Posts tagged ‘mac’
Dropbox/bin
May 21st, 2013 at 8:55 pm by Dr. Drang
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
May 12th, 2013 at 9:40 pm by Dr. Drang
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
May 3rd, 2013 at 12:21 am by Dr. Drang
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
April 20th, 2013 at 9:18 pm by Dr. Drang
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
April 7th, 2013 at 4:32 pm by Dr. Drang
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
March 18th, 2013 at 10:20 pm by Dr. Drang
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
March 1st, 2013 at 10:04 pm by Dr. Drang
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
February 18th, 2013 at 11:12 pm by Dr. Drang
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
February 16th, 2013 at 9:13 pm by Dr. Drang
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
January 31st, 2013 at 6:33 pm by Dr. Drang
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…
