Filosync beta
Have you ever wanted to benefit from using a service like Dropbox for easy and accessible cloud storage without handing over your unprotected data to a third party? Filosync gives you a lot of the...
View ArticleExifMeta for Lightroom: Harvesting your Camera’s Metadata
One of the reasons I’ve been using Lightroom 5 for editing photos lately is due to a plugin created by Rob Cole. Aperture and Lightroom both lack a trivial way to access the ocean of metadata inside of...
View Articlef.lux: software to make your life better
f.lux adjusts your display based on time of day to avoid getting too much of the wrong light spectrum. Using an ultra-bright cool temperature display late at night not only disrupts sleep patterns, but...
View Articlethe Dropbox Carousel
Dropbox Carousel is a neat service and all, but when it comes to presentation, Don Draper did it much better.
View ArticleResearch Workflows and Tips (Primarily Oriented at Academics)
Liz recently had a conversation going on Facebook where some academic workflows came up. This is the sort of thing I love to read and then run my mouth about, particularly about software and methods of...
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blessed in ascii
Using ascii/ansi art (hey-oh!) with a little javascript, you too can create beautiful CLI dashboards. star and/or fork @yaronn/blessed-contrib
View ArticleWorkflow for iOS
This is amazing. Being able to hack together quick actions that can be configured and used as any normal iOS action is pretty great all by itself, but then I saw the “execute via SSH” workflow and...
View ArticleSCSM
My life would be so much better if we used System Center Service Manager. No-one Ever
View ArticleFantastical 2 for Mac (Beautiful Pixels Review)
I love Fantastical for iOS and the new Fantastical 2 for OS X somewhat ironically manages to gracefully bring the small-screen experience of Fantastical to OS X terms. Calendar and Reminders on OS X...
View ArticleLightroom CC or GTFO
In late 2013, Lightroom 5 was $149, I paid ~$80 for Edu pricing. Lightroom 6 will probably have similar Edu pricing (but I’ll be damned if I could find out how to buy it anywhere). This time around,...
View ArticleMumble as an ad-hoc Whole-House Intercom
So I strung up an improvised whole-house intercom with an old iPhone, an iPad, and my computer downstairs. Careful tuning on the voice activation and amplitude versus SNR settings will result in a...
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One-Handed QWERTY via Karabiner
I’ve posted a gist of a config for Karabiner that will allow your keyboard to act as if it were a USD$595 Matias Half Keyboard. I didn’t whip up the original config, I include a pointer to the...
View ArticleiTerm 3 Test Builds & Shell Integration
They had me at: When shell integration is enabled, iTerm2 automatically adds a mark at each command prompt. Marks are indicated visually by a small blue triangle in the left margin. You can navigate...
View ArticleFilesystem ACLs on OS X are Tedious
I had to manuver about 800GB of research databases (I use DEVONthink Pro Office) from one zfs filesystem to another because at some point after OS X Server got ahold of my Research volume the...
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