Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Author: Christopher Scott

  • Quick Tip: add weather forecast to iCal

    Here’s a fun one, courtesy of hints.macworld.com – be sure to subscribe to the iCal, as per the robg comment, as this will keep it up-to-date… Show daily weather forecasts in iCal as all-day events

  • Useful Tool of the Week: VCF-to-CSV Converter

    This is one of those fringe-type cases, but I recently need to help someone get their contacts from one system to another. I found this on line tool, vCard to LDIF/CSV Converter, that made the job simple. All I had to do after that was to open the resulting CSV file into my favorite text editor (TextWrangler…

  • Disable Mac OS X window zoom effect

    I’m not a fan of cutesy transition effects that essentially do nothin more than slow me down. I found that I can speed up Mac OS X’ UI by disabling the window zoom effect seen whenever opening or closing a window. All it took was this one-line command from the Terminal: defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled…