Archive for August, 2009

Turn on Word Wrap in Aptana

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Okay, this has tripped me up a few times because I can never remember exactly where to turn on word wrap in Aptana, and for some strange reason the developers decided to leave this commonly needed (to say the least) function off by default.  This is partly due to the fact that Aptana has more than one section for “editors” in the preferences menu.  One of them is “Window” -> “Preferences” -> “General” -> “Editors”.  The other is in “Window” -> “Preferences” -> “General” -> “Aptana”.  The second location is the one we’re looking for.  Aptana also happens to be one of the few standalone IDE environments for the Apple iPhone… unfortunately, they may only bring this feature back if savvy readers like you vote.

aptana-word-wrap

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Set Up Google Talk on Pidgin IM

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

It’s relatively simple to add Google Talk to your Pidgin instant messenger client.  The great thing about a multi-platform instant message client is the ability to aggregate Facebook messenger, AOL, MSN, Google Talk, Twitter, etc. all into one client.  I personally don’t like using the Facebook chat because I usually have about 50 bazillion tabs open in each Firefox window, and a few windows… but I rabbit trailed a bit because here I’m talking about Google Talk on Pidgin.  I’m fairly certain you can do the same kind of thing on Adium, or any other chat client out there that supports XMPP protocol.  Add a new account and enter similar settings to the following…

google-talk-on-pidgin

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