Some basic things about growlnotify

(This is also a test of this recipe from ifttt - Tumblr to Dropbox).

Growl fork

If you like Growl and want to use the “old” version (not that from the Mac App Store), you can download the fork version of Growl.

I had some issues with the version from Mac App Store with growlnotify. With the fork version the issues are gone and growlnotify works just fine.

SSH to your Mac using iCloud and Back to My Mac

Via @MOApp.

Rails development environment

I found this link on Pinboard. Very nice script for making a Rails environment. It installs Homebrew, too, among other things.

Sparrow for iPhone

Yes, I’m a big fan of Sparrow. It is my default Mail client on the iMac. And it will the default mail client on the iPhone.

Biggest disadvantage? Push isn’t supported. I hope they will clear the things with Apple to support push.

But for now, Sparrow for iPhone is worth the money.

Federico Viticci wrote a great review.

This is fantastic feature in Carbon Copy Cloner. You can schedule a backup task so that it starts after you replug your (external) backup device. Why is this good? I have an external USB drive that is not connected to my iMac all the time. Instead to worry about not to forget to replug the drive before the scheduled task starts to backup I have to only replug the drive and right after that the task starts to backup. Very clever. I don’t know if SuperDuper has this feature.
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This is fantastic feature in Carbon Copy Cloner. You can schedule a backup task so that it starts after you replug your (external) backup device.

Why is this good?

I have an external USB drive that is not connected to my iMac all the time. Instead to worry about not to forget to replug the drive before the scheduled task starts to backup I have to only replug the drive and right after that the task starts to backup.

Very clever. I don’t know if SuperDuper has this feature.

My top app of 2011

Reeder.

ReadNow.

Wunderlist.

ReadNow

If you want an Instapaper client for Mac, try ReadNow. The version 2.0 is fantastic. Just try it.

Waiting for Apple TV 3

I hope it will have 1080p support. A faster CPU.

Interested in the new bluetooth features.

Safari 5.1.2

Apple today released Safari 5.1.2. Among other fixes it should fix now Safari’s memory management.

I had some troubles with my 27” 5i iMac under Lion. Obviously 4 GB of RAM isn’t enough for Lion. I upgraded to 12 GB. My machine works now smoothly. No hiccups.

wunderlist

I started using wunderlist on both my iMac in iPhone. I miss one big feature: repeating tasks. I really hope we will see this feature soon.

But for now I’m using iCal for repeating tasks - reminders for paying the bills.

About HP’s Thunderbolt rejection

To date I didn’t see any desktop or portable computer having a Firewire 800 port. Or more. That doesn’t mean they don’t exist.

Did you see?

The exception are Macs. Apple was the first to introduce commercial products with Firewire 800.

The next big question is: did Firewire 800 became popular, like, say as USB? Nope. Why not? (Remember, Firewire 800 is quite popular among Mac users, but that doesn’t mean that Firewire 800 is generally popular). Who knows. The answer isn’t important to me because I’m a Mac user who has a Mac with Firewire 800 and who is using it on the daily basis.

Now to HP. They said Thunderbolt isn’t for them.

HP is a big player in the computer world. What means HP’s rejection to Intel and Thunderbolt? Will Thunderbolt become Firewire 800 version 2 in the world of ports? Will Apple stay the only big vendor with clear plans implementing Thunderbolt? We will see.

But again, that doesn’t bother me. When I will buy a new Mac, it will have a (or two or even more) Thunderbolt port(s) and I will using it (them) on the daily basis. I only hope external disks won’t present a bottleneck for Thunderbolt (you know, Thunderbolt is thunder fast - 10 Gb/s, traditional hard disks aren’t; the raising star here are SSDs).

The SSD is the most important performance increase to happen to personal computing in a very long time. And, notably, desktops and laptops use the same SSDs.
iMacs, Mac Pros, and laptops by Marco Arment

Quicksilver is back

I’m very glad that Quicksilver is back. I had it on my Mac all the time even I started using Alfred lately. But since the new version of QS is out, I’m using it again. 

Here the “love” blog for QS. And follow QS on Twitter, the tweets contain really nice tips.

There are some very good blogs. And hackers.

The first hacker I will mention is Brett Terpstra. He is the author of nvALT, a Notational Velocity alternative (yes, I’m using with. With a Simplenote account, you get a fantastic tool for notes).

He is also a big fan of Pinboard (like me). If you want search your Pinboard bookmarks with Spotlight, you must read this post.