Posts tagged ‘mail’
Google got me
June 27th, 2011 at 7:49 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve said before that although Google Chrome works well, I prefer to use Safari. Recently, though, Google’s made some changes that are forcing me to use Chrome. Here’s the setup. I have two email addresses: a “Dr. Drang” address at GMail, and a work address that runs through Google via Google Apps for Business. Apple…
Ghost in the machine
April 12th, 2011 at 9:49 pm by Dr. Drang
Last week I had a weird experience as my office iMac began working on its own, switching Spaces and swapping windows while I watched helplessly. I soon figured out what had happened, but I’m still not sure why. Let’s start with a little background I use two Spaces: Space 2 is for iCal, and Space…
MsgFiler upgrade
February 28th, 2011 at 10:17 am by Dr. Drang
I’ve been using MsgFiler, an Apple Mail plugin, for quite a while now. I wrote up a longish description of why and how I use it back in 2009. The short summary is I need to keep local copies of my work emails, and I need to keep the various projects separate from one another—one…
Combining and printing many emails
June 15th, 2010 at 4:21 pm by Dr. Drang
I’m often faced with the need to gather up and print out all the email I have on a project at work. I’ve written before about how I organize messages in folders by project—and use MsgFiler to help with that—so the gathering part is taken care of. What about the printing? Let me first agree…
Scheduling to-dos
April 15th, 2010 at 4:01 pm by Dr. Drang
Geez, it’s been a while since I last posted an original script here, so let’s fix that. One of the things I miss about OmniFocus is its ability to hide tasks until a given date. The advantage of being able to do this is that you can add the task when it comes to you,…
Never can say goodbye
April 12th, 2010 at 9:41 am by Dr. Drang
Back in January, I wrote this little script for determining which process is preventing me from emptying my Trash. You know the problem: you try to empty your Trash and you get an error message telling you that file xxx can’t be deleted because it’s in use. My script, called trash-users, invokes the system-supplied lsof…
