Apple will be judged by its ability to surprise us with the new, revelatory, and enabling – which have become less frequent.
Category Archive: Macs
Is Sierra’s Apple Help on its way out? If not, how does it differ from that documented 8 years ago for Leopard – when the current docs were last revised.
A detailed tutorial showing how you can time events, such as moving from one note to the next, using free and simple tools.
The idea was to create a single document which would get the best out of both apps. Here is my solution, and the file to download.
Another epic journey, this time to make an Installer package for my Blowhole command tool.
So how can you add proper help to your app? Amazingly, Xcode’s Help doesn’t even mention Help. It’s time to invest in Help Crafter.
This command tool can now write just the integer passed to it as a log message. This is ideal for instrumenting scripts and apps for analysis.
Several significant improvements to CSV export to work around issues when importing to Excel and others.
Browsing my log in Excel for the first time was a revelation of its potential. We have the tools – all we need is the imagination.
I’m sure there are more idiomatic or even efficient ways of doing it, but here is how I converted JSON data to CSV output.
The Eclectic Light Company 