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4 Mac Entries
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08-05-2010 Productivity Proclivity
So I’ve begun reading O’Reilly’s “The Productive Programmer” and am trying to put ideas and apps mentioned in its text. I’m learning Unix commands here and there I was never familiar with, like pushd and popd. I’m also learning about quite a few apps I never would have used otherwise. While I myself am focusing [...]
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04-30-2007 Deckchairs & Doctypes
Scribes, which I had previously mentioned in this post sure is cool. It’s basically like TextMate, only stripped down and sold for parts. Scribes is what’s left of TextMate when they’ve sold off the wheels and the in-dash DVD player, the espresso machine and the spinners. Scribes allows you to easily and cleanly define templates [...]
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04-24-2007 Windows Quicksilver?
I am totally subserviant to Quicksilver now. (see my post from a few days ago) So tonight when I sat down at my [slow, in need of RAM but not worth it] Windows machine, I looked around for Quicksilver-like apps for Windows. What I found, essentially narrowed down to two programs: Launchy and Colibri. While [...]
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04-22-2007 Awesome Macness
So John put me onto RCDefaultApp, and it seems to be a great, simple solution to a vexing problem with Mac OS: File type associations don’t stick. Whereas in Windows, all filetypes are regulated by the evil ruler, the Registry, in Mac files seem almost to be free-floating entities with no compass telling them how [...]