I have Spotify invites to share

[Read on, even if you are in the US].

I've been using this awesome service for over a year now and recommended it before, but unfortunately you need an invite to register an account, which are pretty hard to come by.
However, I do have some invites, which I wanna …

OS X Favorites Hint: Assign a shortcut to the "Save as pdf" function

If you want to save webpages as pdf documents or webarchives for archiving purposes or if delicious isn't enough and you just need a local copy and not just a bookmark, there are several ways to easily do this in OS X.
Most of the time I've been using Together with …

OS X Favorites: Google Reader via Fluid and Helvetireader

Recently I needed the ability to access my RSS feeds on the go (iPhone/iPod Touch) and switched to Google Reader from Netnewswire. Now, I know that Netnewswire has implemented Google Reader sync some time ago, but I never could get these two to play along as I wanted. …

OS X Favorites: Wallpaper Junkie

Wallpaper Junkie (mirror) is a simple utility that lets you view and download InterfaceLIFT wallpapers (over 1900 available). The easy to use GUI (featuring WallFlow) and the ability to set the downloaded wallpapers as the Desktop background make it the perfect tool for …

Using Geektool 3 to display a Twitter search on your desktop

Geektool 3 has recently been released for OS X and I thought I'd try out something new with it. At least new for me, that is. While I've been using it to display handy logs and infos on my desktop, I never tried it with news, or other internet-based text. So, here we …

Design How To: Enlarge images on hover

Here is a simple snippet of code, you can use in your CSS under advanced customization. It's the one I'm using for the following and groups modules (pictured below) on my profile. When you hover over an image, the thumbnail will enlarge. A nice little detail your site …

OS X Favorites: Animatabler

Animatabler is a plugin that adds effects when opening/closing windows of Cocoa applications.

Check out this demo:

What you'll need to do:

Download and install SIMBL (Smart InputManager Bundle Loader) if you don't have it already.

Download Animatabler

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