Posts Tagged ‘Mac’

Simple TO-DO lists for Mac: TaskPaper

October 22nd, 2009

Everyone who’s busy and want to be more organized should use to-do lists. At first my to-do list was my Gmail account, but it did not worked for me (if you use your email as to-do list I would recommend to watch this video: Inbox Zero by Merlin Mann). Then I tried to keep my to-do’s in multiple text files – one file for every project I’m working on, and one file called today.txt whith my most important tasks for today – this was a bit complex system, but was working for me.

taskpaperAnyway, few months ago I found this simple and easy to use application called TaskPaper. I love it! I recommend to try TaskPaper for all of you who feel that you are not 100% happy with you to-do manager.

For Mac users who want an easier way to make lists and stay organized. TaskPaper is a simple to-do list that’s surprisingly adept. Unlike today’s complex organizers, TaskPaper lets you focus on getting things done.

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How to reduce your VirtualBox disk image size

October 4th, 2009

VirtualBox256I use VirtualBox on my Mac when I need to test/use/check something on Windows or Linux. This is very useful application from Sun (and it’s completely free!).

If you use VirtualBox, you’ve probably already seen that the size of the “.vdi” image file can be a lot bigger than disk space actually used in your Virtual Machine. And it grows with time as you use your VM.

There is a solution to that. You can shrink your vdi images to the size that files actually are using inside of them in 3 quick steps:

  1. Launch your VM and defragment the disk.
  2. Zero free space (use sdelete.exe -c on Windows VM, there are tools for other OS’es too)
  3. Compact the vdi file, e.g., on Mac I run such command in Terminal:
    $ VBoxManage modifyhd WindowsXP.vdi –compact

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Nice tutorial – how to setup Apache, PHP & MySQL on a Mac

October 11th, 2008

I recently bought a MacBook Pro and started learning and using MacOS X. At first it was quite wierd but the longer I use it the more I love it! Before this all my life I was a Windows user, I also have tried various other OS’es from time to time just of curiosity (various linux and *bsd distributions) but none of them was so good for me to replace windows, MacOS made it ;) It’s not that I do not like Windows XP – in fact I love it and use it on my old computer – through such a long time of working with Windows I have a really nice buch of various applications that make windows XP computer a very productive tool for me.

Anyway – as I have a Mac now, I wanted to make me a nice setup for web development which I still like to do when I have free time ;) I found this tutorial - it is really easy to understand and I highly recommend it for all people who want to save a lot of time on this task.

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Posted in Mac, Web development

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