For a while I’d been using Amazon S3 with Jungle Disk as a backup solution of sorts. However Amazon changed the pricing model a bit a while back, and Jungle Disk doesn’t really play nicely with rsync based solutions like iBackup.app.
My friend Sutha told me about Mozy. It is a really nice solution for backup. […]
43Folders has a great guest post about how to protect your iGTD trusted system. One of the running jokes about GTDers is that you can fuck with them by messing with their trusted system. Where did this task for ‘give Tom £10′ come from? Oh well it must be true… That kind of thing.
I think […]
Some of the features of Leopard look cool. However, having just digested a skin-full of WWDC posts I’m just kinda meh. While there is some interesting stuff mentioned on Lifehacker, The Unofficial Apple Weblog and others, I still find one thing more exciting than anything. A new version of Quicksilver. That’s right a 3rd party […]
After the talk I gave this week one of my colleagues, Norm recommended ThisService. Similar to Platypus ThisService lets you make services out of scripts. The Daring Fireball blog has a good example of ThisService in action to do Google lucky searches.
Services combined with Menu-master to assign shortcuts are pretty awesome. Although you can also […]
This is a Keynote talk I did at work as a fill-in for our Lightning Talk series. Marco asked me to publish it. It’s reasonably sparse but all these apps were chosen because I think they are useful in some meaningful way. They aren’t in any particular order and this is certainly not an exhaustive […]
Sometimes I wonder if I’m mad to use Firefox for anything more than development.
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Being the crack web developer I am, I regularly have to test in IE6 or IE7. To do this I use Parallels Desktop which runs a virtual machine on my Mac. Since you can’t reliably have both IE6 and IE7 running on one windows installation I have two, one for each. This is a pretty […]
Connecting to Bluetooth from Python for Series 60 Nokia phones is actually really easy. It just appears to be voodoo. It all boils down to the Mac’s ability to create arbitrary virtual serial ports and PyS60’s ability to connect to them over bluetooth.
Make sure already paired your phone using the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Otherwise run […]
At the geek dinner on Thursday we met Mike Culver from Amazon Web Services. He was talking about Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). S3 provides a very cheap, reliable storage solution. EC2 provides a way to buy computing time and scale up the amount of power within minutes by using […]
I got Joost invites. If you want one, mail me.
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I love finding stuff like this. Jurgen Scheible has put together an awesome set of PyS60 tutorial examples. There are loads of snippets covering a heap of topics which are really easy to read. It’s been a while since I did anything with PyS60 but with my N95 on the way I thought I would […]
Mac OS X has had locations for a long time. These are sets of preferences based on a ‘location’. However there has never been an official way to automatically switch between locations.
Applications like Location X have gone some of the way to solving this problem by allowing you to switch location based on the wifi […]
As much as I hate to admit it Macs and Mac apps sometimes crash. However there is a great way to automatically restart applications without touching that mouse (bleh!). An article on Macworld looks at automatically restarting crashed programs. It uses standard OS X UNIX stuff like Launchd via the FOSS Lingon.
I just banished my […]
To do what it says on the tin (or at least in the title) run:
sudo dscl -p / -append /Groups/GROUPNAMEHERE users USERNAMESHERE
It was a pain to find how to do this, so I thought I would post it up to make it easier for others. I discovered that www (the Mac apache user) is not […]
I’ve been looking for this for ages, and finally I found it ymail.app. However, the developer Eli is no longer actively maintaining it and it doesn’t work with Y! Mail Beta.
Since we have a new API for Y! Mail hopefully someone can patch this project up from what is on Sourceforge. If you want to […]
Finally, a new version of Sticky Windows is available. It’s a universal binary. It costs $20, however. I love the concept, however it was previously a bit arsey on Tiger on my MacBook Pro.
The general idea is that you drag a window to the side of the screen, where it sticks as a tab. Effectively […]
My mac needs:
A way to sync files with my bluetooth phone
A way to download all my photos from my bluetooth phone and import them into iPhoto
A way to lock the screen and run some Applescript without worrying that my script is going to crash, or take too long to actually lock the screen
A way to […]
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) posted about AppFresh today. It helps automate the process of updating apps that don’t have auto-update installed (or updating ones you haven’t run recently).
I have around 300 apps in my apps folder plus 30 something pref panes. While I don’t claim to use all these things constantly I have been […]
The software I use to edit my blog, Marsedit has been under new management for a while. Ranchero who makeNewsgator who own the excellent NetNewsWire sold it off to Red Sweater. However, it seems to be going really well!
Since the ‘takeover’ there have been a promising number of minor updates and the new developer Daniel […]
I was a bit sceptical about TextMate at first. However, the more I use it the more I’m persuaded that it really is a true challenger to BB Edit.
The main thing that makes me say this is bundles. It the crazy extensibility of them that blows me away. I still admit I’m not totally savvy […]