Using Omnifocus Appropriately
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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…
OS X Backups – A complete Solution
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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…
More TextMate Tricks
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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…
How to Make Sure I Will Uninstall Your Plugin
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One of the first things you should do when building a WordPress theme/plugin is turn on WP_DEBUG in your wp-config.php file. Turning this on will make sure that you get notices for bad functions, deprecated items in your files…Every theme/site I build has this flag set in development (don’t set it on the production server).…
Harvest Online Invoicing & Time Tracking
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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…
OmniFocus Speed Tips
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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…
WPMU Dev – Terrible Usability
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As with much blogging this screencast is born of a rant about how WPMU Dev disrespects paying customers with their stupid WordPress admin notifications. After all the stuff that flies around about them plus the terrible usability and the long on promise short on delivery stuff regarding their plugins in their forums I’m not a…
Sparrow Mail
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Today we’ll look at Sparrow Mail as a third entry in to our series of looks at email clients. If you’re interested in the other two here is a look at Mailplane and Postbox. Features Sparrow is one of the newer entries in to the OS X email market and is made by Cactuslab, a…
Think Hard About App Updates
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The first thing you do when building an application is decide what it’s supposed to do, you don’t build a pretty interface then figure out what functions can fit inside that pretty interface. Once you’ve established what your application does it’s time to stick to your guns religiously. ###The Codebox Story Quite a while ago…
Hyperspaces – Gives Spaces some more Options
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Spaces is one of the signature features of OS X, letting you create virtual desktops to organize your applications. The downside for some heavy users is that having lots of spaces can make figuring out where things are a bit difficult. Hyperspaces looks to solve that issue by allowing you to customize your spaces. [Hyperspaces][hyper]…