Spark - keyboard shortcuts on mac

Spark V 3.0 allows you to make keyboard shortcuts for loads of different things. Works v well with F1->F5 mapped to iTunes keys.

iTunes album cover retrieval Artwork Gopher

Downloaded Artwork Gopher from apple downloads - really good at finding album covers. Just ran it from the disc image so far and it installs a script into the script menu. But I think it prob needs dragging to the utilities folder.

Also, BPM identification by http://www.mixmeister.com/ might be worth checking out.

OS X Password Assistant

Create random passwords using Keychain's built in dialog box, but stand alone.

http://www.codepoetry.net/products/passwordassistant

Ruby in Netbeans

Used the Tools/Plugins to add Ruby plugin. Takes a while to install.

Git in Netbeans

Used nbgit plugin from Netbeans (0.3). Plugin installed okay. 

Put ProjectLocker seems to allow Git access only via a public key - which means that (since nbgit doesn't support that) I can't use it in Netbeans!

So used git-osx-installer from Google Code. Had to reopen the terminal window but then Git worked. Took my id_rsa.pub key from ~/.ssh/ and put it into ProjectLocker - used michaelfielding@Adventure.local as the identifier because that's what was at the end of the key file.

Lost Netbeans plugins

After I installed Ruby and PHP plugins into Netbeans (I think that was the trigger), the Plugins dialog box refused to populate. I opened the Netbeans application package and deleted the (empty) PHP and Ruby directories under Resources/Netbeans - but when I restarted, no difference.

Reinstalled Netbeans 6.8 and all the plugins had reappeared.

Another, better display mirroring solution

http://www.fabiancanas.com/Projects/MirrorDisplays/

Put that in Utilities, use Spotlight to find it if the display gets garbled, you're away.