Living with defaults – I learned this (and the value of web apps) when I started using 2+ machines on a regular basis. You just can’t maintain settings on everything, which is why apps like LaunchBar and MsgFiler are so great (because they react to your data, not setting up shortcuts, etc.). Adding Inline Search…
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Ten CSS tricks you may not know | evolt.org – I didn’t know #8 in this list, great tip. Why does LaunchBar cause Perl to take up lots of CPU resources? – I think everyone I know that has given LaunchBar a good trial has switched to it from QuickSilver. The iPhone and Public APIs…
Quickly locking your computer in OS X YouTube – Ronaldinho: Touch of Gold – talk about impressive… YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face – YUI is just getting better and better. As smitten as I am with jQuery, I’m going to have to take another hard look at YUI. Almost Everything I…
Rootkit – ugh. 🙁 OpenDNS add “shortcuts” – I already use LaunchBar for this functionality, which is akin to editing your HOSTS file. Michael Sitarzewski: Mac laptop, two internal drives? – even supports RAID configs, nice! WordPress Theme Generator – looks pretty nice. Buzz Marketing for Technology: One Bad Blog Can Kill You – this…
Even though Camino is doing very well, I finally decided to switch to Firefox in order to use the PwdHash extension (as previously discussed). I’m not loading up on too many plugins though, just PwdHash and Translator which tempted me before (I use Firebug and Web Developer in my development profile). I’ve created a main…
I used Safari as my primary browser for a little over a week. Disclaimer: I was not a fan of Safari before this and have used Chimera/Camino as my primary browser for several years. This post has my notes from the experience. The transition to Safari was pretty easy. LaunchBar already indexes my bookmarks, so…
There have been a number of interesting posts in the last few weeks from folks seriously thinking about what they want from an operating system. John Gruber’s latest post got me thinking about the applications bundled with Mac OS X. A quick survey of the apps I use and there are only 3 that are…
I’ve toyed with multi-clipboard apps in the past, but I think I’ve finally found one I’m going to stick with in shadowClipboard. I really like the implementation, and so far prefer the simple interface to the advanced interface. I’m a productivity tool junkie, but a very particular one. I probably ditch 90% of the software…
I am very dependent on these wonderful software packages, my kudos to their developers. Mac Software LaunchBar Launch applications, bookmarks, view phone numbers, activate songs in iTunes – all with just a few keystrokes. There have been some LaunchBar clones released recently, but the original is still the best. I’m a registered user. Path Finder…
Syncing data between machines hasn’t been an issue for me over the last 3 years because my PowerBook has been my primary development machine. Now that I’m back on a desktop as my primary machine, it’s something I have to deal with again. Let’s take browser bookmarks as an example. I still want to keep…
I made a list of all the software I’m installing on my Quad (it was a checklist initially, but I thought it might be interesting to publish). Sorry, I’m not including links – too many to locate and paste in; use your favorite search engine. A lot of this stuff is also linked on my…
Spotlight, Expose, Dashboard… I don’t use these. Really, not much has changed for me since 10.1 in terms of the way I use my computer. Am I missing out on things? I’m still using LaunchBar for launching and switching to apps, getting contact information, visiting bookmarked sites and doing searches. I generally use online tools…
Inspired by Kevin’s post, I decided to give Thunderbird another chance this week. I’ve used it 90% of the time, only going back to Mail.app a few times – but I don’t think I’m ready to switch all the way yet. Unfortunately, there are several features in Thunderbird that I really like, and miss when…
Not much this week; I’ve been away from the computer and when I’ve been on I’ve been busy coding (not as much reading). 🙂 MacDevCenter has a roundup of the LaunchBar clones. I’ve tried most of these and gave my $$ to the good folks at ObjectiveDevelopment. The folks at SnapperFish have announced their SnapperMail…