After running giveaways for Yoink and ScreenFloat from Eternal Storms, it seems only fitting that I include a third app of their’s 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
Overtired episode 3 came out yesterday evening, and you were probably watching fireworks while Christina and I were talking about them. ‘Merica, soccer, home entertainment and my obsession with solving tagging problems (and Christina’s obsessive backups). It was a good time.
overtired, podcast
This won’t affect too many people, but if you’ve installed the GNU Coreutils, you should be aware that the and commands strip extended attributes from your files. If you do any tagging in Mavericks (or with OpenMeta), you’ll find your tags disappearing after shell scripts or command line filing act on a file.
macos, scripting, tagfiler, tagging, terminal
I’ve been a Nozbe subscriber for years now, and I’m pleased to have them as a sponsor this week. Founder Michael Sliwinski is truly passionate about productivity, and it shows in all of his products.
Sponsor: WatchMeCode (Jun 26th) A huge thanks to WatchMeCode for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. Derick is a great programmer doing a fantastic job of sharing his knowledge. If you want to learn JavaScript (and Node.js), this is a great place to start. Minority Report setup: video evidence (Jun 27th) This was a video followup to my report on my futuristic combination treadmill desk and LEAP motion controller. Overtired Episode 2: Attack Of The Phones (Jun 27th) We made it to…
recap, video
Don’t get me wrong, I love mind mapping on my Mac and iPad with native apps. iThoughts, iThoughtsX, MindNode and Curio are all things I get excited about. However, I’ve been spending a ton of time in MindMeister (a web app) lately.
mindmapping, mindmeister, productivity
There’s probably an existing tool to do this, but I couldn’t find it this morning. I have some very long README files on GitHub and I wanted a simple Table of Contents for them. I’m too lazy to break most of them up into wikis, so I needed a way to emulate the tag found in the Gollum wiki platform that GitHub has.
github, markdown, scripting, service, tagging
