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Part 2 of the wonderful documentary series “Steal this Film” is out. You can
download it via bittorrent here:
http://www.stealthisfilm.com/Part2/

I’ve finally found a good solution for making the home/end keys work as expected in Terminal.app on Leopard.

1. Go to http://www.starryhope.com/tech/apple/2006/keyfixer/, download and install it.
2. Open up Terminal.app and go to Preferences (Cmd+,)
3. Find the Keyboard tab for your settings
4. Find the entry for home, click on edit, change “Action” to “send string to shell” and type in ctrl+a (it should expand it to \001)
5. Repeat this for the ‘end’ key, and type in ctrl+e

Restart Terminal.app and voila!

I’ve been working off and on for a while on a nice web front-end for dsage and here are some screenshots to show what I’ve got so far:

Jobs:

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For those who swear by Markdown, I’d like to introduce you to a new piece of software called txt2tags. The syntax for txt2tags is very similar to Markdown, but has a ton more features, including tables support. Also, it supports many more output targets, including:

• HTML
• XHTML
• LaTeX (my favorite)
• Man page
• MoinMoin
• etc…

There is a fantastic TextMate bundle for it as well.

You can try out an online demo here.