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Minimizing Distractions on Your Mac

Thursday, August 13, 2009 ~ 2:47 pm

So this little blog popped up a couple of weeks ago called Minimal Mac. Yeah, yeah Macs are minimal; we all know that right? Steve Jobs hates buttons, blah blah blah. Ok, but how about when you're using them day to day?

As we've become more involved in the community I've been finding myself more and more distracted as of late. I'm trying to work, but there's a new RSS feed I need to read. Or a new email that just came in. Twitter just never stops. Ever. …

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Syncing Your Sent Mail on Your Computer and iPhone

Thursday, July 17, 2008 ~ 8:57 am

iPhone Sent MailI’ve had my e-mail synced up between my iPhone and Mac for a while now, but for some reason I could never get my sent mail to sync. I mus have missed the boat on this one because it’s actually not that hard, and I’ve found that Leopard makes it less panic-inducing (I’ll explain later).

So when I knew I was getting an iPhone around last November, I went ahead and changed my 47m mail to an IMAP

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Mac OS X Leopard ExpressionEngine Folder Icon

Thursday, March 27, 2008 ~ 10:27 am

Icon in Coverflow

Here’s a little goodie for you ExpressionEngine developers on Leopard. A pretty folder icon to put all your plugins, modules, extensions, etc… in.

Quick rundown for those who don’t know how to change folder icons:

Get info1. Select the folder who’s icon you want to change.

2. Right Click and select “Get Info” or press “Command - I.”

3. Select the eeicon folder and do the same.


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A Few Thoughts on my AppleTV

Friday, March 21, 2008 ~ 1:54 pm

AppleTV

So the other night the wife and I were at the Apple store looking for Time Capsules for 47m. Happened to see the new AppleTV setup while we were there, and the HD movies looked incredible. I mean, jaw droppingly good. Yeah, I know BlueRay is better, but seeing Transformers in “almost” HD compared to the standard def movies I was used to; I was hooked. No more trips to Blockbuster, I nudged the wife (Gently nudged, of …

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BestChristianDesign is helping give churches inspiration for their next project. Good call, guys.

Seth Godin reminds us to enjoy and take advantage of the uphills.

Stop announcing your new project. Just do it.

Rock and Roll people, Rock and Roll.

To all you staff designers out there, here’s a link for you. (via @ryanlascano)

Fascinating look into the music business.

Derek Sivers posts some great advice about balancing your life.

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