[geeks] Apple software: the stuff you "gotta have"

Micah R Ledbetter vlack-lists at vlack.com
Tue Oct 16 13:24:03 CDT 2007


On Oct 9, 2007, at 17:24, Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> For all you mac-heads on the list, how about a list of the software
> that you "just gotta have".

I just found another cool one: PerlPad <http://perl- 
pad.sourceforge.net/>.

 From the site:
> You can execute Perl code from almost all Mac OS X applications  
> using the System Services facility.
> In any editable text area, just type some Perl code, highlight it  
> and press Cmd-Shift-E to evaluate it. It will be replaced with the  
> result of that expression.
> It also works the other way round: select some text and have it  
> processed by any Perl function you can dream up by pressing Cmd- 
> Shift-R (as is process).

That looks pretty dang cool!

  - Micah



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