Copying bundles from one machine to another is cumbersome and easily forgotten.

I always find myself adding one command to a custom bundle at the office and then forgetting to add it to one of my machines at the house.

Before we begin you will need a Dropbox account. If you don’t already have one you can get a free one here

Once you have Dropbox running you can run these 3 steps in Terminal.app

It is highly recommend to run a backup of your bundles before attempting the steps below.

Step 1. Move to your the folder where the Textmate bundles are located:

$ cd ~/Library/Application\ Support/TextMate/

Step 2. Move the Bundles folder to your Dropbox folder:

$ mv Bundles ~/Dropbox/Bundles

Step 3. Create a symlink in the DropBox folder to the “Application Support/TextMate/” directory:

$ ln -s ~/Dropbox/Bundles/ Bundles

Repeat steps 1,2,3 on any machines that you need to sync up.

Recently I started using Textmate for more things then just coding websites since thats bascially the tip of the iceburg then it comes to the most powerful editor on the mac.

If you interested in trying something new with Textmate here are basic instructions to use texmate to compose messages with OSX mail.

1. Make sure you have installed the “Edit in Textmate” Bundle. This is found in “Bundles>Textmate>Install Edit in Textmate bundle.
2. Once the bundle has been installed you will be able to edit your email message in text by hitting the following short cut keys “Control + Command +E” or optionally going to the edit menu in Mail and the very last option will be “Edit in Textmate”.
3. Once you the command has been keyed a blank Textmate text file will be opened.
4. Type your email message and then save. If your done editing the email you can close the Textmate window and you will see your message in message window of the Mail app.

Other Mail features you can with Mail

• Increase quote level “> or shift+.”

Here is a download to the HTML 5 Bundle I have started for Textmate. This is my first attempt at creating a bundle from scratch please provide feedback and requests and I will add them.

Download Here

Update 7/19/2009

Updated 3/21/2010
Added localStorage Snippets

The bundle has also been uploaded to Github.

View Repository

After messing around with my Hackintosh today I needed to remove some of my kext files in /System/Library/Extentions (S/L/E). I wasn’t in the mood to find an early build of a hackers app I just wanted Terinal su/root access.

Here is an easy method to activate root access in Terminal for Mac OS X 10.5 or later.

1. From the Finder’s Go menu, choose Utilities.
2. Open Directory Utility.
3. Click the lock in the Directory Utility window.
4. Enter an administrator account name and password, then click OK.
5. Choose Enable Root User from the Edit menu.
6. Enter the root password you wish to use in both the Password and Verify fields, then click OK.

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As an on again off again freelancer I’ve encountered a many different ways to run through QA (Quality Assurance).  Each team has is own process… Excel docs getting emailed around left and right or a better method but not best, Google docs. None of these tools are ideally designed for the QA process. Since my last QA frustration, I decided to look around and see if there was a easy tool that I could use with a team working from different locations via extranet type login etc.

MantisBT is a free popular web-based bugtracking system (feature list). It is written in the PHP scripting language and works with MySQL, MS SQL, and PostgreSQL databases and a webserver.

Many agencies seem to be using Mantis and its been around for a while as well as a simple set up. I was instanly impressed with how easy it was to use. You can easily setup a new project and assign team members to bugs. Color code key helps clearly display what is going on for each bug aswell many other helpful details. If you have been trying to imrpove your QA and haven’t tried Mantis Bug Tracker I highly recommend checking it out.

The ever growing world of Twitter applications has been taking off almost as fast as Twitter itself has. Here is a list of some popular tools users have been using to their tweeting delight… Try a few.

• Twitpic lets you share photos on Twitter.
• Tweetdeck a personal browser for staying in touch with what’s happening now, connecting you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more.
• TwitterCounter tracks millions of Twitter users and generates daily updated lists of who is social, active and popular.
• Twitterholic.com scan the Twitter public timeline for new twits to tweet.
• Twhirl is a social software desktop client, based on the Adobe AIR platform.
• Twitturly track and rank what URLs people are talking about on Twitter.
• Twittervision A real-time geographic visualization of posts to.
• Twitterfall is a way of viewing the latest ‘tweets’ of upcoming trends and custom searches on the micro-blogging site Twitter. Updates fall from the top of the page in near-realtime.
• Twitbin is a firefox extension that allows you to keep up with all of your Twitter conversations right from your browser sidebar. Send messages, receive messages, share links, and more from Twitbin, the best twitter addon for firefox out there.
• Tweetr Nicely made Air App with convenient features.

This guy really knows what the deal is…. love the quote “Strathmore stock. 60lb. Holds a crease”. Special thanks to k8iedid for shooting that one my way.

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  Textmate The number one text editor for the mac.
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  Adium Instant messenger application that allows most service type to be logged in at sametime. Example: AIM, LIVE, MS, Yahoo
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  Vidalia Great Tor proxy tool, also required for me with my current landlord internet filter.
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  Transmit Clean and easy FTP tool.
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  iRachet Great invoicing tool I’ve been using for a couple months. Only little complaint is that it seems to be slight resource hog.
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  Newsfire Best looking RSS reader on osx.
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  Yojimbo Bookmarking and so much more. Handling everything my brain forgets.
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  Jumpcut Lightweight and very discrete clipboard utility.
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  Things Todo list app that syncs via wifi to iphone.
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  ReceiptWalletLike many I hate paper, I hate sorting it, I hate pulling up old crinkled receipts. This tool keeps all receipts at your finger tips and makes doing taxes just a little easier.