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Dockless hides apps from the dock

I’ve been using a small app called dockless. Dockless hides the icon from the dock…that’s all. But it does it great and it’s free. Dockless is a little app that does what some people have always wanted – remove certain applications from their dock. Dock real estate can become precious, and some apps don’t make [...]

DavMail is a Exchange to IMAP CalDav proxy

Snow Leopard and Mac OS X Lion both have built in support for Exchange 2007 and 2010. But what do you do if your company is running Exchange 2003 or if you want to run IMAP (And your company only permits a “Outlook Anyware”-type setup, IMAP over HTTPS). Well you can either stick to running [...]

Marked.app

This is just a great app if you write in MultiMarkdown. Marked shows a preview of your markdown files. Simple and great! Get it in the App Store!

How to install Huawei e173 on Mac OS Lion

I live in Sweden and bought a Huawei e173 from the Swedish operator Telia. The only problem is that the 3G modem came with drivers and software for Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6). To start off, I installed the modem on a windows machine and disabled the PIN-code on the simcard. I personally get [...]

I just remapped my Caps Lock to open nvALT

I just remapped the Caps Lock key since I’m not using it! In my case I want it to open nvALT for really fast note-taking. Source: How To Turn Caps Lock Into A Search Key On Your Mac, Redux

How to force TotalTerminal to always display on top of the dock

I have been using TotalTerminal for a while now. But since the latest 1.1.1 the visor is displayed under the dock. (I have my dock on the left side of my screen) This is both annoying and renders the TotalTerminal useless. This is all due to a bug fix in 1.1.1. There is a way [...]

I’m creating a Mac OS X USB boot drive, just in case

So I’ve decided to make a USB boot drive with lion just in case of my MacBook Pro HDD decides to die on me.. Fired up Disk Utility, created a Mac OS X partition on the thumbdrive  and restored the lion dmg (InstallESD.dmg) to the drive. Source: Creating a bootable OS X 10.7 Lion disc [...]

Ejecting USB drives takes two tries with CleanMyMac

Some time ago I found that when I tried to eject any external drives  from my Mac it always failed on the first try, but succeeded on the second. This is very annoying, as I’m using alfred to speed up pretty much every command on my Mac. So basically I had to type “eje” (the [...]