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Productive Mac Software Bundle – Recommended

5th December 2011 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

Some tips on a Mac Bundle

Filed Under: Blog, OSX Tagged With: mac, osx

Network Diagrams: OmniGraffle Tip – Merging Shapes

28th November 2011 By Greg Ferro Leave a Comment

In OmniGraffle, you often want to merge shapes together to create a single object, but you don’t want to lose resolution and you want them to scale properly. Grouping doesn’t help, but this does.

Filed Under: Blog, Network Diagrams Tagged With: mac, osx

iTerm 2- Top Tab Tip – Show the Profile Name

12th October 2011 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

Quick tip on configuring iTerm 2 to show the profile names in Tabs – because it annoyed me.

Filed Under: Blog, OSX Tagged With: cli, mac, osx

Internets of Interest:18 Aug 2011

18th August 2011 By bookmarks 1 Comment

Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 18 Aug 2011:

Filed Under: Bookmarks Tagged With: Bookmarks, drobo, mac, osx

EtherealMind’s iPad Home Screen

1st October 2010 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

People have asked what applications I’m using on my iPad.

Filed Under: Blog, Musing Tagged With: ipad, mac, Musing

OSX: Disable Skype Splash Screen on Mac OSX

17th July 2010 By Greg Ferro 2 Comments

How to disable the loathsome splash screen when Skype starts

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OSX: SuperDuper – The Other Backup Software

29th March 2010 By Greg Ferro 1 Comment

SuperDuper is the other backup program for OSX. It’s has one killer feature that Time Machine lacks.

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OSX: Path Finder Review

27th March 2010 By Greg Ferro 4 Comments

It took me a while to get used to Path Finder. Now I can’t imagine using the OSX Finder at all.

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Review: goSerial – Console Break for Network Devices on OSX

14th March 2010 By Greg Ferro 8 Comments

This is a quick look at the serial console program for Mac OSX called goSerial. There are not many serial consoles programs available and I wanted to review this for my own use.

Filed Under: OSX, Reviews Tagged With: cli, mac, osx, tools

Using Choosy for OSX. A Better Way to Use Multiple Browsers.

6th March 2010 By Greg Ferro 3 Comments

I use multiple web browsers all day. One for typical web, and another for network management. I need a way to easily select which one I want.

Filed Under: Operation, OSX Tagged With: mac, osx, tools