Since few weeks we have started internally use an interesting microblogging tool named Yammer. It works very similarly to Twitter, which means that you are posting very short posts, focusing on the stuff you are doing or working on. Unlike with Twitter, Yammer is company oriented and your posts will be visible ONLY to the [...]
Archive for the ‘lifehacks’ category
Sane version of Twitter
2008/11/18About time to break the silence
2008/11/16Several people asked what is going on with me: no blog posts for almost a month, litlle presence on Gtalk / MSN. It is simpler to answer this way that write same email over and over. Unfortunately the reason for being quiet is not that I am taking time off and enjoying myself somewhere in [...]
Project Management – in a Nutshell
2008/09/30A wonderful gem I found here: I remember telling a friend that being a project manager is a little like being a bouncer: where there’s a problem *here* and a door *there* and it’s your job to get the problem out the door. So For some a gentle gesture will do while others need a [...]
Easy access to log files
2008/08/25Here is the scoop: I need to provide access to multiple log files spread across multiple directories of multiple machines. For example – the JBoss log files and nohup.out, ATG log files, and so on – so that the testers can see what happened on server side when something looks fishy on front end. One [...]
The Things bliss
2008/08/24Finally – the new version of Things on iPhone can synchronize with Things on Mac desktop. It actually works – no strings attached. Assumed that: 1) the WiFi on iPhone is on 2) iPhone and Mac are on same network (so that Bonjour magic can work) 3) the Mac Things is running when you start [...]
OS-X near-death experience
2008/06/06It happened on Wednesday afternoon. I knew something is wrong with my MacBook Pro immediately – when I saw semi-dark screen, unresponsive machine – even mouse cursor was frozen – and heard fans blowing full speed, making the strange, clicking noise coming from inside almost disappear … OS-X does not freeze too often, but it [...]
Mac Gems: VisualHub
2008/06/01I had this discussion with a friend where we both found out that there is surprising amount of very useful little apps and tools in Mac’s software world that people use on daily basis and which are worth of spreading word about. Here is first of the programs I did not know about few months [...]
iMovie 08 and mystery of disappearing Project Library
2008/05/13As if the yesterday’s Firmware update issue was not enough, I had very strange experience with iMovie 08. Suddenly, for no obvious particular reason the user interface became very unresponsive, I was not able to select project in project library. Switching Event library and Project windows on or off stopped working. Windows were not redrawn [...]
Easy way how to transfer really big files
2008/04/29What does really big mean ? In my case few hundred megabytes, up to 1 GB. Clearly, too much for email attachments – most providers caps them at around 5-15 MB. Since we started doing screencasts, I need quite often to transfer work in progress – screen recordings, rendered MOV files between me and my [...]
A false "hang" of Finder
2008/04/24Yesterday, I have noticed interesting thing related to Finder and “beach ball of the death”. Suddenly, for no obvious reason, the top menu became unavailable and cursor changed to beachball every time I moved it there. The Bluetooth mouse stopped responding. Finder stopped responding. All symptoms as if Finder would hanging … The cause of [...]
