Contemplating the brave new present
Posted in Tips on Jun 22nd, 2008
Textmate is a superb text/code editor for the Mac that makes extensive use of keyboard shortcuts to make your life easier.
One of the most important shortcuts in Textmate is Control-Escape, which opens a “Gear” menu with important context-sensitive functions. However, if you turn on the Screen Sharing or Remote Management features of your Mac, you [...]
If you need to compile or run Java programs from the command line, it can be a real hassle to identify all the jar libraries the program requires and include them in your classpath.
Here is a short script that will do this work for you on Unix, Linux or Mac systems. It finds all [...]
Posted in Tips on Mar 13th, 2008
Gmail has a nasty bug (or quirk) that I have only just discovered. It explains why I sometimes have trouble searching for specific emails in my archive. To use Gmail effectively you will need to know about this bug, and how to avoid it.
Background
In Gmail, messages are automatically grouped together into a conversation based on [...]
Posted in Tips on Feb 29th, 2008
I have been using Google Apps – Google’s set of hosted email and collaboration tools that are available from your own domain name – for some time now. The service works very well but it has one annoying drawback: many of Google’s other services and tools do not recognise your Google Apps identity. To log [...]