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Terminal Tips: Enable Address Book debug menu

by Cory Bohon (RSS feed) on Dec 4th, 2008

You may recall that Safari has a debug menu that enables some hidden features, but did you know Address Book also has a debug menu?

In Address Book's debug menu, you can get options for logging, controls for metadata, printing selections, and removing orphaned images. You can enable this debug menu by typing the following command into Terminal.app (/Applications/Utilities):

defaults write com.apple.addressbook ABShowDebugMenu -bool YES

If you no longer wish to have this menu hanging around, you can remove it by typing the same command above, but replace "YES" with "NO."

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Tags: Address Book, AddressBook, debug, debug menu, DebugMenu

Filed under: Software, Cool tools, Open Source, Developer

MacGDBp Kills PHP Bugs Dead!

by Steven Sande (RSS feed) on Jun 16th, 2008

MacGDBpBothered with pesky PHP bugs? Grab a can of MacGDBp and exterminate those bugs FAST!

18 year-old Beantown open source whiz Robert Sesek has announced that he'll be releasing his MacGDBp project bright and early on Tuesday, June 17 at his Blue Static website.

MacGDBp builds on the open source Xdebug application to provide a native Cocoa Leopard-only app for remote debugging of PHP scripts. Connect to your running PHP script and you can do instruction stepping to see how your script is working. You can set breakpoints, view the current function call stack, and look at all local variable values.

Robert noted that MacGDBp is designed to be very familiar to anyone who has spent time using the Xcode debugger. He's releasing the app under the GNU GPL version 2, which (duh) means it is available at no cost.

If you do any work with PHP (hey, I'm constantly customizing WordPress myself), MacGDBp may be your new best friend. Be sure to set an iCal alarm for Tuesday morning and get your copy of MacGDBp.

Thank you, Robert, for telling us about your app!

Updated to add correct date

Tags: cocoa, debug, php, php-scripts

Filed under: Humor, Video

Quick! Where's the debug menu?

by Conrad Quilty-Harper (RSS feed) on May 26th, 2006

Matt Thomas has a bug stuck in his 23" Apple Cinema Display. Amusingly, the little fella is still alive: check out the video above to see it wandering across his screen. He has absolutely no idea how to get the bug out (although one commentator suggests he should lure the bug out with morsels of food) so at the moment Matt's hoping for the bug to graciously die off screen.

The same thing happened to me with my 17" Samsung LCD, I believe it was even the same type of bug! I too waited for the bug to die off screen but instead, the bug decided to lay his grave in the dead centre, right at eye level. Now whenever friends use my screen they instictually attempt to swipe it away. What do I say to them when they ask about it? "Well, I was playing this game called Bugdom - it crashed really bad one day and left one of the bugs behind". Gets 'em every time.

Tags: Apple Cinema Display, AppleCinemaDisplay, bug, Buggy display, BuggyDisplay, Debug, display, Samsung, video

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