What is this Flow Thing Anyway
As a programmer I sit in front of a keyboard for at least 8 hours a day. Since I love what I do I often work on personal projects or contribute to open source software after formal work hours. That means a lot of typing and for a lot of typing you need the right [...]
About 6 months ago I purchased a Henge Dock for my 13” MacBook Pro and today it’s about time I give you my opinion on it. The Henge Docks are a beautiful piece of kit designed to vertically dock your Mac laptop. All of the cables route out the bottom of the dock so everything [...]
After some recent updates to Sparrow have greatly improved the speed issues I encountered (read my Sparrow review) I’ve been giving it a shot again and have realized that I hate having a unified inbox. It’s not so much the reading process of a unified inbox that I dislike. It’s nice to be able to [...]
When viewing books on the iPad there are a number of options, the two biggest being PDF with Goodreader and Kindle formatted book with the Kindle software. Today we’re going to take a look at the pros and cons of both options. Scenario My use case is that I want to have the books I [...]
As I’ve been looking at minimal writing apps on OSX and switching over to judicious use of text files I’ve also been on a quest for a great iOS app to edit plain text files. Since I’m a fan on WriteRoom on OSX already I figured the iOS version was worth a look as well. [...]
For a long time I’ve been an OmniFocus user that drank the coolaid and put everything in to Omnifocus, no matter how small the idea was. Inspired by a Mac Power Users episode with Merlin Mann I’ve recently spent a bunch of time pulling information back out of OmniFocus though because it was just a [...]
I wrote about backup once before but figured it’s been long enough that it’s worth revisiting, especially since my systems has a few minor modifications. While this may seem like going too far to some home users the fact is I use my computer for business. I’ve got crucial client files on here and if [...]
While TextMate is no longer the code editor I use day to day I still end up using is at least weekly and I’ve found number of new shortcuts to make working with Textmate even faster. This is my second post about TextMate Tricks. Fold the code Sure we all know that TextMate can fold [...]
I wrote a while ago about Billings and how it’s pretty okay but it’s missing a few key features that make it a half baked solution. The biggest selling point of Billings was that it doesn’t incur a monthly fee. One of the biggest issues with Billings is the crappy reporting features and I’m certainly [...]
I’ve blogged about key commands and time saving tips for TextMate. Like most programmers my day is spent in my code editor primarily but I also make heavy use of OmniFocus to organize the days tasks and I hate having to grab my mouse (the keyboard is way faster). Here are some of the things [...]
