I’m not sure why, but it warms my heart to see an update to Paparazzi!. This has long been a useful tool and I had assumed that it would eventually die off. The latest version came out yesterday with the usual Mountain Lion goodies. appreview, apps, productivity

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I keep my Dock very trim. The only apps that have a permanent home there are apps that I either have to have running all day, or apps that I choose to have running all day. However, I don’t make them launch items. Booting up can be slow enough without trying to launch five heavy apps at the same time that everything else is loading. macos, scripting, terminal

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I use the Growl Extra in a lot of my scripts to offer notifications while they run in the background. It works great, and still works with Mountain Lion, but I have a thing for system integration and new shiny. growl, macos, ruby, scripting

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While my uses for it may be unconventional, I’m a fan of Day One for journaling and logging on Mac and iPhone/iPad1. I’ve been beta testing new versions for both and am excited to announce they’re finally available! apps, dayone, giveaway, ios, macos

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Episode 3 of my podcast, Systematic, is up on 5by5 now. I was ill and trying to get one in before I lost my voice (which I did), but the cold medicine left me a wee bit scattered. Hopefully my edits pulled the coherent parts together… podcast, systematic

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Via a post on OneThingWell, I discovered a new Ruby library and accompanying CLI called terminal-notifier. It allows you to quickly interface with Mountain Lion’s Notification Center from the command line. will be available as part of the filesystem-watching tool Kicker, but you can put it to use as a general notification system for Terminal right now. cli, macos, ruby, terminal

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Ok, I told the world and myself (in a podcast you haven’t heard yet1) that I wouldn’t admit to putting time into this, but… I kinda like it. Given that you’ll probably need it at least once at some point, I might as well share it and save you the time. scripting, spotlight, terminal

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The GeekTool Weather and Forecast script has been updated to handle multiple languages and with a system that allows for more languages to be added easily. It comes with Spanish, German, Dutch, Japanese and French. geeklet, geektool, nerdtool

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Mountain Lion moves “web sharing” out of the System Preferences interface (and into Mountain Lion Server), and disables Apache by default. Now that there’s no button to click to turn it on, you have to do things yourself. I’ve seen some of this posted in a few places, but this serves as a note-to-self. macos, webdesign

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Here we go again with the automated work logging. I decided I wanted to keep a record of my public Github gists in my log as well, with descriptions and links. I use gists a lot these days and they’re a good indicator of some of the things I’ve been working on outside of my git repositories (which are logged separately). dayone, logging, scripting

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