January 16, 2016
NOTE: All referenced scripts are available at https://github.com/vdanen/mutt-scripts. I’ve been using OS X on my desktop for a number of years now and unfortunately, the availability of email clients for OS X, while numerous, all stink. I’m coming from a background …
August 14, 2009
GeekTool is a great application for OS X that allows you to display the contents of shell scripts, images, and files directly on the desktop. This page provides some scripts that I have written or adapted from others I’ve found to provide useful information on the desktop …
March 25, 2008
Having a fairly modest household network, without a single Windows machine in the mix, I find it quite irritating that the “defacto” way to share files in OS X is to use Samba. Nothing against Samba, of course, but I only want to use it if I need to share files with …
March 25, 2008
Making an encrypted DMG file (a mountable filesystem that most software for the Mac is distributed with) is extremely simple. The ability to mount these filesystems comes with the OS, using the Disk Copy application. There are many ways of creating an encrypted DMG file in OS X; …
March 25, 2008
Mac OS X comes with a very nice, integrated tool that manages passwords for you. This tool is called Keychain, and anyone who has used OS X, has used Keychain. This is a unique means of storing password information, be it website access or passwords to local programs. Keychain …