Posts published by: Chris Jones

Thoughts on a modular Mac Pro

There have been some rumours recently that the next iteration of the Mac Pro is going to be modular, but we have had very little information about how this modularity might be expressed. In some ways the current Mac Pro is already quite modular - at least compared to every other …

Alfred 2 clipboard history

The toweringly awesome Alfred 2 app for OS X has a great clipboard history browser. This is how I suggest you configure and use it:

  • Map a hotkey to the viewer (I suggest making it something involving the letter V, since Cmd-V is a normal Paste. I use Cmd-Shift-Option-Ctrl V …

Terminator 0.97 released!

The present:

It's been a very long road since Terminator 0.96 back in September 2011, but I'm very happy to announce that Terminator 0.97 was released over breakfast this morning. There's a reasonable amount of change, but almost all of it is bug fixes and translations. Here is …

Some more awesome Alfred 2 workflows

I keep finding super handy little things to do with Alfred 2 and so I thought I'd post some more:

  • Alleyoop - updates installed plugins (if the workflow author supports it, which many currently do not).  I hope this will be a temporary workaround until a centralised workflow repository is created …

Alfred 2 workflows

Since I started using OS X as my primary desktop, I've loved Spotlight for launching apps and finding files. I resisted trying any of the replacement apps, for fear of the bottomless pit of customisation that they seemed to offer. With the very recent release of Alfred 2, I was …

LCD and a crazy disk chassis

If you saw my recent post on some preparatory work I'd been doing for the arrival of an LCD status panel for my HP Microserver, it's probably no surprise that there is now a post talking about its arrival :)

Rather than just waste the 5.25" bay behind the LCD …

Funky lcd4linux python module

I've got an LCD on the way, to put in my fileserver and show some status/health info. Rather than wait for the thing to arrive I've gone ahead and started making the config I want with lcd4linux. Since the LCD I'm getting is only 20 characters wide and 4 …