January 2011
4 posts
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Quix shortcuts for searching Apple's App Stores
I find myself wanting to find URLs for apps in Apple’s two App Stores (the iOS App Store and the Mac App Store). I have been doing this using a special Google search which limited results to the site “itunes.apple.com” but today I realized I could make it much more specific and avoid some junk in the results (podcasts, music, etc that matched whatever keywords I was searching...
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Download your Twitter posts in Terminal
If you’d like to backup your Twitter posts, you can do that fairly easily, with a few caveats:
You have to install twurl and setup OAuth. This is not difficult (assuming that you’re the kind of command line geek who is likely to read these words) but it will take 10-15 minutes to do the first time. Once you have it installed, you can use twurl for a whole bunch of things on the...
cocktailstraw asked: "My Mac OS is just a little...
What is your opinion / thought process on buying a Snow Leopard upgrade?
Snow Leopard on Amazon is $29.
That said, Mac OS 10.7 (“Lion”) is expected to be out “soon” (summer, maybe, definitely sometime in 2010) and it may be $29 or it may go back to $129.
Personally I think Snow Leopard is worth $30 even if you only get 3 months use out of it before Lion comes out....
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Make 1Password Less Specific
One of my few complaints about 1Password is that when you save a new password, it saves the exact URL that you are at, instead of just the domain name. This can lead to problems and confusion later on.
It’s a good idea to make 1Password less specific. What I mean is more easily shown than explained:
For example, if you changed your password on Twitter, you might end up with something...