Overtired Episode 5 just came out today, too. It was a rip-roaring-ride of a conversation with Christina, ranging from movie stars to Bigfoot to the Mac App Store. I’m enjoying doing this podcast and hope that it strikes a chord with a wide audience. Thanks for listening, everybody! Check out the Overtired #5 at 5by5! You may also want to follow @ovrtrd on Twitter as we start to kick that into gear.
overtired, podcast, systematic
I recently reviewed Polymo, a new iPhone camera app, for The Unofficial Apple Weblog. It handily lets you tag photos before you start shooting, making organizing your camera roll easier than ever.
appstore, giveaway, iphone
Sponsor: PDFpen 6 (Jul 10th) Thanks again to Smile and PDFpen 6 for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this last week. Be sure to check out the new Microsoft® Word export, tools for faster workflows, Retina graphics, autosave and document versions! TagBak, tag backup and restore (Jul 11th) After posting a bit ago about losing OS X tags, I put together a tool for backing up and restoring tag data from the command line or scripts. If you want to make sure your tags aren’t lost during…
recap, tools
The Bash command is pretty good with tab completion (though not as good as Z shell). I often want to complete a path like , though, and get caught up on directories such as , which I never need to get to through Terminal. There’s an easy way to ignore those pesky directories, though, using the variable.
quicktip, terminal
If you won and haven’t heard from the Giveaway Robot (and have checked your spam folder), drop me a line. If you didn’t win, be sure to check out Transloader and its companion iOS app. While you’re at it, don’t miss Yoink and ScreenFloat, more great utilities from Eternal Storms.
giveaway, ios, macos
I mentioned a few days ago that there were a few ways to lose your tags in OS X. I began working on the best solution I could come up with for now: TagBak.
backup, ruby, scripting, tagbak, tagging
Sponsor: Nozbe (Jul 3rd) A big thank-you to Nozbe for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. The new beta release of this cross-platform productivity app is definitely worth checking out! How to lose your tags (Jul 4th) After discovering some missing tags on my files, I’ve begun a list of services and tools that can cause tag loss. Overtired 3 - Firecracker Fourth of July (Jul 5th) Episode 3 of my new podcast with Christina Warren! bookmark-cli: OS X bookmark data for…
recap
After running giveaways for Yoink and ScreenFloat from Eternal Storms, it seems only fitting that I include a third app of theirs in the giveaway lineup.
appstore, giveaway, ios, macos
I’ve been working on a simple solution for backing up and restoring OS X tags after catastrophes. Ultimately this is going to have to be more than a script, but I have most of the pieces in place. As part of the experiment I wanted to be able to handle files being renamed and moved. That’s best handled by the file bookmarking portions of the Cocoa API, so I wrote a little CLI to capture and restore bookmark data for a file or folder.
cli, macos, tagging
