As a web developer I work with hex values a lot. It has been bugging me for some time now that the built in color picker in Mac OS X doesn’t feature setting and getting hex values. I have been taking long, long roads, through screenshots and Photoshop, around the problem. Today I decided to do the right thing and Google it.

Not surprisingly at all, someone, Jesper at Waffle Software, had already solved it and published a neat and simple fix. Download the default Mac OS X color panel extension Hex Color Picker over at Waffles web page – http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/. And why don’t you give them a donation if this free software proves useful.

I can’t stop wondering why Apple decided to put time on creating a Crayon color picker instead of something useful as a hex color picker.

I have been using the code editor Textmate for two years now and felt that I needed a change. So I bought Espresso. Espresso is a web development software from Macrabbit. It usually costs about 80 USD, but yesterday you could get it through the Macheist 3 bundle for only 39 bucks.

I have only been using Espresso for ten minutes so far, but so far so good; except for one thing. It did not have the awesome Textmate color theme Espresso Libre. Instead it only had a pale theme called Espresso Tutti Colori. It felt a bit uncomfortable, so I decided to devote 15 minutes in to porting Textmate Espresso Libre to Espresso. It is not an exact copy, but almost.

Get Espresso Libre here