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Automatically sync files across Macs via iCloud

admin — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:56:21 +0000

Did you know that you can sync any document between your Macs by using a little trick?

In fact, every document you put in the ~/Library/Mobile Documents folder will get synced through iCloud.

read the whole story here MacOSXHints.com

Private Eye – Check who’s phoning home

admin — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:44:02 +0000

There are a miryad of possibilities to check what connections are active on your Mac.

Rubbernet, Little Snitch and Dtrace (for the unafraid) are only two of them…

Now there is a new small and free tool called Private Eye that sort of formats the Dtrace output in a nice way,

so you can verify strange outgoing or incoming connections.

You can download it here – everyone should have this on his Mac…

SparkleShare – Your private Dropbox on OSX

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:12:23 +0000

Yesterday I came across a promising new project called SparkleShare.

SparkleShare is some sort of a Dropbox clone that allows you to use GIT repositories on your server.

This means that your data can be stored on your private server!

The project is still in its very early stages and the setup is a bit complicated.

But I somehow managed to get it to work on my Macs at home.

Here is how I did it:

Preparation

Download GIT from here
Download SparkleShare from here

Install the server

Install GIT on the server

Create an empty GIT container

> cd (to make sure you are in your home folder)

> git init –bare TEST.git

Install the client

Install GIT on the client
Install SparkleShare
try to ssh into the server

>ssh YOURNAME@MY.SERVER.COM

If this does not connect you have to find out why first,
this is the very basics to make this work.

Create the SSH keys

> ssh-keygen

> scp .ssh/id_rsa.pub YOURNAME@MY.SERVER.COM:TEMP_rsa.pub

SSH into your server

> ssh YOURNAME@MY.SERVER.COM

> cat TEMP_rsa.pub >> .ssh/authorized_keys

Check git install on the server – try to run

> ssh YOURNAME@MY.SERVER.COM git-upload-pack –help

If you get:

> usage: git upload-pack [--strict] [--timeout=nn]

you’re OK

If you get:

> git-upload-pack: command not found

you have to create a symlink to the git executables for “non-interactive shell login”

> cd /usr/bin/
>sudo ln -s /usr/local/git/bin/git* .

retry the above command

you can also try the following (even though it did not work for me)
> export PATH=$PATH:”/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/git/bin”

Now launch SparkleShare Enter your name and e-mail, click next.

Server Type:
“My own Server”

Address:
YOURNAME@MY.SERVER.COM

Folder Name:
/Users/YOURNAME/TEST.git

Click Sync

General remarks:

YOURNAME: this is the username on your Mac (Server Side!)

MY.SERVER.COM: this is the name of the server (can be internal, like server.local or URL)

Web Development Tools for Macs

admin — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:15:47 +0000

Have a look at this very complete overview of tools for the Mac based Webdeveloper.

I’m personally using a bunch of those like:

Coda
Smultron
Flow
Espresso
MAMP
Pixelmator
Transmit
PHPMyAdmin

but who knows, you might find some new inspiration…
I certainly did

Add New Multi-Touch Gestures To Any iPad For Only $4.99

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:40:16 +0000

Cult of Mac explains how to enable Multi-Touch Gestures on your iPad by simply buying XCode from the AppStore.
I have tested this and it works as advertised.

Find the full explanation here.

teleport: multiple Macs – one keyboard

admin — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 09:34:44 +0000

teleport lets you use a single mouse and keyboard to control several Macs.
It’s a bit like Synergy that some users might know from the Windows world.

Download here.

App of the week: Caliander

admin — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 07:49:26 +0000

Trying out Caliander, a new way to view your appointments ahead and I must say, I quite like it.
No hassle to set-up as it uses the iCal database, so great sync with Google Calendar (follow the instructions here for easy set-up of sync between iCal and GCal)

Caliander on the Mac App Store

Finally UltraEdit comes to Mac OS X

admin — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 09:06:56 +0000

via TUAW

Apple offers free books to iOS developpers

admin — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 08:26:04 +0000

Apple just put six free books online about iOS programming.

You’ll need the new iBooks 1.2 as they contain inline images.
Grab them while you can in the iBookstore by searching for “apple developer”

Enjoy…

Mac-based AirPlay

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:12:07 +0000

I decided to figure out a way that people who didn’t own an Apple TV, or who were on the road with their iPhone and a laptop could actually use AirPlay streaming “backwards” — from their iDevice to their Mac.

via http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/14/hacksugar-mac-based-airplay-service-allows-device-to-mac-playba/

App of the Week: Together

admin — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 15:37:29 +0000

I have been searching for a while to find the ultimate solution that covered (almost) all the needs for my document workflow.
At home as for work I come across a lot of information (web pages, PDFs, photos, text snippets, mails, …) that I need to keep somewhere for archiving and later access.
I had tried them all (Rucksack, DEVONThink (which came in close second), …)

But only Together gave me the flexibility I need:

You can store all different types of content I need (Rich Text, PDF, Images, WebArchives, …)
Bookmarklets to easily archive a web page as PDF, WebArchive or bookmark
The files are stored in a folder structure which makes it possible to
Synchronize with Dropbox for access from anywhere (think iPad, iPhone) and synchronization of the Libraries across several machines (MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, iMac)

I have even been able to configure my old scanner so that it add a PDF of the scan to Together by simply pressing on a button on the scanner (now that’s some nifty workflow…)
The search functionality is not as nice as in DEVONThink, but works fine and I wish they would finally build a native iPhone/iPad app.

It’s not cheap at $39 but until now it was worth every penny.
You can grab a trial version at Reinvented Software