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Moving the Dock

So that I don't have to go looking for this again next time, you can move the dock to the left, center, or right (or top, middle, or bottom, if you have it on the left or right side of the screen) using one of the following Terminal commands:

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string start

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string end

defaults write com.apple.dock pinning -string middle

Then restart the Dock for it to take effect:

killall Dock

Update: Bryan's comment made me realize I wasn't really clear on what I was talking about here. Read more »

Cinch & SizeUp

I just want to point out two little utilities that have been making my life much easier for the past week or two.

Window management on the Mac has always been less than perfect: the maximize button never quite does, and on apps like iTunes, it does something else entirely like switch to the mini mode. Read more »

Quicklook for Markdown

OmniFocus vs. Things

I've always been the kind of person that has two or three todo lists going at once. If it doesn't get written down, it doesn't happen. And if I lose a todo list, a whole bunch of things don't happen.

This makes me the perfect candidate for any one of the GTD-style task management apps that have been bandied about lately. I've used both OmniFocus and Things quite extensively, and hopefully this will help other people figure out which one is right for them. Read more »

Quicksilver: Cataloging Issue

Quicksilver is one of the most useful Mac apps available, hands down. I don't even know how to find things on a Mac without it anymore - which makes it distressing when it doesn't work the way I expect it to.

I keep a list of project ideas and things like that at Documents/GTD/Someday.txt under my home directory. Straightforward enough, but I can never remember where it is, and thanks to Quicksilver, I shouldn't need to. Read more »

Software I Was Willing To Pay For

At some point in our lives - let's call it "college" - many of us downloaded illegal copies of software because we didn't have the money to purchase it, or because we needed the money for something else - let's call it "beer." Not that I would do such a thing, of course.

Now that I'm not flat broke, I'm more willing to pay for well-designed software that I find useful, and much less likely to spend a lot of time trying to find and figure out flaky free alternatives, or consider "other" means of acquisition. Read more »

Mac: New Stacks Update

Converting Videos for TakeTV with VisualHub

Closing Firefox Windows on a Mac

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