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Entries from May 2008

Things gets synchronization abilities

May 26th, 2008 · No Comments

The latest version of the Things task manager (0.9.2) incorporates synchronization and support for Leopard’s system-wide to-do’s! As has become the norm with Things, the new feature is extremely well thought-out, and in my testing so far it works flawlessly.
This was the big feature I was most expecting, since it gives me back the ability [...]

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Ready-Set-Do! – GTD tool/methodology for Mac (tags: @readlater gtd productivity )
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How to use Things on two accounts on the same machine

May 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I am a big fan of Things, the very nice task manager from Cultured Code. I keep both personal and work-related tasks in it, and in my Mac I have two accounts, for personal and work-related use. This leads to me having to run Things on both accounts, while sharing the same database. Here’s how [...]

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Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader – Very handy guide to Google Reader shortcuts. (tags: googlereader howto rss tips )
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Firehose – Realtime Twitter Timeline – Real-time display of tweets – quite impressive! (tags: cool flash twitter )
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How to fix IImage Gallery pages after update to Wordpress 2.5

May 13th, 2008 · No Comments

In one of my private blogs, I use the excellent IImage Gallery plugin to show photographs. After the upgrade to Wordpress 2.5, all of the posts with galleries started failing by showing the message “There is no gallery in this post”. After puzzling about it for a while, I realized that this plugin uses the [...]

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tms [fernLightning] – Very cool command-line utility to explore Time Machine backups (tags: leopard macosx timemachine tools )
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Removing all extended attributes from a directory tree

May 7th, 2008 · 24 Comments

Here’s a simple one-liner I came up with to remove all HFS+ extended attributes on all files and directories below the current one in Mac OS X. Useful before creating a tar file that will be shared with non-Mac users (tar in OSX will create additional “resource” files to store extended attributes, which when untared [...]

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Prune Your Time Machine Backups Selectively – Nice pointer to a new version of GrandPerspective that properly displays usage in a Time Machine backup disk (tags: macosx timemachine tips tools )
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Tales from the Loonybin – Demystifying Mail.app Plugins – A Tutorial – Tutorial on how to write plugins for Mail.app on OSX. Maybe useful some day… (tags: cocoa howto macosx mail.app plugins programming tutorial )
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