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Scripting my application launch process

Daniel Bachhuber — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 17:16:28 +0000

Every day for work, there’s several applications I always use. The other day, I put together a quick and dirty bash script for opening all of them at once.

I’m terribly inexperienced at this, so don’t poke fun, only offer good suggestions for improvement…

#!/bin/bash

# Open all of the requisite applications
echo 'Opening Chrome'
`open /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/`
echo 'Opening Skype'
`open /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Skype.app/`
echo 'Opening Sparrow'
`open /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Sparrow.app/`
echo 'Opening Linkus'
`open /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Linkinus.app/`
echo 'Opening Adium'
`open /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/Applications/Adium.app/`

ForkLift 2 – The second coming of file management

Daniel Bachhuber — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:49:43 +0000

ForkLift 2 – The second coming of file management. Apparently faster than Cyberduck. Trying it out.

Switching back to Remember The Milk from The Hit List

Daniel Bachhuber — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 19:07:22 +0000

Switching back to Remember The Milk from The Hit List. The latter just has too many bugs and interface quirks for my liking.

Fixing Growl notifications in v1.3

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 02:37:18 +0000

For one reason or another, upgrading Growl to v1.3 causes all sorts of mayhem. Growl v1.3 is a new, paid application that’s different software from the previous preference pane. The only instruction I saw when I upgraded was to run the uninstaller for the preference pane. After a bit of trial and error, I discovered there’s a couple more steps you’ll most likely need to do to get things working properly again.

First, download and open Growl Version Detective. You’ll see something like this:

Select each application Growl supports and upgrade the framework version to 1.3. Notifications should start working again.

Second, if you use Skype, you need to tell Skype to use Growl instead of its internal notifications system:

The second step finally quells unstoppable notifications of contacts signing in and out of Skype.

Adobe CS4 and CS3 Free Trials (incl. After Effects)

Daniel Bachhuber — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 01:22:40 +0000

Adobe CS4 and CS3 Free Trials (incl. After Effects). Because some of us still have the licenses we purchased years ago, and Adobe only offers CS5 (which requires Adobe AIR, ick) from their website.

Photo

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:47:35 +0000

This is every application I’ve opened today.

Status

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:07:54 +0000

Dropbox + MobileMe means my new computer is up and running in under an hour.

Status

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 14:32:56 +0000

An avid Remember The Milk user since 2007, I’m trying Potion Factory’s The Hit List today after seeing it in action by Andrew Spittle yesterday. It looks positively gorgeous.

Rdio and my changing music habits

Daniel Bachhuber — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:19:16 +0000

Rdio and my changing music habits. Andrew Spittle and I are starting a Rdio fan club, I swear.

BaseApp

Daniel Bachhuber — Tue, 17 May 2011 16:19:28 +0000

BaseApp. Basecamp notifications in your Mac OS X menubar. Wish it supported personal tasks and milestones too.