Steve: Sir, it's not even turned on yet.
Homer: But it's glowing.
Steve: That like confirms that it's off.
Followed this tip for running 2 Google Notifiers, because I have 2 different Gmail accounts I use.
Then I modified the unread.png and nounread.png icons icons to add a little badge in the corner so I know which icon is for my konigi.com gmail.
Iris is an affordable ($79) image editing application for the Mac.
M Cubed Software's Code Collector Pro for the Mac lets you save and organize your code snippets into a library of taggable records.
The Samson CO1U USB Condenser Mic is an inexpensive USB microphone you can use for podcasting and screencasting. As I understand it, unless the software you're using on the Mac allows you to control audio input, you're going to have a Mono signal in one channel. Some software will allow you to configure the mic for mono input. GarageBand will, for example, so you can get audio in both channels. But I'm using Vara Software's Screenflow, which doesn't yet allow that kind of control of the audio settings in the current version.
To get around this, you need to change your input settings.
- Open Applications > Utilities > Audio Midi Setup.app
- Select your connected Samson C01U mic in the "Properties For:" drop down menu. The "Audio Input" area should refresh to show format options.
- In the Format field, change the channel drop down menu to "1ch-16 bit."
Your audio application show now send mono for both channels.
Minutes is a sweet little dashboard timer. Move an arrow around the dial to set the number of minutes. Keep spinning around for more than 60 minutes. The app displays the clock time for when the alarm will go off. Set the alarm to use one of the included tones or to play an iTunes playlist. Click on it to toggle on/off. Nice.
S3Hub allows you to view your S3 online storage, upload, download, set permissions, share with friends and more.
One of the best things about working at Traction is that the team lives and breathes because of the product—every process is conducted through the software we sell. It's not a matter of eating your own dog food, it's a matter of creating the tool that lets you work the way you want to work.
This is the first in a series of screencasts I'm doing as I'm starting to dive deeper into Traction TeamPage. I expect that I'll spend a little time as an end-user really immersing myself in the product for a while. The end game is to focus the product on ease of use, and simpler interactions that provide access to the most needed features on the surface, while still keeping the expert features within arms reach.
One of the features I recently began to appreciate is the shared folder functionality. This feature provides WebDav access to folders on the server, so you can do version control of documents in your repository. This quick demo shows how to access those documents natively in the Mac OS Finder without having to go to the web interface. It's useful for people who handle files frequently.
The Applescript that's needed to mount the shared folder volume is shown below. This script basically tells the finder to open your server, but with Quicksilver accessing the script, you don't have to first navigate to the finder to get there.
using terms from application "Quicksilver"
on process text share
tell application "Finder"
mount volume "REPLACE WITH YOUR SERVER NAME" & share
end tell
end process text
end using terms from




