Nokia Multimedia Transfer for Mac

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 Works via bluetooth or the data cable and provides a drag and drop interface similar to finder.…

BASH: Open FileMerge from CLI

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 find it…

Sneaky hfs_fsck post reboot

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 technical stuff from people…

Mark all mail as read in mail.app

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's too clunky. I…

Quicktip for mac: turning capslock into control

I am hoping to get my hands on a happy hackers keyboard for mac 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 keyboard. This actually makes a lot of sense…

Encrypt your homedir on your mac without FileVault

I used 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 I shutdown annoying especially as this process…

MacFUSE: sshfs for your mac

MacFUSE is a implementation of FUSE (File-system 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 the kernel. A list of FUSE filesystems tested with MacFUSE is provided on the…