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Eclipse with Aptana plugin and SFTP support, a free website editor

A friend wanted a good, free web development IDE for Mac. Personally, I use Coda and love it, but it’s not free.
I found this resource as a starting point.
I quickly found that although KompoZer and Nvu were good for her because they were WYSIWYG editors, they both don’t support SFTP, which was required in this [...]

Get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox

How to get rid of that annoying dashed line around objects when clicking in Firefox:
In the url Location Bar, type ‘about:config’.
Then in the filter box, type ‘browser.display.focus_ring_width’.
Set its value from 1 to 0.

Tolstrup.us

Shameless plug for the writings of my grandfather at http://tolstrup.us. You’ll find stories and pictures of him growing up in the midwest in the early part of the 20th century.

Mac OS X: Mounting FAT32 external hard drive via Terminal command line

I have a 150GB USB external hard drive (IDE/Parallel ATA disk in an enclosure) which was formatted as one partition, FAT32 in Windows XP. I wanted to extract the files off of it using my Macbook Pro running Apple Macintosh Leopard (Mac OS X 10.5.6).
However, when I plug it in, I get a dialog box [...]