Archive for the ‘Code’ Category
Nov 09
2011
This next geeklet is quite similar to the Top CPU Processes geeklet I last shared. It finds the apps and processes with the biggest memory footprint on your system and lists the top 10. The output looks like:
It includes system-level processes, too, so you can see if something other than your running apps is taking up RAM. Keep in mind that RAM is meant to be used, and having it…
Nov 08
2011
I am nearing the end of my first semester as a professor at a small liberal arts college. My graduate school years left me fairly detached from some of the topics I learned in my undergrad years and so I spend a decent amount of time simply re-aquainting myself with material. It is easy to digest the second time around, but as I process the material I also have to think about how…
Nov 06
2011
This one was just for fun. I’m sharing it mostly as a starting point for anyone who wants to dig in and make their own theme for Simplify ($2.99 on the Mac App Store), a music controller for Spotify Desktop and iTunes.
If you want to try it out (and you use the Spotify Desktop client and Simplify), just download the file below and unzip it, then double click the Stained.jacket…
Nov 05
2011
If you read A solution for scatterbrains yesterday, but were left feeling like the solution just wasn’t geeky enough… here’s a Saturday morning post to help you out. You do actually need to read that for this to make any sense. Here, I’ll link it again for you.
To make this a little geekier: if you’re doing this in nvALT, you can right click the note in the…
Nov 04
2011
I’ve been having an issue with the latest version of Growl (1.3.1) where notifications randomly get “stuck.” No amount of clicking and option-clicking will make them go away. Until there’s a fix for this, I’m using a brute force restart to clear them. I have it set up as an alias (killgrowl) in my .bash_profile and as a LaunchBar action (Restart Growl.scpt). It’s a really…
Nov 02
2011
Ok, I made something interesting (to me) last night. It’s probably not worth taking the time to write up, but someday someone might find it and think it useful. I apologize for the messiness of the code, if I take this further and clean it up, I’ll update this post.
I was working on a few text-analysis features for Marked and decided I wanted to be able to show repeated…
Oct 29
2011
Just a quick note here to let you know that Marked 1.3.1 has been approved and is up for sale in the App Store. If you’re not familiar with Marked yet, check out the Marked product site (recently updated!).
Marked 1.3.1 includes a few bugfixes but adds a surprising number of new features for an incremental version bump. See the changelog for a complete list, but here are the…
