Since moving to Safari for most of my web browsing needs I’ve been using a replacement for the brilliant AdBlock Plus called PithHelmet.
PithHelmets default setup is fairly functional although some customisation is required to get it working with various websites that I use daily. There is however one default setting that annoys the hell out of me as it doesn’t seem to remember the last state.
Enabling plug-ins for every site is something I really want to maintain on by default. I only block plug-ins based on the website I’m visiting and if they annoy me or are in some way dangerous, although that’s very few as I use OpenDNS to keep the nasty stuff out!
If I toggle the Enable plug-ins option to on, PithHelmet remembers this until I close Safari and then it defaults back to being off. This can be a little annoying when reopening Safari after a reboot or when I’ve quit the application accidently.
Asides from that annoyance, PithHelmet is definitely worth getting if you use Safari.
I can’t work out why Apple’s applications don’t utilise Spotlights ability when it comes to searching for items within them. Take this as an example. If I search for Saft inside Mail, so that I can find my registration details, it returns nothing.
If I then do exactly the same search via Spotlight, it shows four results under the email messages.
I’m just wondering why one of Apples own applications would have such a discrepancy when it comes to searching?
I’ve found a massive flaw with the iPhone. It doesn’t sync email certificates held in the Mac OS X keychain to the iPhone.
Whilst this isn’t initially a problem if you just use it to sign emails as being from you, it poses a problem if someone else also uses an email certificate enabling you to encrypt emails.
The email ends up encrypted and the iPhone has no way to decrypt it because it doesn’t possess any of the certificates that Mail does. I’ve filed an enhancement request with Apple, let’s hope someone picks up on it.
One missing feature from Adium that’s been bugging me for ages is a way for the file transfer window to auto close.
There doesn’t seem to be any such future for this feature, so I thought I’d knock up a little AppleScript to do the work for me.
tell application "Adium"
tell window "File Transfers"
set visible to false
end tell
end tell
Simply drop that into the AppleScript editor of your choice and save it somewhere on your mac. Follow the next instructions.
- Open Adium Preferences and click on the Events icon.
- Find File transfer completed successfully, select it and then click Edit in the bottom right corner.
- Under the action drop down box choose Run an AppleScript.
- Browse to the AppleScript you’ve just saved.
- Apply those settings and you’re done!
You could also add the same AppleScript to the other file transfer events, but that’s up to you. I’m trying to work out a way for the AppleScript to clear the download list, but I’m not getting anywhere at the moment!
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