I’ve been feeling horrible about my lack of posting recently, so this morning I decided to make something to share. It’s an addition to my Lorem Ipsum set of TextExpander tools. I know, again with the Lipsum.
lipsum, snippet, textexpander
For a long time I mistakenly associated CleanMyMac with MacKeeper in my head. The latter is awful, let’s not talk about them. CleanMyMac, on the other hand, has proven to be a powerful — and safe — tool for reclaiming disk space. Version 3 was released today and includes some powerful new features.
appreview, macos, utility
Thanks to Eternal Storms Software — creator of Yoink — for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I’ve been a fan of Matthias’ work for years (back to ‘09!), and I’m excited to have Eternal Storm’s support!
sponsor
I use Terminal (well, iTerm 2) for file management on my Mac more often than I use Finder. Typing out long path names is often more tedious than drilling through Finder folders, though1. I have enough tag-based Spotlight () tools worked out in Bash that traversal in the shell has most of the same conveniences2, but still, some of those paths…
bash, terminal, unix
I’m not mentioning this because I need sales, I really just don’t want anyone to ask me tomorrow if I have any more because they missed this t-shirt run. If you’ve been meaning to grab one of The Lab v2 t-shirts, now’s the time.
apparel, marketing
I mentioned the launch of MeisterTask last week, and I’m pleased to have them join me as a sponsor this week. Thanks to MindMeister for their support!
collaboration, mindmeister, productivity, sponsor
As you may have noticed if you’ve followed this blog lately, I write a lot of Bash functions and aliases. I keep them in distinct files using a plugin system based on bash-it. It works really well, and makes upkeep simple. However, I very often lose track of exactly where I defined a function or alias after a few months go by.
bash, scripting, terminal, where
Blink is an app for people who share links to iTunes and Mac App Store apps and use Apple’s affiliate linking program. It lets you search across the App Store, the Mac App Store, the iTunes Store and the iBooks store, then generate an affiliate link with the result. You can choose a link format: plain url or one of three Markdown formats.
ios, itunes, productivity, writing
MeisterTask was officially announced today. It’s a web-based project management app from the team behind my favorite web-based mind mapping app, MindMeister. MindMeister offers a more visual way to think and collaborate, and MeisterTask continues that vision by turning brainstorms into actions.
mindmeister, productivity
I’m certain there’s a more elegant way to do this, but I couldn’t find it. I needed to sort a Bash array of strings by the length of each element without getting too verbose. Here’s what I came out with:
bash, shell
