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Total Finder review

dennis — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:01:50 +0000

TotalFinder by Binaryage, is a plugin to the Apple Finder and adds Tabs, Side-by-Side Finder windows and convenient access (key driven) to Finder in any application.

I found TotalFinder in the MU Promo bundle and didn’t need the other software, so I grabbed it from the dev’s site. I use Finder a lot and will be making good use of the tabbed windows. The key access driven “visor” as it is called makes Finder available all the time with a press of a keyboard key. TF is compatible with OSX Lion. It may not seem like a necessity, but once you use TotalFinder, you will wonder how you got along without it.

Bundles galore

dennis — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 13:49:05 +0000

It’s the season of Mac Bundles or so it would seem. MacUpdate has a 12 Mac app bundle for $49 featuring: TechTool Pro 6, TotalFinder, Postbox3, FontPack Pro Master, Labels & Addresses, MacDVDRipper Pro3, Back in Focus, Hear, iClip 5, Folder Synchronizer, and NeverWinter Nights 2.

My thoughts: TechTool may be worth it alone, but PostBox3 isn’t different enough for me from Mail to change. TotalFinder was buggy under Snow Leopard and hopefully is better now. I already own MacDVD Ripper and find it useful. Back in Focus looks interesting (and feedback is good), but never heard of it prior to this deal. I have no use for iClip 5 since I use Keyboard Maestro for clippings. Hear didn’t sound good to me using my Bose speakers, but on MacBook Air speakers showed improvement. The rest of the bundle seems okay if you don’t have those apps. Your mileage may vary.

Gmail Notifer x 2!

dennis — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:02:24 +0000

Here is a great article from 2008 that runs multiple Gmail Notifier apps for multiple Gmail accounts on OS X. I’m even using it on one regular Gmail account and one Google Apps account!

Journler-the new way to get organized?

dennis — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:43:44 +0000

Lately I have been trying to get organized since it is summer and I have a little more time to do so. In a recent post on TUAW there was a discussion about cleaning up the clutter, (of which I have both digital and analog, i.e. my house).

So I went and grabbed Journler since the discussion on TUAW went that way. I’m still trying to put my finger on how to make it work for me. So far I can get stuff in and find it pretty quick, but I haven’t really tested it to it’s full capacity. It is donationware and if the software proves to be what it seems to be promising, then it may be worth donating, which I will do!

More in the next few days while I press it to the limit of it’s capability

Testing TextMate

dennis — Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:30:40 +0000

So far I have been using TextMate in an attempt to make my life easier and more efficient on the Mac.

It is overwhelming at first an not everything is where you think it is, for example, the preferences appear slim, but there is a lot to customize if you want to. I really enjoy the themes and the downloadable themes make colorizing the windows easy. There are many plugins and you need to get familiar with Subversion to install the plugins (called Bundles). It is one of those “wares” that need time to work on you, time to get settled into your routine and then it will be indispensable, I’m sure of that.

Line numbering (a necessity) is in the gutter area and not in the actual text file as some editors do, color coding via themes (mentioned above) is fabulous and VERY customizable.

TextMate can be setup to work with your blog to post and edit entries within TextMate. It costs about $50 US and will most likely end up in my “Mac toolbox”.