Network design, architecture, thinking, working. Tech.
In the last couple of years, I find that I rarely use physical books to read something new. I recently started a new role that requires me to use a Windows 7 laptop and I’m finding it unreadable. Either there is something wrong with Windows or Apple have done something exceptional with screen displays.
Some tips on a Mac Bundle
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.
Quick tip on configuring iTerm 2 to show the profile names in Tabs – because it annoyed me.
Collection of useful, relevant or inane places on the the Internets for 18 Aug 2011:
Resizing all selected text with different sizes byt he same amount. A tip for OSX users.
I’m always looking for ways to improve my writing speed and accuracy. One way is to use specific keyboard shortcuts for tasks that are repetitive and prone to inaccuracy. So, using Cmd-C / Cmd-V for for Copy and Paste makes a whole load of good sense as it’s faster & more accurate than using the mouse to click through multiple menus, and put the cursor where it needs to be.
However, keyboard shortcuts are kind of limited. A more flexible approach is to use a program that can substitute short sets of text into much longer pieces. To do this, I use a program called TextExpander to keep a library of ‘snippets’ for expansion into a range of useful actions.
For example, I have a text snippet etmd and whenever I type these four letters, it is automatically expanded to EtherealMind.
The possibilities are endless, and I’m hoping to share a few different ideas and get feedback from you to help me build my collection of useful shortcuts.
Very occasionally I need to restart a process in OSX. Here some basic suggestions.
Occasionally my Bluetooth gets all wrong. Here is quick and brutal fix for bluetooth hangs on OS X.
Ever wanted to disable the Caps Lock key in OSX. I do.
