I was doing a search in Houdah Spot when I realised that there are hundreds of megabytes of video files in Skype Application support directory. On checking thes evideo files, they are MP4-encoded memes. What that actual bloody hell is…
Using Launchbar for different text case conversions
Mulling over the Apple shindig yesterday followed by a quick read of my RSS feed this morning. Some bullet points. Apple MacBook looks good for people who need more than a MacBook Air and less than a MacBook Pro. Leap…
Briefly wanted to mention SwitchUp from Irradiated Software. When working on customer sites, I am able to have a completely different instances of most Mac apps. For example, I have separate Safari, Terminal, profiles for each of my customer sites with…
I need to search my own blogs often to find related blog posts. I decided to add a custom search templates to my LaunchBar I add one for each of my blogs like this. I also added one…
Omnigraffle 6 changes the screen layout in major but mostly acceptable ways. Instead of the floating inspectors they are now now embedded into the window. On the whole, I much prefer the new style which is docked to the right…
The OmniGroup has released OmniGraffle 6 in the last week or so. At this point I’ve stopped using it because of deadlines and the changes it is making to my diagrams. This example is a side by side view of…
On the podcast, Ethan uses Adobe Audition for editing and I’ve been using Apple Logic Pro 9. With the new release of Logic Pro X, I considered switching to Audition so we were compatible. I’m not a fan of Adobe…
Most Apps have a search box that lets you search within the app. The obvious thing is ⌘-F and the text search box opens, like this: Only, problem is that I really want to get to the Application Search bar…
Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 is not compatible with Mountain Lion. I’m getting constant problems with copy/paste, table formatting and screen display.Microsoft claims that it is Mountain Lion ready but it’s the worst performing app on my installation. This is…