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 [...]
Controlling notifications in iCal
December 11th, 2007 · No Comments
Tags: Mac · Software · Tips & tricks
Service Scrubber, Safari and keychains
December 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
I love Service Scrubber, which allows me to clean up the Services menu so that it’s actually useful. But I discovered that it does not interact well with the new code signing feature in Leopard, because it modifies Safari’s Info.plist file to disable services. Once this happens, the system will refuse Safari access to keychains [...]
Tags: Mac · Safari · Software · Tips & tricks
CopperExport and Leopard
November 2nd, 2007 · Comments Off
I just got my hands on Leopard, and it seems that CopperExport works fine with it! Please let me know if you find any problems.
Tags: CopperExport · Software
CopperExport 0.5.0 released
October 25th, 2007 · No Comments
Finally, CopperExport 0.5.0 is out! The big change in this release is compatibility with iPhoto 7, although there are some other minor changes, and the inclusion of server-side patches for newer versions of Coppermine. Get it now while it’s hot!
Tags: CopperExport · Mac · Software
grabcartoons 2.1 released
August 24th, 2007 · Comments Off
I have made a new release of grabcartoons, my comic-summarizing utility. This release includes some new abilities for modules, improvements in the structure of the output, and some bug fixes.
Technorati Tags: comics, grabcartoons, software
Tags: Programming · Software
Gentoo ebuild for Thinking Rock 2.0gamma
April 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Version 2.0-gamma of Thinking Rock has been [released for Linux](http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/gamma20.php). I have written an ebuild for it, you can find it here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154978.
Tags: GTD · Linux · Productivity · Software
TR2.0 gamma also works on Linux
April 12th, 2007 · No Comments
The latest [release](http://www.thinkingrock.com.au/gamma20.php) of
ThinkingRock has been officially made only for Mac, but I copied the
application directory ThinkingRock2.app to my Linux machine, ran the
ThinkingRock2.app/Contents/Resources/ThinkingRock/bin/thinkingrock
shell script, and it seems to work fine!
Tags: GTD · Productivity · Software
Ooooh, shiny: Thinking Rock 2.0
April 12th, 2007 · 27 Comments
I have been using Thinking Rock for a while to manage my GTD process, and I really like it. Today, after a long wait, version 2.0gamma has finally been released, at least for the Mac. So as soon as I got home, I downloaded and started playing with it. Here is my initial set of [...]
Tags: GTD · Productivity · Reviews · Software
GrabCartoons 1.12
September 11th, 2006 · No Comments
I just released version 1.12 of GrabCartoons, a nice comic-summarizing utility. Check it out!
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BoliMonitor, a contraction-monitoring program
February 26th, 2006 · 1 Comment
BoliMonitor is a very simple MacOS X program I wrote when the due date for our daughter was approaching, for my wife to keep track of contraction durations and intervals. In the end, the program went unused because our daughter was born through a medically-indicated C-section, but it’s functional, so here it is.
Just press the [...]
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