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 a whole lot of sense sitting there. That’s where Dockless comes in. With Dockless, any OS X application can be made to show in the Dock or not.
Download dockless here
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 the Outlook Web Access, which in Exchange 2010 is kind of nice, or you can install a program called DavMail. DavMail acts as a proxy between your computer and the corporate Exchange server.
Some really nice features in DavMail:
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!
A couple of months ago I found this litte app that checks all the disks on my Mac for any errors.
SMARTReporter is a free application for Mac OS X that can warn you of some hard disk drive failures before they actually happen! It does so by periodically polling the S.M.A.R.T. status of your hard disk drive. S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology) is a technology built into most modern hard disk drives that acts as an “early warning system” for pending hard disk drive problems. SMARTReporter can notify you of impending hard disk drive failures by sending e-mails, displaying a warning dialog or executing an application. The current status of your hard disk drives is always displayed through the customizable menu item.
Because SMARTReporter relies on the S.M.A.R.T. implementation of Mac OS X, it only supports ATA, SATA or eSATA hard disk drives, if you want S.M.A.R.T. support for your SCSI or FireWire hard disk drive, send feedback to Apple.
Please note that a S.M.A.R.T. alert doesn’t mean that your HDD will completely fail for sure, nor can S.M.A.R.T. catch all possible HDD errors – it’s just a very valuable indicator. Follow this link for more information about S.M.A.R.T. technology.
About What’s Keeping Me?
Have you ever have the problem where you can’t empty the Trash or eject a disk because something is preventing you? Usually the reason is because some application has a file open, and thus you can’t get rid of the disk or trash the file. That’s why we made What’s Keeping Me! What’s Keeping Me will identify the application that is holding the item open. You can then use What’s Keeping Me to quit the problem application (or kill it if needed) so you can perform your task. What’s Keeping Me includes an Automator workflow so you can perform searches directly from the Finder too!
A while ago I came across a small app that does one thing great; It keeps my USB- and network-drives clean of the hidden files that Mac OS X adds in the background. Spotlight files etc. This is a killer feature when you work in a mixed Windows/Mac environment.
Simply put, it saves me a lot of moaning from colleagues after I borrow their thumb-drives!
The easiest way to keep your disks and file servers clean of Mac “dust”. BlueHarvest automatically removes DS_Store and ._ AppleDouble files (resource forks) from your USB keys, SD cards and file servers, etc. BlueHarvest removes these items as they’re created so you’ll always be “dust” free.
Yesterday I bought HazeOver and I really like it when I’m working on my MacBook Pro. But I only use it when I use the built-in monitor..
HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites.
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
This plug-in is an absolute must-have.
Download it here.
Yesterday I stumbled across this neat app and great post on Switching To Mac.
One of the great features most modern operating systems offer, and Mac OS X is no exception, is the ability to create a zip archive out of most any document or folder from the Desktop. Simply right-click the item you want to archive, and choose the Compress option from the contextual menu.
There is a problem, however, when Mac users create a zip archive in this manner, then share that archive with users of Windows or Linux. The issue is that there are extra files Mac OS X uses, files that track custom icons and icon placement, that are hidden from Mac users.