I wonder what’s in that loaded menubar. I see: Dropbox, Rescue Time, Skitch, Spirited Away, Hazel, Fuzzy Clock, Growl and some system icons. Out of those I use 5 out of 7. I love dropbxx but I have no real use for it. Rescue Time is something that I can’t see using without using the pay service.
Check out TextExpander’s new “Fill” functionality. In. Sane.
My love for TextExpander knows no bounds.
Pasties for the three snippets I mentioned (which need to be tweaked for your own setup):
Also mentioned: Make Link is an indispensable Firefox extension that lets you grab a customized, marked-up, “one-click” pasteboard of the current web page (including variables for title, URL, and quoted text).
Lightweight 193hp superbike performs a miracle | DVICE
0 to 62 mph in 2.9 seconds.
I’m sorry flickr I know this is a lot for me to just drop on you like this.:
Denny’s “Achinos” Commercial (via dennysrealbreakfast)
My favorite comercial of now.
Alfred App This looks promising. I wont be uninstalling my beloved Quicksilver just yet. It’s missing a lot of the features that I need.
From one of the makers, Vero Pepperrell’s blog Users have described us as a perfect Quicksilver replacement which, as a long-time user of Quicksilver, is a true honour. It was with much sadness that I read at the end of 2007 that developer Nicholas Jitkoff would no longer be evolving Quicksilver (considering I recommended it to every new Mac user I met) so when Andrew suggested that we develop our own flavour of quick launcher, I was over the moon! Designer Ollie Kav created the fab look of the site, working closely with us.
I hope this matures into something beautiful. Quicksilver is dying as open source software. Google Quick Search Box will never be allowed to do all the things Quicksilver does.
BBC News - S Korea child 'starves as parents raise virtual baby'
Reminds me of all the pets that died when people were too busy with their tamagotchis.
To the UPS man who put my fathers latest work-out equiment against the screen door. Message recieved. It was funny.
468 Hours
Recently I’ve been cutting out bullshit from my life. It needed to be done for a while and taking another look at Mr. Mann’s essay Better had a hand in that. So did Brett McKay’s article The World Belongs to Those Who Hustle.
First I blocked twitter and facebook in my host file, then I cut my RSS feeds by 43% (123 down to 70). Those first two will find their way back into my life in April and the feed count will grow but I’ll be more aware of them now.
Now is the challenge: tv. I never thought of myself as a tv person but three days into tracking my consumption and I’ve found almost twenty days of time I could get back by cutting three shows out of my diet. The Daily Show, The Colbert Report and The Late Late Show. I’ll miss them and I’m sure they’ll be joined by other shows I watch out of habit more than interest.
I wont say that late night tv steals 468 hours a year from me. I DVR and EZTV a lot of it. So I watch them while doing other things: RSS feeds, cooking, and eating. I can’t stretch those to fill the hours. Even using vibrEAT and only taking a bite every 30 seconds I come up short.
So what I end up with is split focus or procrastination both are equal in how they affect my work. That’s something I can’t tolerate. So they’re gone.
I’m doing a new writing exercise everyday. I take a line from my archives, oldest to newest, then expand on them. Today, was an easy start. Tomorrow will have to be expanded from:
I will murder you like your mom should have months before you were born
This will be hard since the line is old and not good. I think I wrote it because it made me chuckle. There’s no emotional taste to it on my tongue.
I’ll do it though and I’ll own it.
Hi, Cassy.
I’ve updated toffersurovec.com to better reflect what projects I am and am not working on. For lovers, stalkers, and crazy men in gimp suits.
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Picks
MackBreak Weekly, recently dedicated an entire episode to what is usually the last act, their picks. The entire series is douche-lite and rathole packed. It’s a weekly and genuine conversation between passionate guys about Apple stories and inanimate things they have fallen in love with. I relate to the last bit, so here are my picks. I’ll keep the reasons pithy and the list just a little longer than comfortable.
iPhone Apps
Simplenote: My ideas start here, sync with JustNotes and then get finished in Scrivener. -iTunes
Instapaper: My time is BI (Before Instapaper) and AI (After Instapaper). In BI it was dark and anything I wanted to read later would become a bookmark in Safari and junk it up. This is something I try to get everyone to use. -iTunes
Reeder: Easy on the eyes and does everything right. Instapaper button. -iTunes
Outside: Beautiful weather app that will tell me if I should put on a sweater, tee, or sunscreen. -iTunes
Pastebot: I have and will buy anything Tapbots makes. This app will blow your mind if you let it. -iTunes
Here, File File!-: The people who make this are friendly and answer support questions quickly. This app saved my ass. iTunes
Software
1Password: Q3{?8o&dJ4B
Automatic: You know what you can do with this.
BetterTouchTool: I swipe down with three fingers and it closes a tab. I tap on the top right corner and it opens expose for free.
Caffeine: Every friend with a MocBook thanks me for this when I show it to them.
Carbon Copy Cloner: A bootable backup of your Mac will save your ass.
Cinch: Try the demo out, really use it; if you say $7 is too much for a simple app then you’re a cheap bastard.
CleanMyMac: This gave me back more hard drive space than upgrading to Snow Leopard.
Hazel: If I was Don Draper, Hazel would be my girl that does my filing.
Lips: If things stay in my Instaper for too long I copy the text throw it into Lips and put it in iTunes.
Omnifocus: Use this. -iPhone Companion App
Quicksilver: I wish this lovely app would find a new daddy that would really make it great again.
Scrivener: If you’re a writer this is your application.
TextMate: I got this in a bundle, and it’s where most things I write start. This application feels like home.
Pen and Paper
Space Pens: I always have one of these small guys on me. It being a bit spendy and easy to lose don’t outweigh the pros.
Zebra G-301 Gel Pens: Writes smooth and fast.
Field Notes: I don’t care about the colors they come in but I do care that they will ship fresh ones to me quarterly.
Rite in the Rain Notebooks: I get ideas in the shower and this helps justify spending $20 on a space pen.