I am a massive fan of evernote, it's one of those applications that I can't do without. I type all my notes into it, scan everything into the application, I basically have it open all of the time.
I like to ensure that every note is filed into the relvant notebooks and more importantly that every note is tagged. Occasionly I will file a note a way without tagging it, and then trying to find them again is a pain. However there is a very simple way...
Recently I was asked if there was a way you can find out what is preventing a mac from sleeping, my friends MacBook had stopped going to sleep. I told him to use the pmset command. Pmset is a way you can read and change many of your power management settings for your device.
On this occasion if you use the -g flag it shows you the current settings, this is from my machine below.
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I have already placed a few tips up about Chrome, this latest feature I really like. By looking at the Task Manager for chrome, you can see what resources a page is using, if you think that a certain site is causing your browser to perform badly, you can see exactly what resources it is using and from there you can kill the window/tab.
On the Mac version of Chrome you can get to this from the Window Menu, from there you can select Task Manager.
I have many PuTTY sessions on my main work PC. I need to ensure I have all the sessions available for my support laptop at home, also I need them in case I am carrying aroung my small netbook and I need to connect to work. I use the script below to make a copy of the PuTTY registry key to both my local PC hard drive and to my dropbox folder so I can access them from any machine.
It's a very simple batch file, please feel free to copy and distribute the script.
I have been using chrome for a while now on my netbook, and to be honest I am very impressed.
I am always keen to use keyboard shortcuts to avoid the small little trackpad as much as I can. So I have listed a couple here which I use frequently. I am sure there are many more, so please feel free to comment to add your favourites..............
Just recently I have been reviewing several sites and storing the bookmarks as I went, I have been keeping them in a seperate review folder. I had noticed that XMarks was not running, when I had started it up, it flagged there was a problem with syncing and that it would carry out a download. While doing this it had not synced my recent bookmarks I had added on the machine, so once it had completed the download I managed to lose my recent bookmarks.
This is a very simple tip that I like to do every couple of months to speed up the opening times of iPhoto. Everytime I carry this out I notice a significant improvement. I also do this when I upload a large number of photos like I have just done after my holiday.
Before you click on the iPhoto icon then hold down the option (alt) and the command keys (cmd), for new mac users they look like......
An example on how you can show the available drives you have on your PC from the command line....
A tip on how you could possibly reclaim some space on your machine....
A quick and easy way to close down multiple growl notifications, this is helpful if you are ever faced with the screen I just had.....
If you use 1password you should save your keychain to dropbox.
Did you know you can use the camera connection kit to connect your phone to your iPad to browse/import your pictures?