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If anyone of you out there are Mac users I am sure you have used quicksilver, and if you are also a geek then I am sure you know your way around a terminal. Now tell me, how awesome would it be to command+space, hit a modifier key, and have a usable terminal. Same way that . takes you into text mode , can take you into terminal mode, or some other key, doesn’t matter. Run command in terminal just doesn’t cut it for me. However something with like 5-10 buffer lines(preferably scrollable) that can appear in seconds and disappear just as quickly would make my flippin day.
I have seen the visor plugin for Terminal.app but it doesn’t quite do it for me. It tends to not take focus so when I hit the key combo and start typing, I just get dinging noises from invalid keystrokes in another application or it actually types that in the other application. Very annoying. My only other gripe with it is that you have to leave Terminal.app running in order to use it. I have an old g4 iBook and every application that is not being used gets quit because my laptop slows down pretty quickly these days. If anyone has done something like this or know of a plugin that will allow me to do this please let me know. And if any of you are quicksilver plugin developers, write this and I will be eternally grateful.
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So yeah, remeber that whole diet thing? I was kind of inbetween jobs, and didn’t get a paycheck for a month. I wasn’t able to diet per se, but I was eating alot of rice(50lb bag for ~$20 at Smart & Final) during that time period. Then I received my first small paycheck, and it was downhill from there. I just didn’t have the time to eat healthy. Nor do I currently have the time to work out at all. I am finally on a regular pay schedule and can actually create a budget(theoretically, in practice … we shall see) that will allow me to eat healthier and have the time to workout.
I know this may seem like a cop out to most people reading this, and I know I shouldn’t be blaming anything else or making excuses, but I am so deal with it :-P You should see that little bar on the right moving along nicely over the next month hopefully!
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With some help from the good folks over at the new 9Rules Notes Section I have discovered a way to make Apple Mail do almost everything I want. And here I will walk you through how to do it because it is a fairly hidden feature aparently.
When adding an account to Mail, it asks for a description of the account, your real name, and your email address. In the email address field you can put in as many comma seperated addresses as you like, and you can pick from any of those when sending out a message. I haven’t had the chance to test it yet but they say that Mail is also pretty smart about choosing the righ From: header based on the To: header of the email you are replying to.
Apple Mail obviously has really good filtering builtin and the smart folders are genius allowing me to have the exact same setup as GMail with everything in the inbox and also in these smart folders, or labels if you will. I am trying to figure out a way to have any read messages automatically archived after a certain period of time, probably 72 hours so that my inbox doesn’t get cluttered, but also so I don’t have to go searching for an email 20 minutes after I have read it.
It is of course very pretty being an Apple application, and fairly quick for being an Apple application as well :-P So here is to you 9Rulers! Thanks a bunch!
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GMail has been getting slower and slower for me over the past few months. I have been dealing with it because I love the features they offer. Thier web based client is nice, albeit a bit slow lately, they allow me to use one account for all the email address’s I have(about 5) and let me send out as those email address’s from the same account. I don’t want to have to deal with 5 different POP connections, or even worse 3 POP connections and 2 IMAP connections, it would get to confusing. I only receive about 6% of my mail at my other email addresses as well, it seems like to much work to go through just to get a few email when they can simply be forwarded. I submit the following list of requirements for a desktop mail client. If anyone know of a client that supports all these features please let me know.
- Quick, no memory/CPU hogs
- Custom From: headers based on what address the email was sent to(automatic preferrably)
- Good filtering - I am on a lot of mailing lists and I like to keep my inbox pretty empty, having to move a bunch of emails to thier respective folders annoys me
- Pretty - not a requirement, but it would be nice
- Standard MUA features(folders, unread counts, spell check, etc)
Back when I used linux as my desktop OS I used an MUA called mutt and it was absolute heaven. It was terminal based, and thus very quick. It was configurable and scriptable to no end. There was nothing I wanted it to do that it couldn’t do. Unfortunately I have since lost my mutt configuration file, which took me initially a day and a half to write, reading through the manual, and months and months of tweaks beyond that. Also being a pure MUA, it does not do any retrieval or sorting of messages. I had a combination of fetchmail, procmail, and ssmtp setup to retrieve all my messages, sort them all out into thier respective folders, and set out emails to the correct smtp server based on who the email was sent from(configured in mutt, not ssmtp). That was all alot of work that I do not wish to replicate again. It was very fun to learn, and if I ever used linux again I would have that same setup, but I tried getting those working on OS X and I just had headache after headache. So if anyone knows of an application for OSX that meets those requirements, please let me know by leaving a comment or contacting me via email.
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With the newest screencast from the TextMate Blog about blogging from TextMate, I pretty much just fell in love with the simplicity of it. By default the plugin will create a blog post using Markdown. Markdown seems like a very interesting markup language. The general goal of this markup language is summed up pretty nicely over at Daring Fireball
Markdown is not a replacement for HTML, or even close to it. Its syntax is very small, corresponding only to a very small subset of HTML tags. The idea is not to create a syntax that makes it easier to insert HTML tags. In my opinion, HTML tags are already easy to insert. The idea for Markdown is to make it easy to read, write, and edit prose. HTML is a publishing format; Markdown is a writing format. Thus, Markdown’s formatting syntax only addresses issues that can be conveyed in plain text.
TextMate has a great Markdown bundle as well for helping you out with writing it. If the idea of blogging from a text editor is appealing to you at all, I would recomend checking out TextMate and the Blogging bundle. I like it because it allows me to write a blog post without having to go to my website. It is also alot easier to compose blog entries to be finished later. I often find myself starting blog posts intending to finish them at a later point, only to forget about them or publish them before they are completed to my liking. It also allows me to blog while offline and publish when I have an internet connection.
The one main thing that has kept me from using an alternative blogging program to publish articles was the inability to tag the posts via UTW at the time of publishing. With the newest version of UTW it has an option to enable inline tags that are removed at publishing. Very cool.
