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Little Lion Luxuries

July 19, 2011 Posted in Mac, OSX by

I’m sure the release of Lion will be accompanied by an entire pride of in-depth reviews. In fact, people have been doing warm-ups to get ready for John Siracusa’s mammoth review… So, instead of digging too deep, or tackling any of the more controversial features  —  and it’ll be interesting to see which generates the most arguments […]


Revealing Lion’s Hidden Library Folder

July 19, 2011 Posted in Geekery, Mac, OSX by

The OS X user-level Library folder (/Users/<your short name>/Library, or ~/Library for short) is hidden by default in Lion. I’m going to show you several different ways to show and open your Library in Lion, in increasing order of geekiness and permanence. Caution: anything you do in your Library, you do at your own risk. […]


Fantastical adds better Alfred support

June 9, 2011 Posted in Apps, Mac, Productivity by

FAO Mac keyboardistas. I am very much enjoying Alfred as a Quicksilver replacement; it’s a great app with great support. With easy Fantastical support as well, it’s even better. Now I just kick off Alfred and type “f tomorrow 10pm Ian’s party” to add a new appointment to my iCal calendar. Nice. preppeller: Just a […]


Five Obscure Mac Keyboard Shortcuts

August 19, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Mac, Productivity by

Yes, it’s a list post, with a prime number of items, to boot. Sue me. Here’s five of the more obscure Mac keyboard shortcuts I use, plus some bonus tips for good measure. If you know about all of them already, you’re probably really über-geeky (umlaut tip: hit Option-U to prepare an umlaut; it’ll then appear […]


Installing Markdown as an OS X Services Menu Item Using Automator

August 4, 2010 Posted in Geekery, Mac, tips, tutorial by

I just had a quick look around the web for ways to install Markdown translation as a Service (i.e. available from the Services menu) on my Mac. Most of the hits I got seemed to be quite old, and involved hacking about with an existing service for another text converter. So, I experimented. And the […]


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