Checklists vs. To-Do Lists

A small thing, but an important point. Checklists and To-Do lists are different. There is a neat distinction between a to-do list and checklist. Checklists are a documented process, for something that you do daily, and do to list is something you assembled yourself and you need to do at certain point of your day. [...]

Developer and Power User Tools

Justin Williams has up a nice list of developer and power user tools. (Much more on the developer side of things than the power user side) Here’s my additions and places I differ. My own responses are oriented much more around power users rather than developers (although I do both).

Photo Editors

I’m anything but a graphics pro. I have a copy of Photoshop CS4 that I use occasionally — more often I use Illustrator and Photoshop to check the files from graphic artists and ensure everything is right or make small modifications. (I’m dreading the day I have to bite the bullet and upgrade to the [...]

Combining Scripting and Quickeys

One reason I switched my macro program of choice from iKey to Quickeys (beyond some reliability issues) was Quickeys’ ability to store shortcuts and then call the shortcut via Applescript.  If you’ve ever spent hours trying to figure out how to script something using GUI scripting simply because Applescript support was lacking you can probably [...]

Testing Contactizer Pro

Regular readers know that I’ve been having an ongoing search for the perfect Address Book and Contact workflow. Honestly this has been one of the weakest aspects of OSX in my opinion. For about a year I used Salesforce.com and had a few “hacks” to make it a bit more integrated into my regular workflow. [...]

Thoughts on Google Apps

I’d mentioned a few weeks back about my switching much of my mail over to Google Mail. The reasons were two fold. Firstly my server somehow got put on a spam blacklist and I couldn’t get it off. Needless to say this led to a lot of lost mail. The second reason was to have [...]

My Ultimate ToDo Management

I think I’ve finally found my ultimate organization system. I’ve been using Appigo ToDo for years. It syncs with iCal using Appigo Sync. But I was never fully happy with this. I tried various other services such as Toodledo and Remember the Milk but wasn’t happy with those either. However Appigo just came out with [...]

Fix Tab Problem in Safari

OSX Hints has a must read post on how to disable a LCC plugin to fix a Safari tab display problem. This is the best OSX Hint ever! I’d been batting my head against this one for months. I had blamed at various times both Glims and ClicktoFlash. I even uninstalled all plugins with no [...]

Using Python to Cleanup Excel

Often you get a spreadsheet with some data that needs heavily filtered. You could try Applescript but let’s be honest. For text processing Python is so much easier. So here’s a Python script I use a lot with Excel. It’s pretty flexible following my scripting rules. It’s designed to be more a template that I [...]

Handling Difficult Printing

So I had to print a large number of labels today. (By large I mean about 500 pages worth) The problem is, as some of you undoubtedly know, for the really good labels they are thick and you can’t print too fast. Otherwise they don’t feed through laser printers properly. (They stick together, lose their [...]

Live Mesh for Snow Leopard

OK, this excites me even more than new iMacs. Microsoft finally released a Snow Leopard compatible version of Live Mesh. Ars has the story. Live Mesh is the sort of cool technology that Apple should have made part of OSX years ago. Think of it like iDisk or its competitors but rather than syncing to [...]

GlimmerBlocker

So most of the plugins for Safari I used to use now work with the new 64 bit Safari. Admittedly some are a tad slower than I’d like. Plus there still are a few bugs (such as the auto-play bug in ClickToFlash that plays all QT video if you have it set to take the [...]

Readability

OK I can’t take credit for this one. But this is a very nice little script I picked up from MacScripter. I put both the Applescript and Python versions. I usually activate things like this with LauchBar and activate a terminal script. The script basically takes the web page you are reading, eliminates all the [...]

Dual Pane Finder Windows

OK, I’ve gone a few days without giving a script. I’ve been going through a lot of my old scripts and revising them somewhat. Often translating them from Applescript into Appscript + Python. This one is for an application I have on my Finder icon bar for created faux dual pane Finder windows. All it [...]

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