This is for all you F12 invoking Dashboarders out there: Did you know you can take the Dashboard icon in the dock and drag it off? It goes poof, just like any other dock icon. Dashboard doesn’t stop running, this just frees up its slot in the dock.

Over in the forums, rooSwitch Lite user, brokosz asked if there was a way to switch iTunes without rooSwitch trying to switch the contents of ~/Music/iTunes. At first I didn’t quite get the request, but after some clarification and now that I’ve played with this a little I see it’s quite powerful. What’s going on […]

I’ve got a number of secret pages that display things like sales data and download stats. My pages were ugly. As a fan of mint, I decided to see what would be involved in turning these ugly pages into private, roobasoft peppers (one “sales” pepper, one “downloads” pepper). Turns out, it’s quite easy (Kudo’s to […]

rooSwitch Lite shipped with a disk image that was created using FileStorm. Previously I was using DropDMG, which is great, but I wanted something that let me use a background and position 128×128 icons on it. FileStorm was pretty easy to navigate with the UI, but I wanted to have this scripted. I had a […]

I’ve been using Hazel since I learned about it the week of WWDC. Hazel introduces itself as Hazel is your personal housekeeper. Set up rules for any folder that could use some organizing and cleaning. Hazel does its work automatically and quietly in the background letting you focus on the your real tasks. I have Hazel doing […]

Up until recently I had been using a poor man’s FeedBurner. I wanted to use FeedBurner, but requiring a change to my feed URL wasn’t attractive. Enter WordPress FeedBurner Plugin. This is a slick plugin that uses apache’s mod_rewrite to allow you to use FeedBurner without handing out a new feed URL. The plugin is super friendly […]

I previously mentioned that I store all my receipts on my iDisk with a naming style of: yyyy_mm_dd_NAME_OF_FILE.pdf To get the PDF on to the iDisk I had to say, Print, then “Save as PDF…” and I would manually give it the name with the date prefixed and fumble my way over to iDisk/Documents. This morning […]

I’m addicted to Gus‘ Menu Accelerator. I no longer fumble through menu’s looking for what I want. I just start typing. It’s beautiful. The only problem was that it wasn’t a Universal Binary. I’m not sure if Input Managers work through rosetta or not, but even if they did, I […]

My family (immediate family + both my mother and my mother in-law) was eating dinner in the Burlington Mall last night in Burlington, MA. Near the end of the meal, our seven month old daughter was getting cranky and needed to be walked. Knowing Apple recently blessed this mall with it’s presence I […]

My day is typically broken up into three distinct blocks of time. These include my day job, my family and then my time for roobasoft. The tricky part is finding enough time and minimizing overlap. Here’s what I’ve found that works for me: 1) Go to work. 2) Come home, eat with the family […]