Like a damn fool true fanboy I installed Apple’s Snow Leopard the day it came out. Sure, it was faster, and I liked the polishes they made to the user experience. But it broke a lot of things that made it possible for me to develop web sites on my laptop: MySQL, all my Perl [...]
I’m really liking the new Mac OS after using it for three days now. Improvements include: the transparent menu bar, the Finder’s Quick Look and Cover Flow, Safari’s improvements, enhanced Spotlight, Spaces, and even the moving backgrounds in iChat and Photo Booth. It’s not noticeably faster or slower than the previous OS (10.4/Tiger). *Finder* With [...]
So after trying out a bunch of different GTD apps, I’ve gone back to using “Thinking Rock”:1 as it’s the closest fit to how I imagine a GTD app should work. I can enter to-do items by project, then view them by date or by context. Thinking Rock automatically saves my actions periodically and backs [...]
MacZOT.com Fans want Pzizz because ‘According to the National Sleep Foundation, sleep deprivation and its effect on work performance may be costing U.S. employers some $18 billion each year in lost productivity. Another study pushes this cost to over $100 billion.’ – _link to full article_
A few months ago I noticed that Mail’s search was broken, because searches within “Entire Message” always turned up nothing, altho searching Subject, From or To seemed to be working fine. After a little detective work I found out that Mail.app uses Spotlight when searching Entire Message, so maybe Spotlight wasn’t indexing the mail folders? [...]