A notebook of various projects.
Came across a very cool Tree Map generator for your disk space for OS X, called “Disk Inventory X“. Distributed free with GPL. A very fast way to figure out where all your disk space went (and then to see the obvious collection of MP3 files at the end). Downloaded, installed, and ran in about [...]
I’ve been using Mac Journal for a little more than a week now. The basic editing and management features are very good. I’m very happy with this as a basic journalling tool. I’ve also figured out all the server configuration issues, successfully posting articles to both WordPress as well as Blogger/BlogSpot. The editor is weak [...]
With dozens of journals spread all over the place I’m looking for a way to simplify management of them. I’ve considered writing a database myself for this purpose, but would want to avoid this if possible. I came across “MacJournal” (from http://www.marinersoftware.com/products/macjournal/, and maybe http://homepage.mac.com/dschimpf/), which has very positive marks from MacWorld and CNET. Simple [...]
Nice review of upcoming OS X features. Since new hardware seems to be on the horizon (the home computer past the 6 year mark, and the work one is pushing 4) it’s nice to see some of the features. Mission Control is the one that caught my eye most – the Expose and Dashboard are [...]
Recent disasters and recovery of a failed video chip on a Mac Book Pro restore my faith in regular backups and leave me impressed with Apple Care. This is a quick accounting of events and resolution.
OS X has a couple of ways to bypass the normal starup process from your main boot device. One extremely useful one (for reasons discussed in a later post) is to start up OS X in “Firewire Target Mode”. If you hold down the “T” key when powering up, the machine will start up as [...]
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