VoodooPad 5 suits me

NewImageVoodooPad has, for years, intrigued me. A personal wiki. Sounds great but for some reason I always turned to web-based wiki solutions when experimenting in that realm of content creation.

I think it’s because when I think of a wiki, I think of collaborating with others. Honestly, most wikis I’ve ever started or edited usually don’t get much traction. Other people, at least in my world, just don’t bother making updates.

So, I finally realized, when VoodooPad 5 touched ground, that perhaps a client-side wiki really was for me. So, I downloaded the demo and what do you know? I started entering thoughts into it, and then kept on going. There’s something magical about the design of this app that makes creating pages easy and fun. The rate at which I’ve been filling my VoodooPad is a bit off the charts for my usual trial. So, I decided to pony up and buy a copy from the Mac App Store.

I’ve been pulling some entries out of nvALT and stuffing them into my VoodooPad as well. That’s a sure sign that I’m hooked. nvALT is my goto storage bucket but I sense a bit of a change coming on. That doesn’t mean I’m going to abandon nvALT by any means but I am going to invest much more energy into producing a personal wiki of epic proportions.

Permanently Unhide Library

Red Sweater Blog:

If you, or somebody you love, truly wants the Library folder to be forever visible in the Finder, a good trick is to add a shell script to do the deed as a Login item. Here are detailed instructions for achieving this.

Handy!

Bartender keeps the menubar organized

A recent post on MacStories talked about a new Mac app called Bartender. The app helps clean up the menubar by moving icons to a tucked away sub-menubar.

I have an 11″ MacBook Air so there’s not a whole lot of room to work with. However, I really like all the apps I run and I don’t want to quit them just because their icons take up a lot of space in the menubar.

Here’s my menubar now that I’m running Bartender. Notice the icon with three dots? That’s my Bartender icon. Actually, it is a replacement icon. Pretty cool that Bartender makes is easy to change the app icon. When I click on Bartender, a sub-menu appears with all my other menubar icons, tucked away till I need them.

Bartender Example

A week after using the Bartender demo, I bought it. If you buy it during the beta phase, you save some money so definitely keep that in mind if you try and like the app.

LaunchBar and 1Password

Looks like LaunchBar is about to make logging into pass protected sites a lot easier.

LaunchBar and 1Password

Why I don’t have comments on my site – Marco.org

Marco, taking an assjack to task:

Hi, I’m Marco, Apple-cult member and Instapaper author.