August 21st, 2006 by sean
The essential Mail.app plugins for productivity:
Optional plugin for once you have your filter rules under control:
Heres a great list of many Mail.app plugins and tools including those above:
Apple Mail plug-ins and tools
How to set all this up? Read the documentation of course!
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August 21st, 2006 by sean
Here’s a cool idea, have a bunch of people design your next software product…
My Dream App is a grand experiment to see what happens when you combine the expertise of some of the best talents in the software and tech world with great ideas and feedback from everyone else.It works like this. For the first two weeks of the event, we’ll be collecting ideas for killer apps from hundreds, hopefully thousands of contestants. Then, the My Dream App team will be narrowing these down to 24 great (and developmentally feasible) entries.From this point on, we’ll be bringing in the best talents in the industry, including people like Kevin Rose (Digg), original Mac evangelist Guy Kawasaki, New York Times columnist and best-selling author David Pogue, and even Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to give their opinions and feedback on these ideas as they move on round by round. But ultimately, it’ll be up to the site’s users to determine which ideas make it to the end, with weekly elimination votes.
technorati tags:mac, software, programming, development
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August 20th, 2006 by sean
Hi Sandy,
See my attached proposal on your $25,000 development project.
….next day…
Where’s the proposal attachment? Sandy.
Note to self: “Doh!”
Oh yeah, you need this handy Mail.app plugin: Attachment Scanner Plugin for Mail.app
“When you send a message, it checks if there’s an attachment. If there isn’t, and it looks like you’ve referred to an attachment in the body of your mail (by using a word like attach, attaching, attachment, etc), it gives you a warning. …”
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August 20th, 2006 by sean
“The abbreviation MAMP stands for: Macintosh, Apache, Mysql and PHP.With just a few mouse-clicks, you can install Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X!
MAMP installs a local server enviroment in a matter of seconds on your Mac OS X computer, be it PowerBook or iMac. Like similar packages from the Windows- and Linux-world, MAMP comes free of charge. MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fashion: very easily.
MAMP will not compromise any existing Apache installation already running with your OS X. You can install Apache, PHP and MySQL without starting a script or having to change any configuration files! What’s more, if MAMP is no longer needed, it is sufficient to delete the MAMP folder and everything returns to its original status (i.e. MAMP does not modify any of the “normal” OS X).”
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August 20th, 2006 by sean
Unix Command Lines:
Some of these commands have not been tested on all platforms and may not be compatible with your system. Know your limits and use at your own risk.
File to MySQL: - Execute mysql statements that reside in a local file
mysql -u user -ppassword databasename < file
Launch CPAN: - Start the CPAN shell.
perl -MCPAN -e shell
List my IP’s: - Print a list of IP addresses for your machine
ifconfig | gawk ‘/inet/{print $2}’ | gawk -F : ‘//{print $2}’|sort
Power permissions: - Recursively change permissions by file extension
find . -name ‘*.extension’ -print0 | xargs -0 chmod 666
Power removing: - Remove files that start with - or *
rm — “-file”
Print it Man: - Print “man” pages to your local printer
man commandname | col -b | ul -t dumb | lpr
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