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Display recursive directory listing in Terminal

Display recursive directory listing in Terminal

by mitch on March 8, 2011 in Geekery, Linux, Mac OS X

Use Tree with Mac OS X to display files and folders in a recursive structure with sub folders and files appearing under their parent directories.

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Quick Tip: Open Finder in current directory from Terminal

by mitch on March 2, 2011 in Mac OS X

Dead simple: open .

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Google Calculator: Decimal to Roman

Google Calculator: Decimal to Roman

by mitch on March 2, 2011 in Geekery, InterWeb

I guess I should not be surprised, but I just discovered Google Calculator converts decimal to roman numerals. Just type something like “721 to roman”, and viola!

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Use Mac OS X Automator and Services To Speed Up Repetitive Tasks

Use Mac OS X Automator and Services To Speed Up Repetitive Tasks

by mitch on February 28, 2011 in Apple, Automation, Geekery, Mac OS X

Automator is one of best kept secrets in Mac OS X. Using Automator to build workflows is simple and takes little time to learn. Services are an effective way to automate repetitive tasks that save time. Make your computer work for you now by creating a few services of your own.

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Blogging from TextMate

Blogging from TextMate

by mitch on May 18, 2010 in Blog Stuff, Geekery

I have reluctantly been using TextMate for a couple weeks. No text editor can ever take the place of Vim, but there are several features that attracted me to TextMate. So far I am impressed, and TM makes editing HTML and CSS a snap. I will write about my experiences when time permits, but for [...]

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5 Web Applications You Can’t Live Without

by mitch on June 5, 2008 in Geekery, Personal Productivity

With ever-increasing amounts of information coming from every direction, and personal and professional lives that are busier than ever, it’s becoming more difficult to manage all the appointments, messages, notes, tasks, and details that are part of every day. If you need a little help, there are lots of well thought out web applications that provide solutions to many of life’s challenges.

Here’s five web applications you can’t live without.

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Nautilus Script: Edit Remote Files (SSH) with Vim

by mitch on September 6, 2007 in Geekery, Gnome, Linux, Programming, Python

My on again, off again love affair with KDE is currently off (but that’s another story). I’m once again enjoying the simplicity of Gnome, and the elegance of Nautilus. The ability to graphically browse remote servers via SSH is great, but I found out that trying to edit a remote file chokes Vim. Apparently the [...]

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Another Serving

by mitch on July 30, 2007 in Blogging, Geekery, Links, Personal Life

We just posted a new episode of the Mormon Potluck podcast. This weekly podcast is created by 4 friends brought together by religion, and a love for all things tech. Each week we talk about life in general, how our Mormon beliefs affect our lives, news, politics, and the technologies we love (or hate).

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Mormon Potluck Podcast

by mitch on June 29, 2007 in Blogging, Geekery, Humor, Personal Life

If you haven’t had a chance to listen yet, you don’t know what you are missing! Episode 2 of the Mormon Potluck Podcast is online now.

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Bash: It’s the little things

by mitch on June 27, 2007 in Geekery, Linux

The Bash shell always amazes me. I needed to create a Maildir using the typical Maildir/cur, Maildir/new, Maildir/tmp structure and stumbled on this: $ mkdir -m 0700 -p Maildir/{cur,new,tmp} The -m and -p options are no-brainers, but the {cur,new,tmp} was new to me. It was easy to figure out what was going to happen… one [...]

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