Hot on the heels of the 37 signals article about Launchbar… I have created a quick tutorial on how to get the same functionality out of the fantastic Windows application launcher, Launchy. So here we go… First you will need to download Launchy from Sourceforge, if you don’t already use it that is, (current version is 2.0). Once you are up and running, invoke Launchy by using the keyboard command Alt-Space (unless you have changed the defaults). Right click on launchy and select Options. An options window will pop up and then go to the Plugins tab. 1. Click on the ‘+’...

One day while cleaning up some copy for a customer I noticed that only a single space was used after each period. This confused me as I was taught you should always have a double space after that damn period. For quite some time friends and I have wondered and debated when this unannounced writing habit would have changed… and if it had really changed at all, maybe it was just a ‘web’ thing. Last night I had found a great post on a good way to set up subversion on a Rails project over at the Maniacal Rage blog. When I opened my laptop this morning that same article was still...

It’s nice to see that Google has finally implemented some the features of other gChat iterations into the integrated gmail talk application. Today we are seeing the group chat and smileys added to gChat for gmail. It’s about time we start seeing features from the three iterations of gChat to start merging. Now only if we can get some file transfer action! Get more details after the jump. [via]