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Posts Tagged OSX

Posted
20 May 2008 @ 7pm

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OSX

Disabling spindump on OSX to prevent slowdown after a crash

Update: it’s better to use a spindump script that sleeps, otherwise launchd keeps trying to restart it every ten seconds. Thanks to Steve Ryner for the script. And yes, it’s very simple but here it is :-) #!/bin/sh while true do sleep 60000 done Sometimes when things crash on OSX (biggest offenders: Quicktime, and Safari [...]


Limiting options in UI design: why I like OS X

I’ve been reading Joel on Software’s ui design book, where he makes several astute observations. “But wait!” you say. “It’s important to have options for advanced users who want to tweak their environments!” In reality, it’s not as important as you think. [...] It’s true that the first time they realized you could completely remap [...]


Posted
22 August 2006 @ 11pm

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OSX

OS X productivity tip: dock as taskbar

After converting to Mac from Linux (aah, how refreshing), I’ve been finding cool new ways to make my life easier. First of all, I’m assuming anyone who cares about productivity on a Mac has already installed one of the Launcher products. I personally use Butler. If you’re using these things, you’ll find you’re very rarely [...]


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