I recently signed up for an account at Jungle disk, http://www.jungledisk.com. I’m paranoid about backups, I use Time Machine to do a full weekly backup and Jungle Disk as an off-site backup solution. It seemed the cheapest option since you only pay for what you upload, and although I have a full 160GB hard drive, [...]
Here’s a nice post on how to clean up macports: http://simenhag.blogspot.com/2008/11/cleaning-up-macports.html I do this cleansing from time to time. Tweet
The latest emacs pretest version (23.0.95) includes EasyPG making it easier to encrypt/decrypt files almost transparently. You just have to C-x C-f a file and C-x C-s and EasyPG takes care of the rest for you. Tweet
I had my Time Machine backup working and I used to do my backs every week or so. After I ran out of space, I bought a new external to use as a backup volume, so I formatted the new hard drive using Disk Utility and set it to use the GUID partition scheme and [...]
Smultron has a nice advanced find and replace feature and it uses ICU as the regular expressions engine. To help you building nice regular expressions for smultron, you can get more information about this engine at http://userguide.icu-project.org/strings/regexp Tweet
I usually use emacs for my normal tex(t)’ing/programming tasks, but I often make use of other simpler text editor to do simpler edits over text files. When using my Macbook, I use Smultron. So far, I think Smultron is an excellent tool for my simple text editing needs. Tweet
Another one for the geeks. I’m preparing some posts about moleskines and pens, meanwhile, I’m writing this post about gpg keys. Gpg keys is an extremely good solution to protect your privacy, here are some links you can use to know more about it. http://www.gnupg.org/ http://www.gnupg.org/gph/en/manual.html http://www.queen.clara.net/pgp/art3.html You can use enigmail, with Mozilla Thunderbird, to [...]
If you have an iPod, this is for you. European iPods (and some from other countries too) have a volume limiter that prevent you from blowing your hears out. But I like to hear my music really loud, so I googled for a solution and I found euPod. After destroying my music library with it, [...]
What an amazing pen. I’ve replaced my dear Uniball Signo 0.5 with this one. Many thanks to the guys at PigPog for pointing me to this one. I’ll talk more about this one when I write Part III of my quest for the right pen for Moleskines. Tweet