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Bookmarks for May 1 – 20, 2012

Bookmarks for April 2012

Bookmarks for March 2012

Bookmarks for February 2012

  • Apple OS/X Messages App: Disable Automatic Chat Logging – I never liked how chat/messaging apps like to clutter your hard drive with logs of the minor chats you might have had with someone. Unfortunately, the Apple Messages beta is missing the option to disable automatic logging of all chats. Fortunately, this tip seems to work on disabling that feature anyway.

Bookmarks for January 2012

How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos

I just published my first post on the Redfin Developers’ blog: How Not To Have To Right-Click a Hundred Photos.

And, no, don’t worry.  I’m not switching back to the light side from the PM dark side.  I just had to work some old muscles again.

 

Cleaning Up Behind Skitch

I’ve gotten hooked on Skitch, a screen capture application that was bought byEvernote recently.  It’s been a handy addition to my day-to-day toolset.

However, there was one thing about the Mac version of Skitch that drove me nuts:  it saved copies of every screen grab in my Pictures folder (and there’s currently no way archive or delete them automatically.  This means that my Pictures folder was getting literred with random screengrabs that I didn’t need anymore.

Since it wasn’t looking like that feature was coming any time soon, I decided to work around it.  I wrote a short Applescript app that cleans up the history folder when run. It moves any images older than 3 days to a “HoldForDelete” folder and it deletes any files in the “HoldForDelete” folder that are older than 7 days.  (Feel free to edit the timeframes if you want something different.).

I’ve uploaded the app in case anyone else wants to use it.  I just run it on a preset schedule so that it’s constantly cleaning out that folder.

Download:  CleanOutSkitchHistoryFolder.app.zip (27kb)

If you run into bugs or issues with the app, please let me know.  I’ll try to fix it if I can.  Let me know if you use it too; that’ll motivate me to do more of this!)

Bookmarks for December 4th

  • Plex Media Center & Server for OS X, iOS, Roku – I discovered Plex today and, so far, couldn't be happier with it. You run a server on one machine and then any computer, iPhone, iPad or Roku can access any of the TV, movie and music files from that server.

Bookmarks for November 3rd

  • How to Read Body Language to Reveal the Underlying Truth in Almost Any Situation – “In this post, we’re going to take a look at three common situations in which non-verbal cues are especially important—detecting lies, going on a date, and interviewing for a job—then explain how to interpret body language more accurately so that you can read between the lines when a person’s words aren’t necessarily conveying the way that they honestly feel.”
  • How to Enable Multitasking Gestures and Display Mirroring on the iPad 1 (Without Jailbreaking)- Haven’t tried this yet, but I have wanted mirroring for Airplay on my iPad. Maybe I’ll give it a shot.”This hack comes from a user called d.B. in the modmyi forums, who modified the jailbreaking tool redsn0w to do just one thing: Enable multitouch gestures and mirroring. Despite what the app says, no jailbreaking is actually happening. redsn0w is just tweaking a few settings on your iPad so gestures and mirroring are enabled.”

Bookmarks for September 12th through October 23rd