Category: Mac

Top 5 OmniFocus Applescripts

I rely on OmniFocus (both the Mac and iPhone versions) to maintain some semblance of order in my life. I occasionally think of ideas for scripts to make OmniFocus for Mac fit better with my workflow, but I seldom have the time to...

Mac

OS X cron log

Surprisingly, I could not find a log on my Snow Leopard system that showed what cron was doing. I know that Apple is big on launchd (which is on my list of things to learn about someday), but I'm a Unix guy and I needed to debug...

Mac

OS X service for posting text to pastebin.com

How I created an OS X service to post text to pastebin.com: I launched Automator and chose the "Service" template for my new workflow. I dragged in a "Run AppleScript" action and pasted in this AppleScript code. I then dragged in...

Mac

Preventing Quicksilver’s Clipboard History window from popping up when quitting applications

A few months ago, I noticed that Quicksilver's Clipboard History window would pop up unexpectedly when I used Cmd+Q to quit applications. Mildly annoying. I finally decided to search for a solution and I found a workaround at...

iPhoneMacProgramming

Xcode/iPhone error 0xE8000001: problem and fix

As you all probably know, I've written a word game for the iPhone called Word Up! <shameless-plug> </shameless-plug> Tonight, I started getting an error while trying to run my app from Xcode on my device (provisioned...

Mac

OS X 10.5.5

You can now grab OS X 10.5.5 from Software Update. What does it have? From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2405: General Includes recent Apple security updates. Addresses stability issues with video playback, processor core idling,...

Mac

New MacBook Pro Firmware

MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 1.5.1 just popped up in Software Update: After installing and rebooting:...