Have you ever tried playing a video from your local network using software such as VLC or MPlayer and had the video stop every few seconds? I have a solution (currently only available on Mac)! ScoutFS is a file system that will pre-fetch data to avoid this locking-up. Once a network share is loaded (or, …
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Last week, I added support for client-side macros to Inflo. While I had previously reengineered the custom autocomplete widget (used for entering content) in anticipation of additions such as this, I hadn’t really thought about how the macros would actually work. In the end, I was surprised at how simple it was to add, although …
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I was going to blog about the software I’m currently writing, but that’s not happening, yet (although it’s been beta-test-ready for about a week and, given that I’ve made just under 100 subversion larger-than-ideal check-ins in the last seven days, it’s been getting refinements literally almost by the hour). Instead, I’m going to share a …
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