When you compress a file or folder in the Finder via the Create Archive command, a ZIP file is created using the current date as modification date. But when you’re archiving older data, it’s much more useful for the ZIP file date to reflect the date of its contents, since a few years from now [...]
Fans of John Gruber’s Markdown will appreciate HumaneText.service, a system-wide Mac OS X service that translates between markdown and XHTML with quick key-commands: Shift+Apple+{ and Shift+Apple+}. Simply beautiful! If you haven’t heard of markdown, it’s a simple and elegant means of writing plain text that is highly readable “as is”, yet easily converted to HTML. [...]
Snow Leopard Services: Set ZIP File Date
One of the more popular posts on this site is an entry from October of 2007 on creating a ZIP archive and setting the modification date via an Automator workflow. As I wrote then: “…when you’re archiving older data, it’s much more useful for the ZIP file date to reflect the date of its contents, [...]