Posts in category “Featured”:

Use Unicode Emoji as Icons in Native iOS Apps

Posted on April 29, 2012
Filed under Featured, iOS, Programming | 1 Comment

A while back, I wrote about using unicode emoji characters as icons in web apps. The big caveat with that was that these characters were only available on iOS devices, which made the trick much less useful in a web app, which of course are generally meant to be more or less cross-platform. If you’re [...]

How to Display Events or Tasks on Your Desktop With icalBuddy

Posted on July 13, 2010
Filed under Featured, Mac, Miscallaneous | 5 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 | 6 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 | 19 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 [...]

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 [...]