I just was cleaning up my Applications folder and opened up Yojimbo, which I had stopped using once I realized I had DEVONthink Personal. It alerted me to the fact that my trial time had expired and had the usual options - buy a license, enter license information or quit.
What caught my eye, though, is that it also offered the option to export the data it had - so that if I needed to, I could quit and still have access to the data through another software package… rather than holding my data hostage.
So, while I don’t need Yojimbo, I’ll certainly keep Bare Bones Software towards the top of the list for other packages I might want.
I had an a-ha moment today. I’ve been dabbling a little in Applescript - I had a need for a timestamp, so I wrote a small script that would create one and dump it into the clipboard. I set it to trigger off CMD-1 via Quicksilver, and now, if I do CMD-1, CMD-V I get a nice little time and date stamp pasted wherever the cursor is.
Then I started thinking. For work, every week I copy a bunch of files from where I work on them out to a shared folder on the network, then send an email to management saying “hey, they’re updated.” I then attach them to an email to send to one manager who doesn’t have access to the networked folder. I realized today that the entire process could be automated via Automator, linked to a Quicksilver trigger and *poof* the whole thing would be done.
This is the kind of stuff I was looking forward to doing on the Mac that I couldn’t do as easily on the Windows side.
This is a pretty interesting site - pick a station in your area and it lists what they’ve played, so you can finally get that song that the DJ didn’t backannounce… which is my single biggest annoyance with some stations, and one of the reasons I switched to iPod for most of my in-car listening. Some stations already do this on their website, but it’s nice to have a single stop to find that information, assuming your area is well served… mine (Worcester) is, with 50 stations.
Yes.com [from Lifehacker.com]
CommonCensus Map Project - Maps
An interesting project to show where people think they are (for lack of a better way of putting it). An interesting way to look at the influence of cities.
I did get a new toy this weekend. For the past two years, I’ve had a Sony Ericsson T637 cell phone. It worked okay but because I keep my phone in my pocket (I walk into too many walls and doors to keep a cell phone on my belt), the control stick in the center got all gummed up with pocket lint. So now I have a Samsung D307 phone. So far, I like it - I like having a keyboard as well as a dial pad, it’s a good size and I don’t feel like I have to try to keep it partway between my ear and my mouth when I use it. I do have a few issues with it - I can’t get files to transfer to it via Bluetooth (although I’ve been working with Samsung on it and if I could stay on the phone with them for long enough, I’m sure we’d reoslve the problem) and I would have liked it to have been able to sync with Outlook out of the box. But overall, I’m happy with it.
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