I don't understand the inner workings of iCloud or PhotoStream. What I do understand is that every photo from Aperture (and maybe iPhoto) that is pending sync with PhotoStream is duplicated to a folder in the User Library directory. That means if I, say accidentally, mark 3000 photos for sync to PhotoStream, then I waste 83GB of a 250GB SSD.
Of course, this happened on the same day that John Siracusa talked at length about the evils of filling up a boot volume.
I'm really having fun with the new Hazel 3. Not only does it have a number of new rules and actions, it's performance is now good enough to work on large collections of files.
Here's a file archive rule I made that scans all files and folder in my Dropbox account. When I set a file or folder label color to yellow (my archive label) Hazel automatically moves it to my deep freeze archive on my networked Drobo.
There is a huge amount of writing about the world of Mac and Apple. My sensibilities tell me that most of it is either juvenile, poorly researched, poorly written, or cut and paste from another source. But there are good sources for information and news on this formerly niche topic.
I looked back over all of my favorited, Instapapered, and Pinboarded1 news articles to see if there was a common theme.
For image editing, I'm an Acorn user. Not a power user, just a user. So I am especially appreciative of Gus Mueller's Acorn tutorials in the Acorn Documentation. For example, easily creating drop shadows. Gus is the developer of Acorn so he should know all of the cool tricks.
Quick tip: Occasionally, a disk will refuse to eject from my iMac with the eject key or disk utility. The best way I've found to force the disk out is to use the terminal.
drutil tray eject
Ever since Dropbox added photo download from iOS, I’ve switched off PhotoStream on my iPhone. I got tired of stupid or boring photos showing up in the stream. I decided I would configure the PhotoStream through Aperture. I had good intentions, but Dropbox has slurped over a hundred photos off and I have yet to add any to Aperture. It’s just too easy now to download and never add to Aperture
I'm glad ReadNow was resurrected as Read Later.
It's now featured on the MAS too. I've gushed about it in the past and it's still one of my favorite apps.
I've been pleased to see some nice third party tools for extended the iOS AirPlay technology. AirParrot streams a Mac display to an AppleTV and Reflection streams iOS displays to a Mac. These are good starts but are not feature complete. AirParrot, for example, does not stream the audio to the AppleTV.
This technology is a small step towards the iOS computer. Forget docks. Forget adapters and USB cables. The ideal way to use an iPad as a computer, is to walk up to my desk, sit down and have the iPad display mirrored to my main screen and the Bluetooth keyboard auto-pair.
This is a nice overview and includes perspectives from two awesome developers.
I'd still love to know how bad this is going to be for AppleScript and shell/python/ruby/perl scripts
It's a day to celebrate here at Macdrifter.com. One of my most trusted applications just received a huge update.
Hazel 3 is out today.
In case you're wondering, I've posted a couple times about what Hazel can do. Pretty much everything.
