Posts in category “Mac”:

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 [...]

Prevent iTunes websites from opening the iTunes app using GlimmerBlocker

Posted on April 17, 2010
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A few minutes ago I clicked on an iTunes store link on a website and had to again completely lose it because of the iTunes app popping up without me asking it to. This is a common annoyance that people have found a bunch of different ways to combat, ranging from messing with the system’s [...]

Trash files from the OS X command line

Posted on March 9, 2010
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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 [...]

Print AppleScript files with color-coding in the Terminal

Posted on March 3, 2010
Filed under Mac, Programming, Scripts | 4 Comments

Even though I curse and hate its syntax, I have to admit that AppleScript certainly provides one of the nicest things OS X has to offer in comparison to other operating systems: almost-ubiquitous scripting of GUI applications (one could argue that this is not due to the AppleScript language itself, but the Open Scripting Architecture [...]

My Custom GeekTool 2 Build with Support for ANSI Colors, UTF-8 and Different Writing Directions

Posted on July 8, 2009
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A year ago I released version 1.0.8 of my icalBuddy command-line application that I initially wrote as a way to get nicely formatted lists of my events and tasks from the OS X calendar store on top of my desktop background picture using GeekTool. This particular version was notable in my mind because it introduced [...]

Quick Look Plugin/Generator for Image Folders

Posted on March 27, 2009
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One of the things that I’ve always thought Windows XP did better than OS X is how it displays the thumbnails of contained images on the icons of folders that have image files inside them. I always felt this to be quite useful, but couldn’t think of any reasonable way to implement it on the [...]

Opening a Bunch of Stuff at Once on Your Mac

Posted on February 20, 2009
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Every day when I come to work, I have a bunch of applications, files and web pages I need to open in order to get started. These are almost always the same, though with a little variation (for example, sometimes if I need to do something that requires a lot of concentration I might want [...]

Gmail Backups with fetchmail on OS X

Posted on August 14, 2008
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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 [...]

icalBuddy: Getting Events and Tasks from the OS X Calendar Store via the Command Line

Posted on June 20, 2008
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I’m a big fan of the “do not repeat yourself” principle, which, especially in the context of software, basically means that you should only have one place to change anything. Any highly volatile data that will be viewed from more than one location (or in more than one way) should only have one location and/or [...]

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, [...]


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