Organise your desktop

Organise your desktop

Ben asks me to post this cracking desktop wallpaper. There’s a blank one, should you wish to try it yourself.

ITunes dead tracks

I was pleased to see that the equivalent of AppleScripts still work on Windows: I used the Find Dead Tracks javascript file to find the dead tracks in my albums (tracks with an exclamation mark next to them that you can’t play). The iTunes Folder Watch...

Read Mac disk on PC

If you have a Mac disk (HFS+ formatted in my case) and want to copy files from it onto a PC, you can using hfsexplorer. Hint: I needed to run it as Administrator on Windows 7 for it to autodetect my Mac USB disk. It then worked liked clockwork.

Mercurial source control

Important to get a handle on the new way of doing source control. Why? a) I am loving the Unix command line geeky loveliness that means all its commands begin with Hg and b) Joel thinks it is important and has explained it very effectively. Fogcreek does a free...

Google Apps Script

Visual Basic (well, JavaScript) for Google Apps. Neat. Allows you to automate repetitive stuff in Google Apps and to create custom functions. Groupbills, here we come.