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My history of task management applications…
Since I started using GTD a few years ago, I have used several applications for the computer-based side of my task management (which is where almost everything else eventually ends up). In chronological order, I have used:

The standard applications on my (aging) Palm device together with JPilot on the desktop [...]

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I just finished upgrading my MacBook Pro to MacOS X 10.5.2, but it didn’t go as smoothly as other times. During the installation from Software Update, when “Writing files” was at 14% completion, I had a kernel panic. Since it was mid-write, I guess some files were left in an unusable state and the machine [...]

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Following DrScofield’s instructions for setting up OpenSim , I thought I’d give it a try on my OSX laptop. The process is not quite as straightforward, but it works. Here’s what I did:

Download and install the Mono package for OSX from the Mono downloads page.
If you don’t have subversion, install it. I personally like the [...]

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I love Quicksilver, but the latest version crashes every once in a while. It’s not so frequent as to be really annoying, but the annoying part is that to re-launch it I have to go hunting in the Applications folder, or use Spotlight, none of which is an acceptable alternative being used to Quicksilver.
It occurred [...]

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The Unix getent command does not exist in OSX. Starting from 10.5 (Leopard), the administrative databases have changed from Netinfo to DirectoryService, and the main tool for looking things in DS is dscl (see also this article at afp548.com).
For example, to query a user by UID with getent, you would run:

getent passwd <uid>

With dscl, you [...]

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To use the new Wordpress 2.3 tags system with ecto, so you can set tags using the ecto side panel, the ecto configuration has to be changed from the default. The instructions are found in the ecto support forum (these instructions apply only to ecto3 – I don’t know how to do it for ecto2, [...]

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Update 1: I have modified the perl script to include Damon’s modification (see the comments) to make it work properly with the UTF-encoded Localizable.strings file used in recent 1Password versions.
Update 2: Somewhere around version 2.8.3 of 1Password there were some changes that make the original script not work anymore. I have updated the instructions and [...]

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It seems surprisingly difficult to map a keystroke to lock the screen in OSX – you can map a hot-corner to it, but if you prefer to use the keyboard, there is no official way to do it.
If you use QuickSilver (and why wouldn’t you?), you can set up a trigger (see also this tutorial) [...]

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One of the very annoying things in iCal (both in MacOSX 10.4 and 10.5) is that accept/decline notifications for meeting invitations are always sent to the sender of the invitation. This can be very annoying in some cases (for example, when a company-wide invitation for a talk is sent, the sender does not really care [...]

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Small annoyance: if you are using the 2.4 version of the Logitech Control Center , Growl notifications no longer appear. The solution is to remove /Library/InputManagers/LCC Scroll Enhancer Loader, log out and back in.

[From cocoaforge - A Festivus for the Rest of Us » View topic - Notification doesn't appear]

Update: this also has [...]

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