Setting Up Mac OS X
It was time for a periodic update to my setting up a Mac post.
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“ In Mac OS X, you vote with your Dock.”
— Michael Lopp (2003) introducing an interview with Brent Simmons
Erm, So...
Dr. Drang’s script to clean telephone numbers for web forms just needs a bit on the end to play nice with Alfred:
pbpaste | tr -dc '[:digit:]' | pbcopy
So…. You’re Welcome.
Alfred wins Macworld Award
Alfred has been tabbed for a Macworld Annual Editors’ Choice Award.
It’s a good app. Certainly the only launcher that I have ever stuck with. I was hesitant to start using it after spending some hours around this time last year building an AppleScript launcher for Seth. But it’s way better than my little duct tape and string thing. If nothing else, it makes me feel more productive. Quicksilver never made me feel anything but bamboozled. And Alfred gets Dropbox syncing right too.
Highly recommended.
A List to LaTeX Itemized List
Seth wanted an AppleScript for BBEdit that would turn a list into a LaTeX Itemized List.
tell application "BBEdit"
remove prefix selection of project window 1 prefix "\item "
add prefix selection of project window 1 prefix "\item "
set selection to "\begin{itemize} \r" & selection & "\r\end{itemize}" as text
end tell
Spelled Rihgt, No Wrong
TextEdit’s contextual menu presents an option to unlearn words that you’ve asked OS X to learn. Useful.
“ The marvel of the iPad is not that it can replace a Mac. It’s that it opened the door to all sorts of things that a Mac was never all that good for.”
— John Gruber
Hold ⌘ and Press "P" Twice
MacSparky details how to make a really useful keyboard shortcut for printing to PDF in OS X (via Seth).
Do not Assume
Timely advice from John Gruber on upgrading Mac OS X.
Are You Preparing for John Siracusa's Review of OS X Lion?
There are two kinds of people in the world, those appreciate John Siracusa as a Noam Chomsky for the Apple nerd herd and those who have never heard of John Siracusa.
See also the quotable John Siracusa at Siracusa said so.
