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Lately I’ve been doing file system work in cocoa and I was using NSFileManager, but that quickly got out of hand as NSFileManager is lacking in regards to symbolic links. So, I factored out the often used code and created a class which uses FSRefs internally. However, I’ve since had a problem: I don’t […]

For while now, I’ve been dissatisfied with Mac OS X backup apps. There are too many apps that claim to backup, when all they do is sync. In my book synching and backing up are two different things, yet the market is filled with shareware apps that synch. The apps that do perform incremental backups […]

There is a cool article at MacDevCenter on writing Spotlight plugins. While it’s great that 3rd party developers are writing spotlight plugins, I do have a few qualms with some recently released plugins. For example, the OmniGraffle spotlight plugin includes an attribute called Number of Shapes. How is this ever going to be of use? […]

What a steal deal, $7 for a whole year of hosting over at Dreamhost. When it took my old host, Hostcentric, over a week to rebuild and restore the server that my website was on I decided it was time to switch. Based off of a friends recommendation, I signed up with Dreamhost and I’ve […]

On the local machine run this (when it asks for a passphrase just hit return):
ssh-keygen -t rsa

Copy the newly created file from the local machine to the remote machine and append the key to the correct file:
scp ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub remotemachine:~/.ssh/new_key
ssh remotemachine
cat ~/.ssh/new_key >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys
rm ~/.ssh/new_key

Right now I am running:

Safari
Xcode
Terminal
Thunderbird
Adium
NetNewsWire
iTunes
OmniGraffle
ecto
Textmate
InterfaceBuilder
Quicksilver

What apps are you running?