Monthly Archives: September 2011

WTF is that user ‘wu’ doing in my Windows 7?

When running Windows 7 briefly yesterday I noticed a new user in Mac OS X under the ‘shared’ list in Finder, user ‘wu’ apparently a guest user under my Windows 7 that runs as a Parallels VM. Today, after much … Continue reading

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Mirror, Mirror in Your Brain, Can You Help the Computer Explain?

  by Glenn Fleishman <glenn@tidbits.com> For many years, I have tried to understand how otherwise smart people, including professionals who synthesize massive amounts of information in their day-to-day work, cannot seem to master a desktop user interface. In contrast, many of these … Continue reading

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Use AirDrop on any Mac with Lion

http://www.macworld.com/article/162407/article.html

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Mac OS X Keyboard Symbols

http://guides.macrumors.com/Keyboard_shortcuts http://www.osxkeyboardshortcuts.com/keyboard-symbols.html All content is © Copyright by Dean Pirera – 2011    

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Applescript – function to select from menus easily

menu_click({“Mail”, “File”, “Save”}) menu_click({“Mail”, “File”, “Close”}) tell application “Mail” set x to every message of mailbox “[Gmail]/Drafts” of account “Ian’s Mail” set msgIn to first message of mailbox “[Gmail]/Drafts” of account “Ian’s Mail” tell msgIn set src to it‘s source … Continue reading

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Demystifying Mail.app Plugins on Leopard – Tales from the Loonybin

http://eaganj.free.fr/weblog/?post/2009/07/14/Demystifying-Mail.app-Plugins-on-Leopard

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TextMate PATH for finding commands eg multimarkdown

TextMate Preferences->Advanced->Shell Variables->PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin

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MultiMarkdown Syntax Guide

https://github.com/fletcher/MultiMarkdown/wiki/MultiMarkdown-Syntax-Guide

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Time Machine Backup exclusions – 9 Sep 2011

My extra exclusions are: Apple defined exclusions are in: /System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist StdExclusionsLion[9Sep11].pdf

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