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Mac OS X: Automating Tasks on Sleep

Written by Kodiak on 01/06/2014 — 27 Comments

I’ve been playing a lot lately with AppleScript and the Mac Automater app, both of which can do some pretty cool stuff. This gave me an idea: wouldn’t it be great if I could close certain applications when my commuters go to sleep? I have a handful of programs that I run on both my […]

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Hi, I’m a Mac! (or It’s a Unix System! I know this!)

Written by Kodiak on 10/02/2012 — Leave a Comment

I finally gave in and bought myself a Mac.  My five-year-old Toshiba laptop served me well, but with several pieces of the plastic case broken off and what appear to be memory issues slowing things down, I decided it was time for an upgrade.  At more than three times the price of a similarly specced Windows-based machine, getting […]

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I Can Has Macintosh

Written by Kodiak on 08/18/2008 — 1 Comment

After more than eight years of wanting a Mac for my office I finally got one last week. And what a nice one it is…a 17″ MacBook Pro laptop with a 2.5Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor, 4Gb of RAM, and a 250Gb hard drive. This thing flies, and the display quality is absolutely amazing. […]

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