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- TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac
It’s been covered here on TAB before, but not enough praise can be given to my text editor of choice, TextMate, which garners much appeal for its built-in extensibility thanks to Ruby. With that flexibility, though, comes a small feeling of overwhelming panic, like being five miles out in the ocean with nothing but a pair of water wings. Trying to wade through all its features without any guidance beyond developer Allan Odgaard’s in-program documentation is meshuga.
Fortunately for all of us, James Edward Gray II’s book TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac does a bang-up job of making even the most advanced TextMate functions accessible. Gray begins with simple topics like navigating the editing window, creating projects, and easy keystrokes — copy, paste, select all, etc. He wisely instructs his readers early in the book to learn keystrokes for as many commands as possible, but, at the same time, not to fill their memory with the lesser used ones at the expense of the others. Depending on the bundles one has active, TextMate could have as many as several hundred keystroke sequences available at any given time.
Before long, Gray moves into automation: what TextMate does best. Beginning with an introduction to some of the built-in bundles and how to use them, he soon shows us how to define snippets: blocks of text or programming code or bloggery that are automatically inserted whenever a given trigger is activated, like a built-in version of TextExpander, only more powerful.
From there, Gray does an excellent job of leading into macros, bundle editing, the built-in support tools, calling UNIX commands and Ruby scripts, and theme customization. TextMate doesn’t have a bundle for groff? Gray will show you how to build one.
While TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac doesn’t cover every aspect of TextMate, for less than 200 pages it is extremely efficient in providing readers with everything they need to know to accomplish approximately 99 percent of the tasks that TextMate can perform. The other one percent? You’ll just have to ask around on the TextMate community forum.
The old vi versus emacs text editor holy wars are still alive on the Mac in the form of BBEdit versus TextMate, and while TextMate has been called “emacs meets the Mac,” I was a staunch vim user until I met TextMate. I still keep vim around, but it’s collecting a lot of dust — especially since I read Gray’s excellent book that helped me develop all the snippets and keystroke preferences I needed in TextMate.
TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac retails for $29.95 USD / $41.95 CDN / £20.99 GBP / €29,00 EUR. books, reviews, text editors, TextMate
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/07/book-review-textmate-power-editing-for-the-mac/#comments - Current iPhone Customers get $100 Back
A letter from Steve Jobs on Apple’s site not only apologizes to early iPhone adopters, it promises them $100 in credit to the Apple Store in an attempt to make amends. This will hopefully calm the fires that are burning among many of the Apple faithful that feel “cheated” by yesterday’s $200 price drop.
Wow. I guess the squeaky wheel really does get the grease.
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/06/current-iphone-customers-get-100-back/#comments - Snag A 4GB iPhone for $299
In case the 8GB iPhone is still just outta reach (despite yesterday’s price drop to $399) and you think you can get by on a measly 4GB of memory, you can grab a 4GB iPhone online at the Apple Store for $299.
I have to say that I’m actually considering it, as I have all the iPods I need and my 2 year old Razr is starting to really act up.
As with any of the deals at the Apple Store, this is only good “while supplies last”.
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/06/snag-a-4gb-iphone-for-299/#comments - Apple drops iPhone prices. Users get ticked.
If you haven’t heard already, at yesterdays event Steve Jobs announced that on top of dropping the 4GB iPhone, the price of the 8GB iPhone would be dropped by $200 to $399 (from $599…for the mathematically challenged).
The iPhone was released barely 2 months ago and thus a few users (especially those who dropped $600 on a phone) are a bit ticked.
A few points have been made in regards to negativity towards the price drop.
I think Gruber summed it up best:
…for those of you who've already bought one and are pissed about the price cut, if you didn't think the iPhone was worth $599, you shouldn't have bought it. That's how supply and demand works.
I certainly understand both sides here. I know if I had purchased an iPhone and paid the equivalent of a new computer, I’d be ticked too. Being upset over spending $200 more than what you’d have to pay now is reason to be upset. But you’ve got to take things in to focus here.
Jobs is being completely honest when he says “that’s what happens in technology.” In a technology age dominated by short product life spans and competitive markets, Apple is doing what they have to to stay competitive in a volatile market like the mobile phone industry.
As Gruber said, if you didn’t think the iPhone was worth $599, you shouldn’t have paid that much for it. It’s not about customer loyalty or respect. It’s not about you some how thinking your iPhone was any type of “investment” that wouldn’t drop like a rock in value. It’s about business and supply and demand. Period.
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http://theappleblog.com/2007/09/06/apple-drops-iphone-prices-users-get-ticked/#comments - Download iTunes 7.4 Now
iTunes 7.4 is now available for download on Apple’s site or in Software Update.
iTunes 7.4 brings with it mainly capabilities for the new iPods that Apple announced yesterday.
From Software Update:
With iTunes 7.4, sync your favorite music and more with the new iPod nano (third generation), iPod classic, and iPod touch, plus create custom ringtones exclusively for iPhone with many of your favorite songs purchased from the iTunes Store. You can now also play purchased videos with closed captioning (when available), easily rate your favorite albums from one to five stars, and watch videos at a larger size inside the iTunes window.
Let us know if you have any issues after your installation.
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