Category: Mac

Mac

Getting double-tap to drag working again in OS X Lion and Mountain Lion

Finally fixed one little thing that was annoying me on my work laptop with OS X 10.8.4. I couldn't double-tap to drag files or make selections. The fix is dead simple and it's from this CNET article: If you want to reactivate the...

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What is up with Mail.app and Exchange?

Fired up Mail.app on my work laptop today for the first time in a while. Outlook 2011, OWA (the Outlook Web interface) and my iPhone all show the same state of my inbox, with a single message in it. Mail.app shows two messages -...

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An unnecessary AppleScript to convert an OmniFocus task into a project

I hacked this up and then discovered via a tweet from Ken Case of the OmniGroup that it's completely unnecessary, because you can convert a task into a project in OmniFocus simply by using the outlining outdent shortcut of...

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Using TextExpander to expand a sequence of OmniFocus tasks: A failed experiment

I recently got turned on to TextExpander by the Mac Power Users podcast. One of my ideas was to use snippets in OmniFocus to create certain repetitive multi-action sequences. For example, when a project involves emailing someone...

Mac

OS X Lion: Restore windows when quitting and re-opening apps

I just upgraded my work laptop to Lion recently. After the reversed scrolling behavior, the next big annoyance was that when I launch apps they open with all of the documents that were open when I quit them. This was...

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Append to nvALT journal – Alfred.app extension for nvALT

I whipped up a quick little extension for Alfred that lets me very quickly jot down time-stamped text. The hope is that if I make it ridiculously easy to log what I'm doing and when, then maybe I can have better records of what...

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OmniFocus extension for PopClip

I just hacked together an OmniFocus extension for PopClip The extension creates a new task with the selected task in the OmniFocus quick entry window. Just a tiny bit of AppleScript. Installation Unpack...