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My essential web applications and iPhone apps

Tue, 18 Sep 2018 09:27:00 +0100

This is part three of a series of posts about the software and tools I find invaluable. See Part 1: essential applications and Part 2: Visual Studio tools. In this post I’m covering the online applications and iPhone apps I find indispensable.

Gmail

Does the job.

Lastpass

Everyone needs a password manager.

Pinboard (and the PinSwift iPhone app)

The best bookmark tracking tool. Simple, fast, powerful. The best mobile app for it is PinSwift.

My essential applications

Fri, 07 Sep 2018 15:23:00 +0100

This is the first in a series of posts where I list the applications that I use and enjoy the most. See part 2 and part 3.

A bit of preamble, my most powerful machine is a Windows-only desktop with lots of RAM and an SSD drive. I use it almost exclusively for development.

I also have a Macbook Pro which is configured to dual-boot Windows and MacOS. The Windows machine is more or less a mirror of my main development machine. The Mac is where I do all my document editing, Word, blogging, etc. I also use it for my occasional forays in to iPhone development or other non-Windows experiments.

Macbook and the mysterious sleep

Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:46:00 +0100

I finally worked out why my Macbook was randomly sleeping.

TL;DR - Skip to the end.

Clues

It only seemed to happen when I was working while sitting up on the bed with the computer on my lap. It seemed to be related to the position of the computer or possibly the lid. The computer would sleep. I’d wake it and login again. Continue. Sometimes it would happen once. Sometimes three times in ten minutes. Annoying. I assumed some hardware defect.

Installing Ruby with Homebrew and rbenv on Mac OS X Mountain Lion

Thu, 31 Jan 2013 17:38:00 +0100

Install Ruby with rbenv

I decided to setup Octopress on my Mac so that I can publish blog posts from either Windows or MacOS. I’m on OS X 10.8.2.

I tried to follow the Octopress instructions for installing Ruby but ran into a few problems.

Install Homebrew

Homebrew is a package manager for OS X. Open Terminal and install Homebrew with:

$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSkL raw.github.com/mxcl/homebrew/go)"

Once the installation is successful, you can run the following command to check your environment.