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OS X Hotkeys

Increased productivity comes in many flavours, but a favourite of mine is learning new hotkeys which save me time. There is also nothing quite like the reaction you get from a person who has been doing something the hard way and you show them a hotkey to jump right to it.

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Playing Your Spotify Top list

When you first open Spotify you are offered two tabs ‘What’s new’ and ‘Top lists’. If you select ‘Top lists’ you are then shown two columns which contain a list of the top rated artists, albums and tracks for everywhere, your country or just you.

So you can select to see what tracks, albums or artist you listen to most, or see what are the most popular with others.

As far as the tracks list goes, you can also play it. Choose ‘Tracks’ from the drop down menu on the left, and choose ‘everywhere’ from the drop down menu on the right. You now have a list of Spotify’s top tracks for the whole world. There is no simple ‘play’ button, but these steps aren’t too taxing…

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Panic’s Coda Bookmarks In Code Navigator

It is mentioned on the Panic site, but it took me ages to find it.

You can add bookmarks or tags to a file that will appear on Coda’s code navigator. Most of the time it’s as simple as an !

CSS:
/* !bookmark */

HTML:
<!-- !bookmark -->

Javascript:
/* !bookmark */ or // !bookmark

PHP:
/* !bookmark */ or // !bookmark

You can of course replace the word bookmark with anything you like.

For a full list:
http://www.panic.com/coda/developer/quicktip/5.php

Virtual Hosts for PHP5 on OS X 10.5 Leopard

I just spent a good hour trying to work out why virtual hosts wasn’t working for me on my local machine. Turns out I needed to:

1) Enable virtual hosts by uncommenting the line

Include /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf

in httpd.conf

2) Add the line

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1

to httpd.conf. I put it under the line

Listen 80

for now.

then…

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