Posts tagged ‘mac’

Dropbox/bin

It’s so easy to see the inefficiencies in someone else’s workflows, but so hard to see them in your own. When you do finally root out some clumsiness in your setup—no matter how small—and replace it with a more streamlined system, it’s a cause for celebration. This is a small celebratory post. I’ve kept my…


Cleaning out Clean My Mac

I just got a notification on my computer from Clean My Mac 2, a utility I bought as part of the recent MacHeist nanoBundle. I have nothing against CMM2—it does a fine job of scanning my disk and finding files that might be good to delete—but I don’t want it nagging me to do so.…


Unsolicited TextExpander advice

This afternoon, Merlin Mann tweeted a link to a set of his TextExpander snippets: As requested, here’s a few of the random TextExpander 4 snippets I mentioned in Back to Work #116:i-0.us/18vNRnM— Merlin Mann (@hotdogsladies) Thu May 2 2013 2:41 PM CDT I will not comment on how foolish I think it is for Merlin…


MacHeist nano

So I went ahead and bought the latest MacHeist “nanoBundle.” Ten bucks for nine apps, at least four of which I’m sure I’ll use. I have no doubt PathFinder will be unlocked. As I write this, they’re about 80% of the way to the unlocking level with three days left. I assume a tenth app…


What’s really great about Fantastical

This morning I was listening to the most recent episode of Back To Work, and Merlin’s discussion of Fantastical reminded me that I’ve been meaning to write for months about why it’s so good. Merlin’s description actually came damned close to making this post redundant, but there’s still one important thing he left out.1 Everyone…


Deleting Safari cookies via AppleScript

Generally speaking, I don’t mind it when websites set cookies in my browser. They provide a degree of continuity that the otherwise stateless web wouldn’t have, and that’s convenient for many types of website. But sometimes cookies either get in the way or are an unnecessary intrusion. It’s relatively easy in Safari to delete the…


Renaming files

There’s been a lot of talk about Name Mangler today, both because a new version just came out (at a temporarily reduced price) and because some guy has been comically threatening1 Many Tricks with legal action. Name Mangler is a file renaming application. and it looks both powerful and easy to use, but I think…


LaunchBar duplicates

After my success at getting rid of Open With duplicates a couple of days ago, I decided to attack another duplicate problem: multiple copies of Transmit in my LaunchBar menu. These were, I learned, old copies of Transmit—versions 4.0.x and 4.1.x—that were, for some reason, being stored in subfolders of ~/Library/Application Support/Sparkle. My copy of…


Getting rid of Open With duplicates

This is the problem: You want to open a file using something other than the default application. You right-click its icon in the Finder, choose Open With, and a submenu pops up with an absurd number of duplicate entries. When you first noticed the duplicates, it was just one or two and you didn’t want…


More Engst

I’m a little behind on my podcast listening, so I just heard Gabe Weatherhead’s interview with Adam Engst today. It’s very good. In addition to the nominal topic of digital publishing, Adam also gets into the value of banner ads, mailing lists, and knowing your customers. I thought his comments on the success of Marco…