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Because the squeaky wheel gets the grease. I love Path Finder by Cocoatech to death. It’s perhaps the best Finder replacement I’ve been able to find yet, perhaps placing Totalfinder in a distant second.

I have a handful of concerns though for the developers, rather suggestions if I may. Please help vote for my suggestions so that maybe they get added. Thanks!

Suggestion 1:

A Hotkey to move between Dual Browser Panes in one Window

Suggestion 2:

Allow for two starting directories for dual browser mode, so you can see two default open windows at once.

As an effort to consolidate blogs, I’ve decided to merge both Heavytext To Redleader.Tumblr together. Although I’ve made a strong effort over the years to keep silly and serious content apart…I’ve realized…I have but so many serious things to say. And as the floodgates were opened once I want to transfer either to Tumblr or to WordPress the mass amount of posts I’ve accrued.

I’ve spent hours searching and have come up with not a single positive result. Although the following have proven useful tools for others…They have both failed for me. Perhaps you, the Internet, may be able to help.

I love science because it never fails to surprise me. The kooks in their labs are always coming up with something or another that’s not a flying car or teleportation device, but that is still quite impressive. So here’s one i have a hard time believing in. There is now an iphone app that helps you lose weight through subliminal messaging. (red rum) I’m giving out a challenge to Lazy Diet users throughout the interwebs..If you’ve tried this give us a shout out or a comment at Heavytext and tell us of your experience, because the claims are kind of outrageous on the face of it all…

That’s possible? Ya! Copyright infringement at it’s finest. So if you have written a book that appears in the Google Books Search…no time like the present to ask for it to be removed.

Binary Head’s - 5 Tools to Download any Book from Google and save it as PDF

For Macs – Google Book Downloader

Free Books – Google Books Free Library

Ahem…Emanuel’s Crunchtime Series are on Google Books

Now to get the obvious out of the way. I understand that my todos aren’t structured in perfect GTD format. Actually, most of the time they’re pretty close. But here’s the problem, currently in ye old Syracuse we are experiencing an awful mid-winter shit storm. I’m allowed to be messy. =)

Second, I’m a law student. It says nothing about my character or fitness that I have to obtain a criminal record tomorrow. I actually do this all the time for people. Third, I’m aware its Helvetica Neue and not the original. And now with the post…

As of recent, I’ve felt inclined to post to the net a variety of tricks I’ve discovered on how to make your computer work for you rather than against you. As much as I love OSX, it has some quirky things to it. Today’s tip is how to merge calendars in iCal. I once tried to be super specific with my calendars keeping specific events in some while others…in others, but ultimately this failed. I’m a fast clicker some would say

Rather than reinvent the wheel I’ll give you a link to a great straight forward post at Mac OSX Tips and a blurb.

(As an aside…going this route allowed me to completely remove MobileMe from my life and save a hundred bucks a year.)

How To Sync Omni Focus with WebDAV for Free: “

OK, here’s the play-by-play to get Omni-Focus to synch automatically between your computer and your phone. Takes ~10 to 15 minutes, plus the time you’ll spend waiting for confirmation emails from a service called ‘swissdisk.’

1. Go to: http://swissdisk.com
2. Sign up for a free account, which is a little hidden. First go to ‘Signup’ in the top menu bar. Then scroll down and click the ‘free 50 megs’ option:

I purchased an Asus EEE 1005HA awhile back and felt inclined to try to install OSX, leopard or snow leopard it doesn’t matter.

It has been a exhausting trying to get this damn thing to run the new OS. Most tutorials out there seem to skip alot of steps for the novice. Below are the best, or at least appear to be the most thorough, I have been able to find. They haven’t worked for me. It never boots!?!

Are there tutorials I can kind of port over for the 1005HA? Like the 1000HE and how if you don’t mind me asking?

I find that ‘stream of consciousness’ really helps in terms of conveying how we truly feel about the things that are on our mind…and scene.

“Ear Muffs”

I fucking hate Typepad. For a paid service they should give me so much more. The real problem behind all this is that I’ve spent too much time that I don’t have trying to fix things on my own to no avail. This weeks problems with the Typepad:

Since my upgrade I’ve been having the worst experience with Quicksilver. I’ve updated as recommended on the compatibility thread on the Google Code page, but it’s awful now.

Launching anything now takes a few seconds for it to even come up and if I use a custom search it’s even worse. That which made Quicksilver my number one go-to app is gone to me. Come back Quickilver =(

I’ve considered changing to other launchers(Video), but I’m having a tough time finding an appropriate replacement. Butler’s learning curve is too high and stressful to start learning. Launchbar doesn’t seem to do enough. And even so goes for Spotlight.

UPDATE: Major Complaint! When you get up to say 400+ feeds it gets ass fuck slow coming off your server. Especially, on Bluehost. I’m not sure what my plan is with them, but it’s not the highest. I don’t really need the bandwidth…no one reads my blog ;( Otherwise I still like it. Thursday; August 27, 2009

For the longest time now the only fathomable approach to handling RSS feed overload has been to preen and prune away our feeds to the essentials. In many cases this syndrome kills the little blogs from ever making an impact on your aggregator. But now we’ve got a real thinker tackling the project. Patent that shit brother! We’ve got the Fever at Heavytext.

I know what you’re thinking…”He doesn’t even post to this blog.” Just give me a second to explain.

Since the dawn of the Internet I’ve been passed dozens of links. From Dancing Bananas to Guys giving Free Hugs, and I, in turn, have sent out my share. But after that first connection and dispersal, I will likely never come across that hilarious Star Wars reference again. These links get lost all the time in your inbox of Chat logs and whenever you actually want to spread the viral media around a little bit..well..you can’t find it.

I was a little inspired by Merlin Mann’s run through of his desktop and thought I might do one of my own. Perhaps in a series of steps. So here is a brief intro to my desktop and the apps I use just on the surface. A way of passive information flow, granted the setup I may have isn’t for everyone, it might be for you with some tweaks.

Some Link Love to get you going: Weatherdock, Icalviewer, Spirited Away, IstatMenu, MenuCalendar Clock.

The gift of Netflix keeps on giving.

My mother spends roughly 60 bucks a month on cable for her weekly tryst with ‘Dancing with the Stars‘ and so she can watch a movie every so often.

In my mind that doesn’t equate to me the 60 dollars, especially in such a penny pinching time.

Solution:

I’ve been wanting to tout how freakin’ awesome my Roku Netflix Playerexperience has been and how valuable the service can be for the penniless movie buff.

An open apology goes to the Songbird Community for looking out for me. You haven’t wronged me. I was foolish to toss aside such a project that so early in its development actually carries a lot of the needs that say…Itunes would do for software user.

- Valuable Extensions -

Apple Keyboard Media Key Support – I may have just lost this extension in the shuffle. The Apple Keyboard Media Key Support Extension seamlessly takes advantage of the Mac keyboard that was a major barrier for me.

I want to share a memory with you. Since the first semester of my first year, this is what my life has looked like. (For the sake of context I just ran up 5 flights of stairs. I’m not built for that sort of athletics. I am out of breath) Let’s look back shall we?