growl - calling it from the command line or via code…

Here’s how to run growl from the command line - handy!

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070602201030683

Reduce Word load times on MacOSX

Turning off WYSIWYG font and style menus has greatly reduced my Word startup times. To do so, go to Word » Preferences (or press Command-,). In the General section, deselect WYSIWYG font and style menus — it’s third from the bottom. Voil� ! Faster Word

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20070517130132331

Word sometimes doesn’t launch on Intel Macs…

The problem: Some PowerPC applications (such as Word) sometimes fail to launch on Intel Macs.

One solution: There is a root process called translated which seems to be launched with PowerPC programs. If this process is killed, then the application can be launched with no troubles. Note that an administrator password is required. translated can be found by opening up the Activity Monitor. Select the process and click on Quit Process.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=2006080308222881

Running a MacBook with the laptop display off

In a nutshell, here’s how to run a MacBook with just an external display:

1. With your MacBook on and running, plug in your external monitor and turn it on
2. Make sure the MacBook display is in mirror mode.
3. Close your MacBook. The whole system (including external display will go to sleep).
4. Plug a USB device into the MacBook (e.g. your mouse) to bring it out of sleep
5. Open up your MacBook. The display will be off.

Remove Automator actions from Finder contextual menu

Two ways:

1. Via a Terminal
Go to ~/Library/Workflow/Applications/Finder/ and delete the workflows from there.

2. From Finder:
Click on the ‘House’ icon in the sidebar to get to your user account.
Then click on:

• Library
• Workflow
• Applications
• Finder

Delete the workflows from there

TextMate - text editor for MacOSX

Pretty neat tool - would use it over BBEdit anyday…
http://macromates.com/

With PHP Code completion:
http://aralbalkan.com/822

and with PHP documentation:
http://techfoolery.com/archives/2006/09/21/2314/?PHPSESSID=9c01f6348304cd99203025b41f061890

Computerworld - 15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X

 According to Computerworld here are “15 Things Apple Should Change in Mac OS X”.

Note that users have emailed in and suggested work-arounds or fixes for most of these - which is handy!

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9006104&pageNumber=1

SnatchEm Widget

SnatchEm - awesomely handy widget for the Mac. You point it at a URL and it downloads all files available on that page. From the maker:

A Mac OS X Dashboard Widget that used the XMLHttpRequest object in JavaScript to download the source, Regular Expressions to find the file references and the terminal program Curl, built in to BSD and OS X, to download the individual files.

http://www.jaij.net/project.php?id=87

MacOSX tips 1

http://www.macworld.com/2004/10/secrets/novmacosxhints/index.php

How to post from your desktop to WordPress

MacOSX widget to post to your WordPress or blojsom weblog…

http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/blogs_forums/rapidmetablog.html

and
http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/can-i-post-from-outside-wordpresscom/