Posts in category “Featured”:

How to Display Events or Tasks on Your Desktop With icalBuddy

Posted on July 13, 2010
Filed under Featured, Mac, Miscallaneous | 2 Comments

I don’t really have any statistics about this but I’m quite sure that an overwhelming majority of the users of my icalBuddy program are using it to display calendar data on their desktop via GeekTool. Several tutorials on how to get this done have been written by different people, mainly for relatively non-technical users, which [...]

Trash files from the OS X command line

Posted on March 9, 2010
Filed under Featured, Mac, Programming | 3 Comments

I spend a lot of time in the Terminal on my computer — a lot of things are just better done with a command-line interface than in the GUI. When removing files via the command-line people usually just, well, remove them (with the rm command), but this means that they’ll be eschewing the Trash, one [...]

Gmail Backups with fetchmail on OS X

Posted on August 14, 2008
Filed under Featured, Mac, Scripts | 16 Comments

I use GMail as my personal email provider, and as much as I like the simple and snappy UI, the conversation views and the filtering and search possibilities, I’ve grown more and more worried about having all of my (important) mails stored on someone else’s servers. Now, out of all of the big IT companies [...]

Mac OS X Mouse Wheel Support for ActionScript 3 Flash Applications (v.2+)

Posted on April 26, 2008
Filed under ActionScript 3, Featured, Flex, Mac, Programming | 73 Comments

So I’ve finally updated the solution I’ve made earlier for enabling Mac OS X mouse wheel support in Flex applications to a second version. I didn’t want to continue adding stuff into the original post, so I decided to write a separate post just for this new version. As you can see from the title, [...]

A “Go to Parent of Current Folder” Toolbar Button for Finder

Posted on January 10, 2008
Filed under Featured, Mac, Programming, Scripts | 6 Comments

Although the updated version introduced with Leopard significantly improves upon the one in Tiger, I still think Mac OS’s Finder is lacking in several departments. I Don’t feel “at home” with separate file managers (Path Finder or ForkLift, for example — even though I do own a license to the latter, I only use it [...]

The Mac Applications I Use and Recommend

Posted on September 17, 2007
Filed under Featured, Mac | 9 Comments

I’ve long though about documenting the slew of applications I’ve accustomed myself to using on my Macbook, but I’ve never really gotten around to it until now. The main reason I have for writing this kind of a list is to document these things on a remote server (or preferably several – Google, I’m looking [...]

Changing Application Settings in OS X Based on (Network) Location

Posted on July 5, 2007
Filed under Featured, Mac, Scripts | 1 Comment

I Generally use my laptop in three different locations: At home At work, in my employer’s main building At work, in the building of a partner organization Changing application settings manually every time I arrive at a new location gets tiring really, really fast. The location settings you can create in OS X can specify [...]