I’ve operated a [Weather Underground](http://www.wunderground.com/) [Personal Weather Station](http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/about.asp) (PWS) [[KMEBERWI7](http://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KMEBERWI7#history)] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do an Alfred↔PWS mashup. My personal requirements were quite modest: – 5 reading history (including most current) – Ability to copy all the current day’s… Continue reading
Post Category → Apple
Change The Default “Shell…” Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it’s great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use [iTerm 2](http://www.iterm2.com/#/section/home) when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at RStudio provide a handy `Shell`… menu item off the `Tools`… Continue reading
Show Mac App Store Downloads Folder (and more!)
@mroesch asked how to find the “Downloads” folder for the Mac App Store. Apple changed this from the time I posted the one and only app I ever did to MAS (a while ago). So, here’s how to do it now. First, open up iTerm or Terminal and enter: defaults write com.apple.appstore ShowDebugMenu -bool true… Continue reading
Security & Privacy Of Mountain Lion’s Dictation Feature
With Gizmodo doing a post hyping Mountain Lion’s new dictation feature it’s probably a good time to note that folks in regulated environments or who just care about security & privacy a bit more than others should not enable or use this feature for the dictation of sensitive information. From Apple’s own warning on the… Continue reading
Tweet From Mountain Lion Notification Center
If this feature was in Mountain Lion Developer Previews prior to revision 4, I didn’t notice it, but you can now tweet directly from the Notification Center “pane”. You first need to make sure said feature is enabled in System Preferences (note the use of the “old” Notification Center icon in the preference pane icon… Continue reading