Jacob Kaplan-Moss: osx

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Mac OS X SSD tweaks | nullVision:blogs

Good notes on optimizing OS X to make the most efficient use of SSDs.

mxcl's homebrew at masterbrew - GitHub

Looks like a perfect middle ground between the Scylla of MacPorts/Fink and the Charybdis of building everything by hand. Next OSX box I set up is going to use homebrew.

(mac, osx, software, sysadmin)

Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001 might break your Perl (CPAN)

Apple fucked up Perl in the 2009-001 security update. Way to go, guys.

(apple, cpan, fail, mac, osx, perl, update)

tunnelblick - Google Code

Super-simple OpenVPN client for Mac OS X. Just throw OpenVPN configs in ~/Library/openvpn and then connect with the menubar item. Awesome.

(mac, openvpn, osx, software, via:mccurdy, vpn)

Mock It!: An lxml you can bank on

Finally! easy_install staticlxml and done.

(eggs, lxml, mac, osx, python)

Use Tabs in Textmate for Files Opened Via Transmit by Stuart Colville

Brilliant little hack. The (lack of) Transmit/Textmate integration is theo nly part of my workflow I hate; this fixes it.

(mac, osx, textmate, tips, transmit)

Angry-Fly.com: Getting MySQL Preference Pane To Work In Leopard

(leopard, mysql, osx)

X.5 Time Machine (Quarter Life Crisis)

An amazingly in-depth look at how Time Machine works.

(backup, osx, timemachine)

Secrets: index

Brilliant - a preference pane for “secret” system settings that anyone can contribute to.

(hacks, mac, macosx, osx, preferences)

C4[1] Morel: Virtualization Vivisection

A great talk by Shawn Morel of VMWare about the tech behind VMWare Fusion. Good stuff.

(kernel, osx, video, virtualization, vmware)

Vara Software : ScreenFlow

Really hot-looking screen capture/screencast software. $100, but probably worth it for anyone who does a bunch of screencasts.

(mac, osx, screencast, software, tools, video)

InstallationOSXLeopard - IPython

Finally, a working readline for Leopard: “easy_install -f http://ipython.scipy.org/dist/ readline”

(osx, python, readline)

macosxhints.com - 10.4: Combine PDFs without using Automator

Man, OSX ships with all sorts of gems.

(osx, pdf, python)

macosxhints.com - 10.5: Get rid of the translucent menu bar

Yay!

(leopard, mac, menubar, osx)

Mac Forums - View Single Post - No Airdisk (Airport) Time Machine Backups!

Gotta try this when I get home.

(apple, backup, leopard, mac, osx, timemachine, via:simonw)

A text-based GTD-ish todo app. I'm pretty torn between this an OmniFocus, which is strange given how different in philosophy they are. I'll probably end up using TaskPaper if only for the really simple text format.

(gtd, mac, osx, software, todo)

Apple Bits

Scroll to the bottom for extractkeychain.py, a quick script to dump keychain passwords to plaintext (you *are* piping that into GPG/OpenSSL, right?)

(keychain, osx, python)

Password Manager + AutoFill for Mac OS X

I think I've found a nearly perfect password manager.

(authentication, browser, osx, passwords, security)

AppFresh - All Software Updates for your Mac in One Place

A sane, centralized third-party software updater for Mac OS X. I'm baffled that Apple doesn't provide this as a system service…

(apple, apps, download, mac, osx, softwareupdate)

Welcome | PostgreSQL for Mac | Andy Satori

Very well-done Postgres Mac packages; they Just Work (and even correctly set up pg_config so that extensions build correctly out of the box). My new Best Way of installing PG on a Mac.

(mac, osx, postgresql)