The Efficient Mac User (Mar 30th) The slides from my Macworld talk are out in the wild. What’s that in your menu bar? (Mar 31st) A rundown of all of the apps running in my menu bar right now, as pictured in the Efficient Mac User slides.
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There have been some questions about what’s in my menu bar as shown in my Macworld session, The Efficient Mac User (this slide). Here’s the list (all 42 icons). It changes frequently, but this is what was running on the morning I grabbed the screenshot for the slide deck.
macos, macworld, menubar
I’ve posted the slides from my Macworld talk. You can find them at brettterpstra.com/the-efficient-mac-user. You can advance through the slides using arrow keys or spacebar, and if you hover on the left you can jump around in the slides. The presentation includes several video examples which will play on advance.
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I’m taking off from SFO today. I want to thank everyone I got to meet (and sorry to those I didn’t have time to catch up with). A special thanks to everyone who helped pack the room to fire capacity at my talk, it was a lot of fun.
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If you’re headed to Macworld, be sure to swing by for my talk. It’s called The Efficient Mac User and will focus on helping “average” users start being “power” users. CF823 at 4pm on Thursday.
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Dash is my favorite way to reference syntax and info about dozens of programming languages, and one of my most used applications. The developer of Dash recently released “Cheatset”, a way to build your own Cheat Sheets to display in Dash as docsets, complete with indexed commands and categories.
cheaters, cheatsheet, markdown, multimarkdown, ruby, scripting
If you don’t use git and you’re not interested in command line logging, move along, nothing to see here. I promise this won’t go on forever, unlike my PopClip obsession.
doing, git, productivity
I started my project late last week and it’s turned into my “productive procrastination” project. It’s a simple CLI that helps you keep track of what you’re doing and provides a record of what you’ve done.
cli, doing, productivity
This tip from Macworld is a fun one for writers. It’s about how you can manually trigger the autocorrect popup in Cocoa text fields by hitting space after a misspelled word and then moving the caret backward to the edge of the word. After a very short delay, the suggestion popover (only in the most recent versions of OS X) will appear and you can use arrow keys and enter to choose one. Dismiss it with escape. It avoids the entire process of right clicking and choosing a correction from…
keyboard, macos, productivity, quicktip, writing
I lamented on Twitter and App.net that my Dock was no longer respecting “Keep in Dock,” and hadn’t for a while now. It turned out I was far from alone; I heard from a lot of people having the same experience. One friend, Thomas Brand, offered a simple solution: delete the Dock preferences. It stung a bit — it’s the equivalent of “did you try rebooting?” — but it worked and I’m grateful.
macos, solutions, tips
