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Booting from an external DVD drive using Firewire Target Disk Mode

November 30th, 2008 · No Comments

This is documented by Apple but I had never realized it: if you put a Mac in Firewire Target Disk Mode, its DVD drive is also available, and it can be used to boot, for example, a machine that does not have a DVD drive (hold down Option while turning the machine on to access [...]

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Apple – MacBook design video – Very interesting video about the design and manufacture of the new MacBooks. The scenes showing the making of the unibody enclosure are awesome. (tags: mac video hardware )
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Synchronizing 1Password data between two local accounts (howto)

September 29th, 2008 · No Comments

I am a big fan of the incredibly useful 1Password. The latest beta release (2.8.3.BETA-11) introduces a new keychain format that, among other things, allows 1Password to detect changes made to the file by other programs and reload the changes on the fly. I am using this now to keep my 1P data synchronized between my work and [...]

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Dave Veloz's Mac Mini Mod, Monitor, & Keyboard | The Steampunk Workshop – Incredible modification of a Mac mini, including keyboard and monitor (tags: apple cool design mac mod )
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Open source on Mac – Relatively complete list of Mac-native open source applications (tags: mac opensource reference software )
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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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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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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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Grepping plist files

April 28th, 2008 · No Comments

I’m trying to track down why some of my attachments keep being downloaded to ~/Library/Mail Downloads/ even after I have set my Downloads directory in Mail.app to ~/Downloads/. I haven’t found it yet, but in the process I wrote a quick script for searching for a regular expression in .plist files, converting them to XML [...]

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Year of the Killer Task Management App: Wrap Up | View from the Dock – A series of excellent, detailed reviews of GTD apps for the Mac, including iGTD, OmniFocus, Midnight Inbox and Things. I agree with Troy's veredict about the best one being Things. (tags: gtd mac productivity reviews software tools )
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