Editing Bookmarks in Chrome for Mac OS X
I’m a huge fan of Google Chrome for Mac OS X. It’s painfully fast and lightweight (especially when compared to Firefox); however, it’s still very much in beta. One place this has become glaringly obvious is the lack of a bookmark manager.
One way around this limitation is to edit the Bookmarks file located in:
$HOME/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default
Editing configuration files is generally less than ideal, but luckily this one is laid out in a pretty straightforward manner.
1 month ago | Tags: OS X applications tips
Notify (or why I <3 OS X apps)
I love Gmail, I really do, but it can be frustrating to always be tied to a web application. I tried using Fluid to give my email experience more of a desktop-y feel, and I even wrote a nifty userscript to display a Growl notification when you receive a new email. It worked for the most part, but high memory usage rendered the fluid app painful unpleasant to use, and I eventually abandoned the setup all together. Recently, I’ve been using my iPhone as a email notification system, and Gmail lives happily inside Chrome.
That is, until I found Notify. I only installed it a few minutes ago, but my first impressions are extremely positive. It’s a sleek, no-nonsense app, it supports multiple accounts, and Google Apps. The $10 pricetag seems perfectly reasonable, but even better, the free version does just enough to make me happy.
Notify is a perfect example of why I’ve fallen head-over-heals in love with OS X software. The attention to detail is just phenomenal and is present in every part of the application. I mean, just look at the website! It’s this insane quality that make me sometimes wish I could give up this whole web thing and just write kickass Cocoa.
1 month ago | Tags: applications, os x
