Category Archives: osx

Quicksilver + Delicious

January 23, 2007 – 5:28 pm

So, having become a devotee of sorts of the OSX application Quicksilver, I’ve been looking for a few different ways to integrate it into my work flow a little better. I’ve been itching for an excuse to try to train myself to use the Delicious service for retaining bookmarks, but one of the big stumbling [...]

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OSX Terminal Hack - .DS_Store files

November 7, 2006 – 9:33 am

This only prevents .DS_Store files from being written on network shares, but nonetheless, quite handy. In the terminal, enter the following:
defaults write com.apple.desktopservices DSDontWriteNetworkStores true

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Squidman for local proxy plus Adium

November 6, 2006 – 10:05 pm

So my work these days is a bit more locked down than in previous engagements, which makes for some interesting problems. Actually, its not too bad, but unfortunately, some applications don’t play well with location proxy settings. Even Firefox 2.0 doesn’t seem to pick up the proxy settings from your system network prefs, so changing [...]

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