I’ve recently been getting into David Allen’s book ”Getting Things Done” and trying to get a good GTD system set up on my Mac. It doesn’t take much looking around to find a plethora of new GTD apps for Mac OS X. Here’s just a few of the apps that I’ve come across. kGTD kGTD seems to be the grandfather…
Looking for the N900? Find out how it’s also better than the iPhone! New article here. All the buzz these days is about the Apple iPhone (not to be confused with the Linksys iPhone). I have to admit, the iPhone is pretty cool, and I was really excited about it for a few hours. Then, reality started to sink in…
While working on a new site today, I was reminded of just how great the Firebug extension for Firefox really is. I used Firebug heavily about 6 months ago for a Ruby on Rails application. I used it mostly for monitoring and debugging my AJAX calls. Firebug has come a long way since then, and when working on new projects,…
The latest generation of Mac applications have really focused on the way an application looks. Developers are creating beautiful user interfaces and slick looking icons that make their apps more pleasing to look at. I appreciate the time and energy that people have put into making their apps look great. Here’s a list of 10 Mac OS X applications with…
The guys over at Ruby Inside are putting together a
Ruby Advent Calendar. The Calendar features a new article about Ruby for each day of Advent.
Following the trend, Err the Blog has put together their own Advent Calendar that’s packed full of useful Rails tips (focusing mostly on ActiveSupport). There are some great gems in there!
A few months ago, I wrote a short article about how to fix the “home” and “end” keys in OS X. I published a step-by-step guide to adding your own custom key bindings via the command line. Many people found this too much of a pain, so I decided to make an easy clickable solution. I wrote a quick shell…
A few days after I got my MacBook, I started to notice how horrible the screen is. I have a grid of diagonal lines that are especially visible in the left corner and on light colored images. Now, I’m noticing distortions on just about anything that has a gradient on it. This screen is just horrible! I thought about sending…
If you’re a website operator or up-and-coming blogger, you may have noticed your bandwidth bills growing larger each month. Fortunately, there’s a very easy way to transparently compress your pages and save bandwidth and download time for you and your visitors. Version 2 of the Apache web server features a module called “mod_deflate”, and if configured correctly, it can dramatically…
I picked up ”Getting Real” from 37Signals back when it was first released as a PDF book. It was well worth the $19 price tag. The book is packed full of useful insights into starting and running your own web business. I’ve recommended the book to several people (you know who you are), but the price kept them from picking…
