05 Dec 2009
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Category: OS X

My development platform of choice.

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05 Dec 2009
OS X

Using Quicksilver, the OS X app launcher

I’ve seen Quicksilver mentioned several times at LifeHacker (for example, this video presentation by Quicksilver’s maker), so I decided to give it a go.
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12 Feb 2009
OS X
UNIX and the shell

Batch unrar from the command line on Mac OS X

Rar is a popular archive format on the web. When I need to unarchive several rar files at once, I use RarLab’s command line tool. Here’s how.
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02 Dec 2008
OS X

Removing black border from Mac OS X Leopard screenshots

When you take a screenshot of a window with Mac OS X Leopard (CMD+CTRL+SHIFT+4, then spacebar), and paste it into Photoshop, it will be surrounded by an annoying black frame around it. Here’s how to get rid of it. More»

09 Nov 2008
OS X
openoffice.org

Using OpenOffice to batch convert file formats on OS X

In my increasingly more and more frustrating attempt at finding some use for OpenOffice, I tackled file formats, including batch file conversion. As you can expect for an application written in Java, it wasn’t easy. More»

25 Oct 2008
OS X

Setting up OS X for PHP Development with MAMP

Setting up a Mac for PHP development used to involve a few visits to Marc Liyanage’s excellent site, playing with NetInfo and the command line. But now there’s MAMP, and NetInfo is gone. So here’s how to setup PHP development on Leopard. [Note: since writing this, it looks like Marc has started distributing PHP packages again.] More»

19 Mar 2006
OS X

What's Inside My Mac

All the software and apps in my Mac – a reminder for when I need to rebuild it from scratch. More»

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