Category Archives: Macintosh Productivity

Essential OS X Applications

I’ll now be working from home two days a week, and took a work iMac home with me. (Doing coding on my 12″ iBook would be too painful to contemplate.)
So last night, and this morning, I did a complete, from-scratch build out on this iMac. I’ve been building up a list of the software I [...]

My Workflow: TextMate, Subversion, and Python

I’m focusing in on some very important parts of my workflow. Version control is Subversion. I’m most of the way through the book on it.
Text editing is TextMate. I was trying to use vim, because it’s one editor I can use both on my OS X desktop and SSH’d across the network to linux boxes. [...]

How To Install Subversion in OS X

The folks behind Subversion don’t produce an OS X binary, so they link to a third party who produced one. Unfortunately, the current regular version is 1.4.3, and the latest OS X binary is 1.3.
I found a different binary at Martin Ott’s site. I have no idea why his site isn’t linked from Subversion’s, but [...]

Becoming A Code Ninja

It’s time to become a code ninja.
I’ve been looking at the long list of technologies I need to master for work. (And quickly!) I’ve also been looking at the even longer list of technologies I’m interested in and would like to study in depth.
Clearly, I can’t do it all. Not immediately, at least. (And certainly [...]

How To Handle E-Mail And Voicemail Properly

From 1999, but still very good advice. Via 43Folders, with a summary.

I’ve Been Putting Off Reading Procrastination.doc…

I downloaded a file called procrastination.doc from 43folders or Lifehacker or one of the other personal productivity sites I follow. It’s been sitting on my desktop since the beginning of April, and I’ve been meaning to read it.
Somehow I found that funny. I just printed it out. We’ll see.
(Turns out it WAS from Lifehacker.)

BrowseBack Impresses

So I’ve been playing with BrowseBack lately, and I’m pretty impressed. It’s a Macintosh product that keeps a running watch on what web pages you visit (you can exclude pages like webmail, your online banking sites, etc.) in a permanent archive on your computer. (You can set it to take up as much or little [...]

My (Not The) Perfect OS X Terminal Setup

Noted as changes from default settings. Also, hit “Use Settings as Defaults” every time you change something on the “Window Settings” palette..

Terminal –> Window Settings –> Shell –> Close Only if the Shell Exited Cleanly
Terminal –> Window Settings –> Emulation –> Visual Bell
Terminal –> Window Settings –> Buffer –> Unlimited Scrollback
Terminal –> Window Settings –> [...]