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. [...]
CHM Viewers for Mac OS
A quick search for Mac CHM viewers yields a handful of open source & shareware apps which provide Mac users access to Windows help files in the Compiled HTML Help (CHM) format. A few older shareware apps such as Chimp and CHM Viewer are only available in PowerPC versions and apparently no longer actively developed. [...]