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TortoiseSVN is my personal favorite SVN client, unfortunately it’s only fully supported on Windows. With a little bit of hacking, though, TortoiseSVN is usable on OSX. You can checkout, commit, update view the repo, etc. At this point there are no overlays or Finder contextual menus. These instructions are not for the novice user, but chances are if you’re using SVN it shouldn’t be a problem.

Swedish company Flattr has opened up the beta-test version of its social micropayment platform to everyone, the company said in a blog post on Thursday

Until now an invitation was needed to use the service — via redwolf.newsvine.com

I found a neat service that works wonders for TextEdit and (I’m sure) a bunch of other text editors. It’s free for the downloading from Ron Fleckner in Melbourne, Australia. What you’ll get is a ZIP file that expands into a little, 86KB application file called Change Case — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

What I came up with is a series of hardware checks that anyone can perform right after taking an iPhone 4 out of the box and syncing it for the first time. This is by no means the only way to test an iPhone 4’s hardware for defects, and there are probably more comprehensive methods out there, but the following procedure is basic enough for almost any user to follow. Plus, it should catch any glaring hardware defects in an iPhone 4 right away — via The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Just fire up your Safari browser and enter the following URL into the address bar: camplus://enablevolumesnap. Hit the Go button and you should see Safari close and Camera+ load up, except now when you go into the camera mode hitting either volume button will immediately take the picture. Should you wish to turn the feature off again, simply repeat the process but with camplus://disablevolumesnap instead.

We've shown you how to reveal hidden files in the Finder from Terminal's command-line. But if you work with such files a lot, it can be a hassle to open up a Terminal window every time. MacOSXHints reader colmiak came up with an easier way to toggle hidden files from within the Finder, using Automator, a series of shell scripts, and OS X's Services menu.

I ran into Firefox’s CSS printing bug that would only print one page and let the content overflow (without clipping the page). The actual bug is documented here by Mozilla.

After scouring the Net for a fix, I found that it can be caused due to a number of reasons. Here’s the list of fixes that should help you out if you’re facing this bug:

.css-element { overflow: visible !important; }

Plenty of sites offer a quick IP address check, disposable email, URL shortening, image uploading, and quick text saving. 1dl.us offers all of them, on one page, for your bookmarking convenience.

Want to find out how magically terrible your web code is? Just ask the Unicorn. The web’s governing body has launched a new validation tool called Unicorn that checks the quality of your website’s code against multiple web standards at the same time. You can find the new Unicorn “all-in-one validator” on the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) website at validator.w3.org/unicorn/.

The write speed of Solid State Drives is usually lower than the read speed. Many write operations on SSDs can slow down the system performance and reduce the longevity of the drive. Specialized programs such as SSD Drive Tweaker or Flash Fire aid the user in optimizing the system for Solid State Drives — via ghacks.net

Bounce offers free and dead-simple web site capture and annotation for hassle-free sharing of site-related notes.

Visit Bounce, plug in a URL, and Bounce snaps a screenshot of the web site you pointed it at. Once the capture is loaded you can draw boxes around elements of the site you want to annotate and immediately add text. When you share the URL for your capture others can check out your notes by mousing over the focus boxes you've created.