Tag: Mac

Fumo’s been taking steroids (aka. major update)

  • Firstly, thank you for your feedback. Without all your encouraging comments, constructive criticism and reports, none of this would be possible.
  • Secondly, I’m listening to what you’re asking for. Feel free to speak up and drop me a note.
  • Thirdly, this site has had a dramatic increase in traffic lately. Thank you to everyone who spread the link love or Dugg Fumo.

Your requests

Here’s what you requested for Fumo. All of it is available and working as of today.

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Brian Amerige on Mac development and Flow

Brian Amerige, the developer of the much-anticipated (but still unreleased) FTP / connection client Flow, was kind enough to undertake another interview, this time with a focus on more technical and developmental aspects.

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Fumo still smokes - has non-smoking evil twin

Fumo has since been updated.

With so many people asking, I just can’t procrastinate any longer. You win. Here it is.

It’s most definitely not the finished thing yet. Yes, I have been taking a while. No, there is nothing you can do about it (short of asking for the source and developing it, which you may do by sending me a polite email). Continue Reading Fumo still smokes - has non-smoking evil twin

It all comes together at WWDC

Received via email, 05 April 2007

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Quicksilver: The power of compound commands

I’m sure you are aware of the immense powerhouse that is Quicksilver. From creating folders to resizing images, checking your mail to creating archives, the application makes it a real joy to use a Mac. If you need to get something done, chances are you can do in one keystroke or less using Quicksilver. What’s more, although the interface displays the selectors in a linear fashion, direct object then action (or predicate) then indirect object you’re not restricted to executing commands linearly. It’s entirely possible, even likely, that you’d want to run two, three or more commands at once. Forget frantic clicking, desktops convered with aliases and trying to run ten things simultaneously. Let Quicksilver do it all for you with compounding commands. That means setting it up to run multiple actions at once. Quicksilver power users, jump straight to the new bits.

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Extending Quicksilver’s append to file

A few years ago, Merlin Mann wrote up this great tutorial on how to append a string to a text file from anywhere, a topic which was mentioned again a little later. Quicksilver’s come a long way since then, and many of the limitations present back then no longer apply. Throw in some Proxy Objects, and you’ve got yourself a really big time-saver that can apply to your global workflow.

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