useful tips

might be a great way to record iOS demos…

mac > appletv before Mountain Lion
$10 with a trial

"Moom allows you to easily move and zoom windows to predefined areas of the screen, or to make them full-screen, using either the mouse or the keyboard"

A bit like divvy.

Jumpcut is an application that provides "clipboard buffering" — that is, access to text that you've cut or copied, even if you've subsequently cut or copied something else. The goal of Jumpcut's interface is to provide quick, natural, intuitive access to your clipboard's history.

"After upgrading to Lion I noticed that the Homebrew theme that I’ve been using since Snow Leopard doesn’t display colors correctly(using different colors for directories, different types of files etc.) any more when working on remote hosts via ssh (local dir colors still work though) and switching to other themes doesn’t help. After messing around with the Terminal settings I finally found the cause and a solution. It seems Lion changed the terminal type to xterm-color256 during the upgrade (don’t remember what the setting was in SL though). The solution is simple enough, just change the emulation type for terminal from xterm-color256 to xterm-color (see screenshot below)."

"ClipMenu can manage clipboard history. You can record 8 clipboard types, from plain text to image.<br />
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To paste a recorded item, you just pop up menu by invoking the shortcut key, and select a menu item from the menu."

Teaches git about github

"AudioSlicer is a Cocoa GUI application for Mac OS X that finds all silences in an audio file and allows you to split it into several smaller audio files and to name/tag them properly. <br />
For now only MP3 is supported but other audio formats may be added in the future. <br />
While most other tools doing this split automatically according to certain criteria, AudioSlicer shows you all silences within a certain range of duration. You can then listen to the silence - well, to the audio before and after the silence really - and then you decide if you want to split there. <br />
The splitting is done without loss, there is no decoding and re-encoding of audio data taking place."

"X Lossless Decoder (XLD) is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. "

interesting… check back on this

"Remapping the Cmd+Q (Or Any) Shortcut Key Open up the System Preferences window, and then head down into Keyboard."

Uses RVM to install Rails 3.0

slick concept

"git config --global core.excludesfile = /Users/mat/.gitignore"

very useful—intercepts keyboard input so you can remove/add keys without turning off the machine.

"~/Library/DefaultKeyBinding.dict { /* Remap Home / End to be correct */ "\\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLine:"; "\\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLine:"; "$\\UF729" = "moveToBeginningOfLineAndModifySelection:"; "$\\UF72B" = "moveToEndOfLineAndModifySelection:"; }"

"Now if you already have a .ppk file from your PC that you want to convert to use on your Mac you need to visit the Putty Website www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html and download puttygen.exe (on your PC) now open it, and using the File menu, load your .ppk that you already use, and type in your pass phrase. Now go to the Conversions menu and export the key as an OpenSSH key – hey presto – you now have a key file that will work on your Mac! Such a simple solution, yet that took me so long to figure out … Anyway, now you just need to copy your new .ssh keyfile over to your home (~) directory on your Mac and set the permissions to 700 (chmod 700 yourkey.ssh)."

"Open Terminal Here is an AppleScript by Marc Liyanage which allows to open a new Terminal window and `cd` to the current Finder location by a mere click. This is delightful for heavy Terminal users."

using to image my boot drive to my new ssd

"Cinch gives you simple, mouse-driven window management by defining the left, right, and top edges of your screen as 'hot zones'. Drag a window until the mouse cursor enters one of these zones then drop the window to have it cinch into place. Cinching to the left or right edges of the screen will resize the window to fill exactly half the screen, allowing you to easily compare two windows side-by-side (splitscreen). Cinching to the top edge of the screen will resize the window to fill the entire screen (fullscreen). Dragging a window away from its cinched position will restore the window to its original size."

"Windows/Mac/Linux: The email arrived with tab breaks everywhere, excess spacing, strange Word-conversion characters, and you just don't have time for this. CleanHaven is there, on any system, to fix the text any way you need it, whether it's human or computer error. Paste in whatever text you've got, then pick from the drop-down menus and sections up top what you need fixed. CleanHaven knows how to patch up capitalization and spelling errors, sure, but can also sort items in alphabetical or numerical order, strip out excess spaces or tabs, quickly repair broken email or HTML copies, and otherwise do the things you'd grumble about while doing manually. There's also a find-and-replace function that's pretty powerful, and analysis options for seeing the frequency of words and phrases."

