1Password. Mac + iOS + Dropbox Sync = Ace.

Posted on April 26, 2011 by antbrown

For your security you have hard to remember, different passwords for each online account, right? I never did, it was too hard to remember them all.

Enter stage-left 1Password, the essential auto-form filler for Mac. Support for iPhone, iPad and syncs through Dropbox.

So I get 1Password to generate a new password each time I setup a new online account, it saves it for me too, so when I come back to the website I just hit a key combo (mine’s cmd+\) and it logs me in automatically.

Set it up with Dropbox and you can login to any website while you’re out, in a secure browsing session. or just copy and paste the login info into mobile Safari.

It’s pretty cool, you should check it out.

CodeBox gets Syntax Highlighting for PHP

Posted on March 24, 2011 by antbrown

… and over 100 other languages.

CodeBox is the code snippet management tool for Mac. Quickly create a tag/group database of code snippets and use the shortcut keys to quickly paste in snippets while you work.

Get it on the App Store here

Version 1.2 also gets TextMate theme support, which makes using all of these possible:

TextMate User Submitted Themes

Using TextExpander for Code Snippets

Posted on June 9, 2010 by antbrown

TextExpander from Smile on My Mac is a text replacement tool, where you type in a short code and it replaces it with a pre-defined snippet. I’ve found I don’t use snippets a lot in Web Development because once I’ve done the initial setup it’s all custom coding. However I’ve found a few places where it has come in handy when developing Zend Framework applications: Zend Form, Zend Db Table and Row.

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Can’t delete mail in Mail

Posted on February 7, 2008 by antbrown

This damn near drove me insane for a few months. However I never looked for a solution, never read the manual (who does?) and never asked anyone. I just silently stared at my email that couldn’t be deleted…

Until today.

Finally I figured you can click on Mailbox and then Rebuild and it fixes everything up just fine! Apparently it also fixes a lot of other bits and pieces that can go wrong in Apple Mail.

Another reason you could be getting all these deleted messages hanging around is if you’ve inadvertently pressed Cmd+L. This turns on “Show Deleted Messages” which you probably don’t want.

Hope that helps,

Clear DNS cache on your Mac in Terminal

Posted on July 2, 2007 by antbrown

I know this is posted all over the Internet, but I keep forgetting it and someone may find it useful if they can’t find it anywhere else. It basically flushes your dns cache so your computer is forced to request the name server information afresh the next time you make a request to any URL.

This is especially helpful if you are a web developer and you’re mucking around with name server configurations and you can’t quite figure out why things aren’t updating.