Archive for the 'Mac OS X' Category



The state of email

Email has struck a cord with many prominent Mac bloggers:

No suitable email apps for Mac OS X
The Rise of the OS
It could work: a 3rd party email client for OS X
The Rise Of The OS
The state of Mac email
Daring Fireball
Regarding Mail Pro
Free advice about a pro email client
Dear Apple, we want MailKit
Restarting Innovation
Michael Tsai: Restarting […]

E-mail clients are interesting in that it’s a somewhat religious decision, comparable to choosing a text editor or operating system; everyone has an opinion and their own feature that’s always a deal breaker. I’ve used quite a few clients, and I’ve never been happy with the IMAP implementations, atleast with regards to Mac e-mail clients, […]

Pasteboard Server hangup

Today I had a weird problem where copying and pasting stopped working. Since I really dislike restarting, I messed around and found a solution:
Run this in the Terminal:

ps -x | grep “/System/Library/CoreServices/pb[s]”

I got a result like this, if you don’t get any results skip the next step:

20829 p0- SN 0:00.28 […]

Due to the way Spotlight is designed, it is very difficult to index monolithic databases, as in all the data stored in one file. Spotlight works by monitoring the file system for modifications, like a file being created or a file being saved. When a file system event occurs, Spotlight identifies the type of file […]

Most people probably aren’t going to care about this, but I want to share this so no one else has to go through the same pain. A few things are fairly hackish, but hey, it works. Much thanks goes to Nicholas Riley in helping me figure this out.

Download the cyrus-sasl tarball from http://asg.web.cmu.edu/sasl/sasl-library.html

The newest version […]

Why I love TextMate

TextMate is about the coolest editor ever made, and one especially cool feature is the ability to have snippets. I recorded myself using some built in snippets and a forall snippet, just watch it you’ll love it. Oh, and I know the example is kinda weird, I just made it up.
TextMate Snippets Video