Utility Room

Updated to Wordpress. Please see the new location for this blog.

..or how to avoid RSI with this great piece of software: AntiRSI.

Your window (or the last tab) in Safari won't close? If you're like me, you installed SIMBL and Taboo while still using Safari 2 and forgot all about it.

Tired of getting your Documents folder full of Application specific stuff (that should be placed elsewhere!)? You've deleted the folders but they just keep coming back? Don't worry, there's another way.

Earlier I posted a tip how to clean up your Documents folder by moving Microsoft User Data elsewhere. This tip is more generic and you can use it, for instance, to get rid of Adobe's Updater folder.

Read about it on David Airey's blog.

Here's a standard view on Mail.app (OS X 10.5).

If the selected message on your message listing (showing header info, number 1 in the image) does not show up below (number 2), but instead Mail.app shows an another message, your index may have gone bad.

Do you use three columns on your site? Or on sites you design or build? Andy thinks it's bad design.

This tip uses AppleScript and shell script to create an AppleScript application that launches an ssh secured Screen Sharing (VNC client/server, introduced in OS X 10.5) to your remote machine.

Tried BitTorrent, Tomato Torrent and Transmission. I chose Transmission because it was lighter than BitTorrent and supported drag-n-drops of web page links which Tomato didn't do.