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OSX Nuisance Folders

By Sam | Published: February 20, 2010
Building on a post by richthomas over on macrumors.com, use the following command to hide folders in OSX: chflags hidden /Users/samh/Public This is _very_ useful for getting rid of the stupid Sites, Public and Movies folders that are there by default in every snow leopard home directory. Use this command to unhide: chflags nohidden /Users/samh/Public
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Arbitrary HTML attributes and JavaScript

By Sam | Published: October 30, 2009
This is a technique that is pretty obvious, but nonetheless useful and worth documenting:  To put it succinctly, it is possible to add custom attrbutes to HTML elements, and query them out with JavaScript DOM operations.  So you might build elements with mouseover help text like this: <a id=”years” href=”#” helpText=”Please enter your motorcycle riding [...]
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