Posts Tagged ‘Apps’

Essential and non essential apps for my Mac

Sunday, August 22nd, 2010

My hard drive gave up. Now I’ve got a brand new 320 G empty hard drive. Only OS X 10.6 installed. This is a great time to see what I need to make it. These are the apps and docs I’m installing in sequential order (not of importance, but there might be a bit of [...]

7 days of Emacs

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Geoffrey Grosenbach, producer of the PeepCode screencasts gave me some quick advice on how to get started with Emacs (here). Unless I have some really urgent work to get done, for which I’ll surely fire up Textmate, I’ll give Emacs a try. I’m already an every once in while VIM user and remember it was [...]

Try Emacs. Or maybe not.

Monday, March 15th, 2010

On the Nuby on Rails website I came across this post on Emacs. I was in a good mood with my mind full of curiosity and then a thought hit me. “Could it be that I somehow missed the good parts of Emacs?” I remember having used Emacs before, when I was using Ubuntu all [...]

Sticking with LaunchBar

Saturday, December 26th, 2009

To the LaunchBar vs Quicksilver debate I’ve got an answer: I’m sticking with LaunchBar. During the last 3 years I’ve used Quicksilver, LaunchBar 4, Google Quick Search Box and now LaunchBar 5. Right after I got my Mac people started suggesting I use Quicksilver and sure enough I fell in love with it. I had [...]

TaskPaper and the Pomodoro Technique

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

I’ve been practicing the Pomodoro Technique for about 1 month now. It’s been an incredibly useful tool for me. It’s brought about changes on many levels. One of which is the kind of To-Do lists I create. I’ve loved the GTD methodology since I found it 2 years ago. I’ve used many of the most [...]