Increasingly, I love that OS X seems to be designed to want to do what I tell it to. Don’t let me get started on the wonders of the mouse (two-finger scrolling, three-finger swiping, shrink/enlarge, screen zoom, and rotate). But in interfacing with this oh so lovely OS, there’s one thing that keeps coming back to annoy me: keyboard shortcuts.
Largely, I’ve learned those I find most useful. Minimize. Hide. Hide All. Preview. Open. Switch application (forwards and backwards). Application specific shortcuts. But always, several shortcuts were missing. Specifically, those to…
- maximize/restore the current window
- label files with specific colors
- show all windows
Then AppleScript and Butler came into my life…
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After irritation at e-mail list keepers who don’t respect unsubscribe requests, but who’s messages I don’t want to introduce into my spam filter, I hacked out this little mechanism to selectively bounce e-mail back to them. I never see it. They get bounces. My spam filter is unaldultered. Perfect.
I typically publish a single e-mail address which is hosted by a Linux server running qmail. I collect e-mail from diverse sources here and forward it to GMail, which I use mostly as a client, preferring my own domain(s) to the @gmail.com domain.
The solution is simple, effective, and might it be useful for you, too?
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General Notes
This document is intended for those with some familiarity with Linux and Debian, though anybody willing to read the documentation here-linked is welcome to sit back, relax, and enjoy learning a lot of nitty-gritty about Linux. Many of the drivers and hardware I’ve been able to get running are thanks to my custom kernel. There are lots of notes under that section which may be applicable to several devices, so please peruse that section
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