For years, I’ve been trying to find a good application that’ll let me open a set of windows and applications, specifically for projects that I develop. For example, say I have a project where I have two URLs open in tabs in a browser, a folder (project) opened in TextMate (text editor), a terminal window [...]

I’ve been running the same copy of Microsoft Office for years. Good old Mac Migration Assistant moves everything over nicely whenever I get a new machine. For years, as long as I can remember, every time I open MS Word, a popup dialog box tells me that “An unexpected error occurred while trying to load [...]

What great news! AT&T decided to double their 3G speed, putting it over 7 Mbps for 3G users. That’s cool, but we don’t even have 3G available where I live and work, in Western North Carolina. Thanks, AT&T.

Funny: Tom sent me this, from his laptop this morning.

I came across a nice, simple task management application for the mac. I regularly check Productivity Tools in Apple Downloads, and I noticed this Freeware.

Smart Folders aren’t very bright. Sorting by date or name doesn’t help either. Using another program (or collection of programs) to better organize email threads and collections is wasteful, time consuming, and requires too much manual effort for the workflow.

This one’s a bit obvious, but it’s one of those that’s hidden and difficult to remember. I have my Finder set to always display file extensions. I’m a developer; I actually prefer to see my file extensions.

UPDATE: I’m using Journler now… it’s really doing the job for me. Check it out if you haven’t done so. About a year ago, I started looking at and using some PIM (Personal Information Management) applications. These things are great in that you can add notes, web pages, clippings, images, PDFs, and all sorts of [...]

In Finder you can select a bit of text, then drag it to the desktop. This creates a text clipping (.textClipping file). But when you reopen the text clipping, you can’t select and copy the text from the text clipping. Generally I’ll take a quick screen grab of what I’m trying to save (using Command [...]

Here’s a nice one for ya. It’s an apple/mac dashboard widget that will check your Google Adsense earnings. Simply install the widget, enter your login criteria, and slam. You’re golden! I’ve been using this guy for a few months, and it works great! It actually pulls the data from Google’s API directly or from another [...]