I did the following to fix my third-party applications crashing problem.

• Uninstall all my third-party applications via the iPhone
• Delete all my third-party applications form iTunes. I think this is the key step.
  
• Do a restore of the iPhone. I'm not sure if this is necessary. But, I did it.
• Installed a third-party applications from iTunes, not via the iPhone. This worked! Yay!
• Tried to install from the iPhone. This now works. Yay!
  

Over the weekend, my iPhone started crashing all my third-party applications. Try to load Twitterrific. Get the nice blue bird logo. Then crash! Strange. Let's try Remote. Same thing! Wordpress? Same. WTF?!!

So, I deleted all of my installed third-party applications. Re-installed them. Still crash! Crap!

This morning (Monday), I decide to give it one more try. Tried to re-install a third-party application. This time, it won't even install! Stupid!

So, before the comments start coming in. I have the savvy when it comes to tech. Probably more savvy than most of you combined. So, spare me the useless comments about how I don't know what I'm doing.

I am on the latest iPhone firmware 2.0.2. I tried a hard reboot. Now, as I write this, I am waiting on my restore to complete. We will see what happens.

It is ironic that I started having iPhone problems almost immediately after having a SUCs session with my team about the iPhone's design problems. It is almost like it knew I was talking bad about it.

I like to show my username, computer name, and current path in my Terminal's prompt. But, it would also be nice to show it in the title bar.

Just add this line (or replace it if you already have one) in your ~/.bash_profile file.

export PS1='\u@\h:\w\$ \033]2;${USER}@$(hostname):${PWD}\007'

This will make your Terminal window look something like this:

If you want to be really hard core, you can customize your tabs too.

Use this: Show remote host names as tab titles in Terminal.

Basically, you create hard links to the ssh binary with the name of the remote host as the name of the hard link. And, since Terminal displays "ssh" in the tab, you can get Terminal to display the hard link's name instead. Makes sense to me. But, I don't need it.

I hate how slow TextMate is when searching in a project. Well, it turns out that it is not really because TextMate's search is slow. It might be. Most likely, the real problem is that, by default, TextMate is searching through ALL your Rails files. ALL, as in logs, vendor/rails, and so forth. This is what is slowing things down.

I don't take any credit for this. This is a tip from Dr. Nic on a TextMate Google Groups thread. But, I will distill it down for you.

Copy this crazy looking piece of regex (at least . . . I think it is regex):

!.*/(\.[^/]*|vendor/rails|doc|rails_root|CVS|log|data_dump|build|_darcs|pkg |_MTN|\{arch\}|blib|.*~\.nib|.*\.(framework|app|pbproj|pbxproj|xcode(proj)? |bundle))$

Fire up TextMate.

Open up Preferences. ("CMD + ," for the cool people.)

Go to Advanced -> Folder References

In the "Folder Pattern" field, delete what is there (you may want to save it somewhere . . . I just gmailed it to myself), and paste in the crazy regex from above.

Done!

Now, TextMate in project search will be much faster!

One of my life goals is to completely remove the mouse from my daily interfacing with my Mac.

Ok. So, you all know how to minimize an application window.

Command + M

So, how do you bring it back? Command + Tab does not work. That just puts the focus on the minimized application.

Use:

Command + Tab . . . to switch to the application you want. Then, before you let go of the Command key, press the Alt key, then let go of the Command key while keeping the Alt key down.

It is a little weird, and takes a bit to get used to it. But, once you do, it'll be like second nature.

Out.

If you are on Leopard and don't use Fluid, then get a clue. And, start using the awesomeness.

I love me some Gmail. I keep trying Apple Mail. But, I always end up back at Gmail.

So, try this to make your Gmail on Fluid even better.

My Fluid Gmail app looks like this:



I like the dark background, font, and NO ads!

To do this, follow these easy steps.

1. Create Gmail Fluid app.

2. Launch the Gmail Fluid app, not the Fluid app creator app.

3. Go to "Browse Userscript.org" in the menu bar.



4. Search for "gmail dark blue"

5. Click on "Gmail 2 - Dark Blue Google Inspired"

6. Install the script by clicking black "Install this script" button at the top of the left column.

7. Relaunch the Gmail Fluid app! Awesome!