Apple ships OS X without ls set to use colors (and sans the useful ll alias). For those of us who have grown to love the instant delineation between directories, symlinks, and files this is an inconvenience. Luckily, adding this is quite simple. Place the following into your ~/.profile and you’re all set. To change [...]

Awhile back I started getting annoyed at the process of manually moving files around after downloading, so I decided to investigate one of Apple’s more hidden features…Folder Actions! For those who don’t know, folder actions are configurable scripts that can be attached to folders and run whenever the contents of the folder change. They can [...]