Growl is the ultimate notification system for OS X. A lot of apps support and use growl to notify the user about any status updates. You can either buy the app from the app store for $3.99 or build and install from source. This page explains how to build …

When I right click on a file on my mac, I started seeing multiple apps being listed in the “Open with…” menu.

Typically this list of apps are the apps which can open the file. Seeing the same application listed multiple times in the “Open With…” list doesn’t harm …

I upgraded the OS of my mac mini to Mountain Lion this weekend. Unfortunately it messed up all my python settings. When I ssh’d into the mac mini I saw an ugly python error. The gist of which was the following -

“ImportError: No module named virtualenvwrapper.hook_loader”

Basically I …

Did you know Gnu Screen came default with your macs? I did not know that!!
I wanted to run one of my python scripts remotely on my mac mini to detect duplicates in my image library. As this would take some time, I didn’t want to leave the session …

Setup Git on mountain lion to use github to save your projects

Continuing on my series, today we will be setting up git on our newly upgraded Mountain Lion.
Go ahead and download the latest version of git from here. Go ahead and install it. Next go and open an …