Category Archives: Mac OS X

Swedbank2QIF

By emil | Published: August 4, 2009
I’ve recently picked up an interest in setting up a budget for myself and tracking progress each month. Up until now I have had all the numbers in my head, which after a while, does not scale at all. I would like to use Mint.com, but they only support downloading data directly from (mostly US) [...]
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As simple as possible, but not simpler

By emil | Published: May 26, 2009
A wise man once said that one should “Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler“, something I have seen to be true in many areas of my life recently. I have been a practicioner of David Allen’s GTD method on and off for almost three years now. I have tried all kinds of [...]
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iTunes 8.2 (b7) pre-release crashes

By emil | Published: May 7, 2009
Updated An upgrade to b10 solved my problems! – I have run into a bit of a problem with iTunes 8.2 pre-release. It keeps crashing just a few seconds after startup with a EXC_BAD_ACCESS exception. I googled for answers but the only possible solution I could find was to repair disk permissions which didn’t help. If you have seen [...]
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Going postal

By emil | Published: May 6, 2009
After your computer crashes for the second time of the day and you reboot, the last thing you want to be greeted with when starting the Mail.app is this: This is not the first time Mail.app forgets who I am and where my e-mail is stored. Fortunately I solely use IMAP and thus all messages are safely stored [...]
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A very usable OS X key combo

By emil | Published: May 14, 2008
Found a nice post at Lifehacker today which lists ten things you forgot that you mac can do, and to be frank, I didn't even know it could do this. Highlight any word by selecting it, or simply hover the mouse pointer over it and press Control + Command + D, and a stylish pop-up will [...]
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Härligt med folder actions

By emil | Published: August 28, 2007
Efter mycket velande fram och tillbaka blev det till sist så att jag valde Strongspace.com för säkerhetskopiering. Det startade en scriptfest utan dess like för att jag ville få till något som kunde köras semi-automatiskt så väl som on-demand. Det blev ett enkelt shell-script som kör rsync mot servern. För att fixa den semi-automatiska biten [...]
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Testing MarsEdit

By emil | Published: December 28, 2006
This is just a test of the software MarsEdit. I have searched for a blog posting app for Mac OS X for a while now and this one seems to be a keeper ...
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