"The C300 is clearly a drive made for Windows 7. With no TRIM utility, poor 512-byte aligned performance and clear degradation over time with heavy random writes, the C300 is best used with Windows 7 and its native TRIM support. Luckily for Crucial, there are a lot of Windows 7 users out there. Update: Version 2.6.33 of the Linux kernel supports TRIM as well. Presumably the C300 would do just as well under Linux so long as there's TRIM support. I often get questions from Mac users asking what the best SSD is for OS X. Since Apple still won’t support TRIM you need a very resilient drive under OS X. That path leads you to SandForce. Pick up a Corsair Force, OCZ Vertex 2, G.Skill Phoenix or whatever SF drive tickles your fancy if you want the best of the best in your Mac."

Lint looks very cool.

super-charged scripting utility for Mac OS X. Its custom keyboard shortcuts, and superior integration with running applications make getting your work done quickly and elegantly its top priority.

" small, but powerful utility for file and folder synchronization. DirSync Pro can be used to synchronize the content of one or many folders recursively. Using DirSync Pro you can make incremental backups. In this way you'll spare lots of time because you don't have to copy all the files each time you want to update your backup; only new/modified/larger files would be copied. Use DirSync Pro to easily synchronize files from your desktop PC to your USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...). Use this USB-stick (PDA, Notebook, ...) to synchronize files to another desktop PC. Unlike many other synchronization software, DirSync Pro is Open Source; it is 100% free of charge, 100% free of commercial text, 100% free of advertisements and 100% free of spyware. Programmed completely in platform independent Java so it can be run under nearly every modern operating system including Windows, Linux and Macintosh."

"Anyone who tells you with absolute certainty which operating system is “the best” without knowing your individual needs is probably going to be wrong – and I include myself in this. The right choice for you may be Linux, or it may be Mac, or it may be Windows. Choosing is a complex dance between hardware needs, price, aesthetic preferences, application requirements, technical competence, and even “what my friends use”. I think the best piece of advice that I can give, though, is this: if you are considering switching platform, don’t expect “the other side” to be the land of milk and honey forever. Every computing platform has its pros and cons, and once the honeymoon period is over, you’ll run into them."

"a different kind of racing game. Instead of controlling a single vehicle, take control of a whole swarm of bees and fly around the track while strategically shifting your swarm into different formations. "

"a hosted virtual private network. Our service creates an encrypted link between your computer and our servers and then forwards all of your internet traffic through this link. For example this prevents local eavesdroppers from listening in on your web communication at a public WIFI hotspot. Furthermore unlike many other commercial VPN's that may be blocked by firewalls our program can work on any Internet connection that allows you to browse web sites. The service is provided for free by showing advertising at the top of web pages that you view while you are using the AlwaysVPN network."

"Textorizer1 is now available as a downloadable application for Linux, Windows or Mac. It's by far the best version, with many more controls over the generated image. The online version is still available if you'd rather not install it. Ditto for textoriz

handy table showing the fonts by OS

stats on the installed base of fonts by OS

FolderShare alternative

VirtualBox runs on Windows, Linux and Macintosh hosts and supports a large number of guest operating systems including but not limited to Windows (NT 4.0, 2000, XP, Server 2003, Vista), DOS/Windows 3.x, Linux (2.4 and 2.6), and OpenBSD.

Option 1: Learn not to care about your data. Don't save any old email, use a film camera, and only listen to physical CDs and not MP3s.

makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service

an easy-to-use tool that provides functions to split and merge PDF files or subsections of them.

The Corporate Ipsum Dashboard widget is a Lorem Ipsum generator Peter Gibbons might use in a TPS Report…if he were a graphic designer and had a need for a Lorem Ipsum generator.

a cross-platform application to visually compare and merge files for Windows, Mac OS X and Unix

If PDF is electronic paper, then pdftk is an electronic staple-remover, hole-punch, binder, secret-decoder-ring, and X-Ray-glasses. Pdftk is a command-line tool for doing everyday things with PDF documents.

DarwiinRemote is a tiny software for OSX which reads data from and sends data to Nintendo Wii Remote (aka. Wiimote). DarwiinRemote allows you to control your applications by using Wii Remote.

lets you see, share and take control of each other’s computer screens and applications.

Like foldershare, but supports linux. No locks yet on files opened by >1 people...

Synchronizes files across your computers and your team's computers, integrated into Windows, but there's also a web interface. It also stores past versions of documents, handles huge files gracefully, and works both through firewalls and offline.

Apple recommends you and your friends change your gamma to 2.2 You can download the right profile here: http://www.smugmug.com/help/safari/sRGB%20Color%20Space%20Profile.icm

takes the guesswork out of song selection - instead of scrolling through your library, just pick any song to build a playlist in seconds.

PDFLab lets you split and join PDF documents as well as insert images and blank pages.

Synergy lets you easily share a single mouse and keyboard between multiple computers with different operating systems, each with its own display, without special hardware. It's intended for users with multiple computers on their desk since each system use