Galen Grover – Connecticut Web DeveloperSometimes I write things

• In safari (must use safari) go to pandora.com and login or signup
• Go to file->Open in dashboard
• Select the main pandora window and adjust the edges to fit the area you want
• Click Add on the top right of your screen
• On the widget click the i on the bottom right and uncheck the only play audio in dashboard option

Tip: To refresh the widget press CMD+R

By default when you’re tabbing through a form a Mac won’t stop on selects or checkboxes. To fix this open system preferences, and go to the keyboard section under hardware. Click “Keyboard Shortcuts” on the top. On the bottom of that page there is an option for “Full Keyboard Access”. Set it to all controls.

Finally, a way to make the home and end keys work on my mac (only cocoa apps) as they do on my pc. Put this file in /Library/KeyBindings/. Create the folder if it doesn’t exist. The keys will work the next time you open an application.

I recently bought a Mac Mini in hopes of learning to develop for the iphone. I decided to do all my web development work on my new mac for a while, to try and get used to the new OS. On my PC i use notepad++. It has everything I need: built-in ftp, tabbed files, save all open documents, search/replace in all open documents…and it’s free!!! Fine, I can do without built-in ftp, but even after removing that from my required list I still can’t find a decent Mac text editor.

Here’s my rundown:

Coda ($99)

• No save all open documents
• No search/replace in all documents

Textmate ($60)

• no tabs?
• no tabs? really? No I’m not starting a project!

SubEthaEdit ($43)

• No search/replace in all documents
• No save all open documents

BBEdit ($125)

• Drawer is annoying, tabs are much better
• No save all open documents
• No search/replace in all documents

I miss notepad++.