Logitech G5 Laser mouse on Mac OS X (updated)
I recently bought Logitech’s G5 Laser mouse. It’s meant to be a gamer mouse but is also great for daily work. The only problem for us OSX users is that Logitech in contrast to most of its devices doesn’t offer drivers. The mouse works just fine out of the box without any proprietary driver, but [...]
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 [...]
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.