Downloading Google Search History

You can use bookmarklets like
Geeklad's script

or you can do it manually with by entering the following into your browser

Changing the escape/command character in GNU Screen

Using Colourlovers.com API with NodeJS

Colourlovers.com has a pretty good and straightforward API.

The following snippet fetches the top palettes with the help of NodeJS

Customizing The Mongodb Interactive Shell

When the shell is launched, it checks the user's home directory for a javascript file named .mongorc.js.
If this file is found, its contents are interpreted and run by the shell prior to displaying the prompt for the first time.
This allows the user to define variables, customize the prompt, or update information that they would like updated every time they launch a shell.

Here is my .mongorc.js

Show file history in git

There are two amazing tools to show a history of a file in git.

gitk /path/of/file
or
tig /path/of/file

Google Chrome 'Confirm to Quit' on Lion

To avoid accidentally closing the browser, executing this line in Terminal makes Google Chrome require
Shift + Cmd + Q to quit.

localStorage in iOS5 Private Browsing mode

Attempting to use localStorage.setItem in iOS5 Private Browsing mode will throw the exception

QUOTA_EXCEEDED_ERRROR DOM Exception 22.

But getItem and removeItem calls do not throw.

You can see some details about that in the jStorage discussion