Software related things, probably focusing on things available for OS X
Sometimes the easiest way of sharing files is to just put them in a open web directory. I came across this very detailed blog post about how to change the looks of an apache directory listing by editing the .htaccess file.
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I haven’t really played much with Automator earlier on, but have found it to be very useful for doing small things that you would otherwise need to write a small shell script or program to do. Here is a screenshot of an Automator workflow which will add today’s date to the name of any file [...]
Read more →I used to use Journler for taking notes on my computer, and when Journler died I moved on to MacJournal. However, nowadays I constantly find myself using different computers (Mac, Windows, Linux) and various mobile devices (iOS and Android) every day, and have found it to be problematic to be locked into an OSX/iOS application [...]
Read more →I have been using Dropbox occasionally over the last few years to sync files (installers, etc.) between multiple computers. I never felt comfortable about using it for things I am working on (and private files), especially since they did not provide any form for encryption of the files. After the Dropbox security problem a couple [...]
Read more →Note to self: You can use ctrl-M to remove the links to URLs in marked cells in an OpenOffice spreadsheet.
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