The best manager for passwords, software keys, secure notes and accounts is now available exclusively in the Mac App Store. I use it since I discovered it and I never regret paying for it. The fact, that I have to buy it again is softened by upcoming 4.0 release (which would have been an payed upgrade anyway) and the currently reduced price at the Mac App Store. Go and get it, it's worth every cent.
This is yet another post which needs an explanation before I can start. German Bloggers like to throw "Stöckchen" (sticks) at other writers. This isn't offensive, but an invitation to write about a specific topic or question. I haven't heard about this in English blogs before, but I think that "throwing a bone" would be a quite matching expression.
So Klaus threw me a bone: Tell about an application for Linux you like.
This is quite a touch challenge for me. I never used Linux as a desktop OS, but all my servers are running Linux and there are many command line tools which started to grow on me. Klaus suggested that the bone is about desktop applications, so don't tell anyone I'm writing about my favorite command line tool.
XKCD explains.
Apples latest iteration of it's famous desktop OS seems to have a really deep relationship to the linen texture introduced with the current generation of iOS.
Personally, I like it the same way I liked the good old brushed metal look in earlier versions: It doesn't bother me.
Since others some people don't agree with me and Lucy asked me if there is a way to change or remove that texture I started digging. The first place I started looking was the Dock.app as the Dock handled Expose and Dashboard in previous versions. It turned out I was right, Dock.app also handles Mission Control and contains the tile image I was looking for.
Before you start reading:
Matt Gemmell explains the steps to make this setup really useful. I've used it on my Mac Pro for about seven months and it works like a charm.
ln -s is a really useful feature of Unix and therefore Mac OS X. Reminder: If you work in Terminal.app, be sure you understand what's happening. There might be no undo.
How I've switched from scripting to real coding without going mental.
Or more precisely: A small collection of applications which helped me coding.
A solution for poor text rendering in TextMate or OS X in general when it comes to light on dark text.
Solarized is a sixteen color palette (eight monotones, eight accent colors) designed for use with terminal and gui applications.
And it works great.
Today everyone is expected to have a blog. Tumblr offers a convenient method to create one very fast. It has it's drawbacks (read: downtimes), but there is one thing that makes it stand out against it's competitors like Posterous: Their theming engine is really excellent and makes it easy to go from static mockup to finished template. They also allow the use of JavaScript, which is also a big plus when you want to add fallbacks for CSS3-effects and so on.
So I started creating templates like the one for Georg.
With my current project I realized it can be quite time consuming if you want to make changes to the HTML once you converted it to a template with Tumblrs template tags in it.
The solution however was pretty straighforward: Using a small bit of JavaScript to strip all {blocks} allows you to display the html your working on locally without unwanted effects to the layout.