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Install JQuery and jGrowl plugin. Also include I18n.

  def display_flash
    flash_types = [:error, :warning, :notice]

    messages = ((flash_types & flash.keys).collect do |key|
      "$.jGrowl('#{flash[key]}', { header: '#{I18n.t(key, :default => key.to_s)}', theme: '#{key.to_s}'});"
    end.join("\n"))

    if messages.size > 0
      content_tag(:script, :type => "text/javascript") do
        "$(document).ready(function() { #{messages} });"
      end
    else
      ""
    end
  end

in application_helper.rb

  # Generate URL-based Breadcrumbs.
  # Based on http://rubysnips.com/url-based-breadcrumbs
  # Modified and adapted for i18n by Claudio Poli (http://www.icoretech.org)
  def show_breadcrumbs(wrapper = "p", separator = " » ")
    r = []
    r << link_to(I18n.t(:home), "/")
    url = request.path.split('?')
    segments = url[0].split('/')
    segments.shift
    segments.each_with_index do |segment, i|
      title = segment.gsub(/-/, ' ').titleize
      title = I18n.t(title.downcase.to_sym, :default => title)
      r << link_to_unless_current(title, "/" + (0..(i)).collect{ |seg| segments[seg] }.join("/"))
    end
    content_tag(wrapper, "#{I18n.t(:path)}: " + r.join(separator), :class => "breadcrumbs")
  end

This is based on Paul Lutus work, version 2.4

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

=begin
/***************************************************************************
 *   Copyright (C) 2008, Paul Lutus                                        *
 *                                                                         *
 *   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify  *
 *   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by  *
 *   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or     *
 *   (at your option) any later version.                                   *
 *                                                                         *
 *   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,       *
 *   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of        *
 *   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the         *
 *   GNU General Public License for more details.                          *
 *                                                                         *
 *   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License     *
 *   along with this program; if not, write to the                         *
 *   Free Software Foundation, Inc.,                                       *
 *   59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.             *
 ***************************************************************************/
=end

PVERSION = "Version 2.4, 08/25/2008"

# Modified to work as a TextMate command by Claudio Poli (http://www.icoretech.org)

$tabSize = 2
$tabStr = " "

# indent regexp tests

$indentExp = [
  /^module\b/,
  /^class\b/,
  /^if\b/,
  /(=\s*|^)until\b/,
  /(=\s*|^)for\b/,
  /^unless\b/,
  /(=\s*|^)while\b/,
  /(=\s*|^)begin\b/,
  /(^| )case\b/,
  /\bthen\b/,
  /^rescue\b/,
  /^def\b/,
  /\bdo\b/,
  /^else\b/,
  /^elsif\b/,
  /^ensure\b/,
  /\bwhen\b/,
  /\{[^\}]*$/,
  /\[[^\]]*$/
]

# outdent regexp tests

$outdentExp = [
  /^rescue\b/,
  /^ensure\b/,
  /^elsif\b/,
  /^end\b/,
  /^else\b/,
  /\bwhen\b/,
  /^[^\{]*\}/,
  /^[^\[]*\]/
]

def makeTab(tab)
  return (tab < 0) ? "" : $tabStr * $tabSize * tab
end

def addLine(line,tab)
  line.strip!
  line = makeTab(tab)+line if line.length > 0
  return line + "\n"
end

def beautifyRuby

  comment_block = false
  program_end = false
  multiLine_array = []
  multiLine_str = ""
  tab = 0
  source = STDIN.read
  dest = ""
  source.split("\n").each do |line|
    if(!program_end)
      # detect program end mark
      if(line =~ /^__END__$/)
        program_end = true
      else
        # combine continuing lines
        if(!(line =~ /^\s*#/) && line =~ /[^\\]\\\s*$/)
          multiLine_array.push line
          multiLine_str += line.sub(/^(.*)\\\s*$/,"\\1")
          next
        end

        # add final line
        if(multiLine_str.length > 0)
          multiLine_array.push line
          multiLine_str += line.sub(/^(.*)\\\s*$/,"\\1")
        end

        tline = ((multiLine_str.length > 0) ? multiLine_str:line).strip
        if(tline =~ /^=begin/)
          comment_block = true
        end
      end
    end
    if(comment_block || program_end)
      # add the line unchanged
      dest += line + "\n"
    else
      comment_line = (tline =~ /^#/)
      if(!comment_line)
        # throw out sequences that will
        # only sow confusion
        while tline.gsub!(/\{[^\{]*?\}/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/\[[^\[]*?\]/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/'.*?'/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/".*?"/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/\`.*?\`/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/\([^\(]*?\)/,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/\/.*?\//,"")
        end
        while tline.gsub!(/%r(.).*?\1/,"")
        end
        # delete end-of-line comments
        tline.sub!(/#[^\"]+$/,"")
        # convert quotes
        tline.gsub!(/\\\"/,"'")
        $outdentExp.each do |re|
          if(tline =~ re)
            tab -= 1
            break
          end
        end
      end
      if (multiLine_array.length > 0)
        multiLine_array.each do |ml|
          dest += add_line(ml,tab)
        end
        multiLine_array.clear
        multiLine_str = ""
      else
        dest += addLine(line,tab)
      end
      if(!comment_line)
        $indentExp.each do |re|
          if(tline =~ re && !(tline =~ /\s+end\s*$/))
            tab += 1
            break
          end
        end
      end
    end
    if(tline =~ /^=end/)
      comment_block = false
    end
  end

  STDOUT.write(dest)
  # uncomment this to complain about mismatched blocks
  # if(tab != 0)
  #   STDERR.puts "#{path}: Indentation error: #{tab}"
  # end
end

beautifyRuby

In iTunes 7 there was an option to hide them, in iTunes 8 there isn’t. This sucks. Close iTunes, open a terminal and write:

defaults write com.apple.iTunes show-store-arrow-links -bool FALSE

From a slashdot’s article:

Google owns any content you create using its Chrome browser and can filter your Gmail messages if it likes.

Facebook says it can sell its users’ uploaded images as stock photography.

YouTube can keep footage of your kids forever, even after you’ve deleted it from the site.

AOL can ban you for using vulgar language on AIM.

Of course nobody forces you to use those services, you have just to know that’s happening :)

As you probably know (this is an old trick) it’s possibile to speed up mail.app by vacuuming it’s database, which is created with sqlite.

There’s also a trick to perform an autovacuum on it, here’s how:

Quit mail.app then open a terminal and issue the following:

sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index ".dump" > EnvelopeIndex.sql

Add

pragma auto_vacuum=1;

to the top of EnvelopeIndex.sql

rm ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index
sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index ".read EnvelopeIndex.sql"

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