Make Time Machine backups bootable
Time Machine is a great backup application shipped with Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard. You can either restore single files in your running OS X or do a full system restore by booting the OS X install DVD. Using the latter method, it would be nice to boot directly from your backup drive [...]
Using WordPress as URL redirection service
Redirection is a WordPress plugin that let’s you add URL redirections to your blog. This is very useful if the addess of some or even all of your blog posts changed. The setup is straight forward: just enter source and target URL and the redirection is set up. The more advanced users can even add redirections [...]
Batch renaming files in shell
Did you ever have to rename a lot of files using a similar pattern? And did you end up sitting in front of Finder or whatever your favorite file manager is and stripped of a certain prefix from the file-name or changed the extension? Well, I did. But as long as you have a terminal [...]
Include website’s title in Tweetie’s bookmarklet
Tweetie is the most hyped twitter client for Mac OS X at the moment. It offers a bookmarklet for simple tweeting of websites opening its quick post dialog and showing the URL. But the usual format of my tweets when posting websites is the title of the page, followed by the URL in parenthesis. So [...]
Using GMail as one and only Inbox
If you’re like me, then you’ve got lots of different mail accounts. As nice as this may be to reduce spam and to always have the right address for any opportunity, as annoying it is when it comes to checking your mail “on the road”. It results in visiting several webmail sites which is really [...]
Manual duplex printing with OSX presets
Duplex printing means printing on both sides of a sheet of paper. There are many printers supporting automatic duplex, so the printer takes care of printing on the front- and on the backside without user interaction. But especially low-cost printers don’t support this very useful feature that not only saves paper but also space. That’s [...]
Faster blog commenting with 1Password
Are you also tired of entering your name, mail adresse and URL of your website every time you want to comment a blog post? Well, I am… But with a little help of the awsome tool 1Password, it’s not more than 2 mouse clicks or one hotkey. Just add a new identity to 1Password, and [...]
Pimp my ZSH
I started using ZSH in favor of good old bash in my OS X terminal. Now I spent some time tweaking the configuration and would like to share the result with you. The zshrc contains a nice prompt, several aliases, useful functions and some modifications of tab completion. You can download the file here.