Do you find yourself needing to toggle the display of hidden files in Mac OSX? Yeah, me too. For us web developers this can often be to edit .htaccess files. For reference here is the code: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE killall Finder Don’t get me wrong, playing in Terminal is sublime geekiness but still… Continue reading Toggle display of hidden files in Finder with Automator (OSX)
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Making the most out of Dropbox with symlinks
Dropbox is great. It is a folder where you can drop your files and have them sync into the cloud securely and sync them with any computers you want. I primarily use this for syncing my MacOS keychains between my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro. This in combination with MobileMe ensures that almost everything is… Continue reading Making the most out of Dropbox with symlinks
Clean up Finder’s “Open With” menu
Recently VLC started showing up twice in my “Open With” menu in OSX Snow Leopard. In fact one of the links didn’t even work so I wanted to clean it up. This of course wouldn’t just apply to VLC, other apps can cause it as well. This list is built over time based upon the… Continue reading Clean up Finder’s “Open With” menu
Snow Leopard, Quicktime 7, and the new Quicktime X
So you upgraded to Snow Leopard? I did the day it came out, and it is a great release. So far I have found it very stable and it didn’t take long for the updates to the applications I use to flow in. In fact, many vendors had beta versions ahead of the release which… Continue reading Snow Leopard, Quicktime 7, and the new Quicktime X
Fluid application changes the way you work with web apps
I just downloaded and started using Fluid. This application lets you wrap your web applications into a Cocoa desktop application also known as an SSB (site-specific browser). This is cool for a number of reasons but most importantly your workflow. I have been wanting something like this for a while now because I find there… Continue reading Fluid application changes the way you work with web apps