local Snapshots?. Not a bad idea what Apple came up with. The first rumors about local snapshots sounded rather strange, but what has become of it - automatic snapshots for on the go, when you don't have your backup drive plugged in, are quite practical. Not for real recovery in the sense of a disk crash, but for the usual "oops, I'm stupid, I didn't want to delete that yet" situations. However, I would like it if there were a GUI in Time Machine for this, where you can turn local snapshots on and off - yes, I know, you can do it from the command line, but I'm not an Apple user for nothing, I want pretty graphical buttons to press!