This is totally awesome and far nicer than using bluetooth file transfer to put python files for pys60 onto your Nokia phone. Nokia Multimedia Transfer [http://europe.nokia.com/A4423134] Works via bluetooth or the data cable and provides a drag and drop interface similar to finder.…
Here's a quick tip. If you want to open FileMerge (Apples graphical diff utility available in developer tools) from the CLI you can use the command opendiff e.g: opendiff file1 file2 This save lots of hassle when you are trying to resolve versioning conflicts, as I always…
Just thought I'd mention this, unlike linux and windows if your mac crashes you aren't told that the filesystem integrity needs to be checked when you reboot. Now this is probably a good thing up to a point, as macs do a good job of hiding…
You'll be interested to know Safari 3.0 beta replaces the webkit framework thus borking safari 2.0 + everything else that relies on webkit. If it's too late for you check this out: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/06/11/more-on-rolling-back-from-safari-3-beta/…
Being a habitual user of NetNewsWire I find it quite annoying that mail.app doesn't have a mark all as read button. However there is a context menu that you can use mark all mail in the selected mailbox as read. Trouble with that is that it'…
I am hoping to get my hands on a happy hackers keyboard for mac [http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/26/happy-hacking-keyboard-lite-2-for-mac-touts-apple-key-demotes-c/] in the not too distant future. In preparation I have modified caps lock to act as the control key as this is the position on the Happy hackers…
I used FileVault [http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/filevault/] for about a month and I found it really degraded the overall experience of using my mac. Basically using filevault caused a huge slowdown in performance. In addition I quickly found the repeated prompting to compact the filevault every time…
MacFUSE [http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/] is a implementation of FUSE (File-system in USErspace) [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspace] that is provided via a kernel extension. So what is FUSE? FUSE provides a easy way for anyone to create their own filesystem through providing hooks into…