recent applications window

This little snippet will give you a new little window for all those recent applications you launch – I seem to have picked up a habit for closing applications down when I stop working with them for an hour or two (pages etc.)


defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add \
'{ "tile-data" = { "list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile"; }'
killall Dock

rss browsing on macos

Hmm, so far in the last month or so I’ve been slowly running into issues with Mail.App just deciding not to download/refresh RSS feeds until I explicitly tell it to (which is annoying to say the least). So first had a play with Endo which is pretty good – apart from the annoyance that I have enough busy RSS feeds (blogs.sun.com and java.sun.com for instance) that the only real way to keep on top is to use Apple + 9 to only show unread posts.

The does have the little drawback that I then lose sight of the ones I’ve tagged – and it is a global option across all groups – yuck. So having just exported my feed list into OPML and then imported into NetNewsWire and it just worked (also looks a lot more like a mail client which i prefer)

Will have to see how it goes . . .

has the leopard got new spots

Well I was such a little fanboi that I’ve got leopard installed, things that I’m interested in:-

* RSS reader in mail
* spaces
* calendar App showing todays date

Things they didn’t mention which i think are good:-

* Tabbed terminal windows! Apple+T for a new one, Apple+}|{ to move between tabs

Aside from that, the coverflow-esque viewer to finder is quite nice – and pretty quick too. Admittedly, zfs is there – but no zpool create yet :( Think i’ll have to get the developer kit for that one.