Apple Mail ver. 5 doesn’t work with Exchange 2003. However, there’s a third-party solution that works pretty well. DavMail is a client that sits between Exchange and Mail. I’m a stickler for efficiency and I hate to waste CPU-cycles, but this worth taking a look at. DavMail has some pretty handy set-up instructions so I [...]
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Sorting Full Screen Apps in OS X’s Mission Control
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Trying to sort full-screen apps in Lion? Here’s how System Preferences Mission Control Check “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use This allows you to organize your full-screen apps by alt-tabbing through them (yeah not the greatest). Bonus: I’m still trying to get used to the three-finger swipes and accidentally alt-tab once in a [...]
Full Screen Terminal Keyboard Command on a Mac
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Purists wouldn’t call this full-screen but it’s close enough. In System Preferences->Keyboard & Mouse->Keyboard Shortcuts Use the plus sign (+) to create a new shortcut. Use the drop down, labeled Application, to assign our new shortcut to the Terminal. Menu Title will be “Zoom” no quotes. Use any keyboard shortcut you’d like, I prefer command+f. [...]
Xargs choking on whitespace
Monday, December 8, 2008
Every once in a while the normal recursive bash command doesn’t work and I resort to using find with xargs. Of course xargs hates whitespace and I often find myself working with files created by others. xargs chokes on whitespace thinking it’s an indication of a new file. The solution is to get find to [...]
Catching System output from Perl
Monday, November 3, 2008
I’m too lazy to install a perl module, on a local computer, for a quick whois on a few domains. Catching the shell’s output is more convenient in this case. Instead of first writing and then reading from a file, it makes more sense to use a pipe. Here’s a quick example: #!/usr/bin/perl open (WHOIS, [...]
Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X
Monday, November 3, 2008
I use this to lock and unlock my Mac, at work, based on the bluetooth connection between my phone and computer. Once my Mac detects that the phone is unavailable it locks itself. What you’ll need: Proximity 1.0 a free download from Apple. A compiled version of notify.c #include int main(int argc, char ** argv) [...]
Find current user with in an Applescript
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
I’m in the middle of testing this, but it should work: set MyName to do shell script “whoami”