OS X software, plus a question
I've just discovered the excellent Mac OS X software thread over at Something Awful, and it's proved to have a large number of pretty-interesting looking things in it.
First thing I've discovered is SynergyKM - an OS X GUI for my beloved Synergy. Playing with the command-line version, plus manually writing configuration files, is a little tedious, and this is a really elegant solution that integrates into System Preferences. Apparently this project is merging with the main Synergy tree soon. Although I haven't actually tried it out yet, I imagine the functionality is the same as the command-line version (unfortunately, this means OS X still doesn't work with features like screensaver synchronization, and advanced clipboard functionality). For other operating system users, there's the cross-platform QuickSynergy, which is a little lacking in functionality, but works for me for setting up temporary connections on Linux systems (the APT package name is
The second piece of software I've installed is Genius. Essentially, this is just a flashcard program one could use for study. However, it's very well-written - it's more than just a software implementation of handwritten flashcards. It's based on psychological studies of memory and basically seems like a very effective way of creating a mental map of list A to list B. I'm going to try using it in future German vocab tests.
And a question I have for any Mac experts: does anybody know the best way of creating something similar to a shortcut in Windows?
What I want to do is have an icon that can be dragged onto the Desktop, Dock, or launched from Quicksilver, that basically runs a command in the terminal, then closes the terminal. Windows allows you to this just by making a shortcut to the command. The closest I've been able to get is making a shell script and creating a symlink to it. :(
First thing I've discovered is SynergyKM - an OS X GUI for my beloved Synergy. Playing with the command-line version, plus manually writing configuration files, is a little tedious, and this is a really elegant solution that integrates into System Preferences. Apparently this project is merging with the main Synergy tree soon. Although I haven't actually tried it out yet, I imagine the functionality is the same as the command-line version (unfortunately, this means OS X still doesn't work with features like screensaver synchronization, and advanced clipboard functionality). For other operating system users, there's the cross-platform QuickSynergy, which is a little lacking in functionality, but works for me for setting up temporary connections on Linux systems (the APT package name is
quicksynergy).The second piece of software I've installed is Genius. Essentially, this is just a flashcard program one could use for study. However, it's very well-written - it's more than just a software implementation of handwritten flashcards. It's based on psychological studies of memory and basically seems like a very effective way of creating a mental map of list A to list B. I'm going to try using it in future German vocab tests.
And a question I have for any Mac experts: does anybody know the best way of creating something similar to a shortcut in Windows?
What I want to do is have an icon that can be dragged onto the Desktop, Dock, or launched from Quicksilver, that basically runs a command in the terminal, then closes the terminal. Windows allows you to this just by making a shortcut to the command. The closest I've been able to get is making a shell script and creating a symlink to it. :(