Mac Productivity with Quicksilver
Check out my sweet demo on productive you can be on your mac.
Update: Julius Eckert’s “SilverFlow, BezelHUD, and Showcase” Quicksilver UI plugins can now be found on his website.
Splunk Hack #1 – Charting Your OSX Battery Usage with Splunk
This is an easy-to-follow tutorial for charting battery usage on your Mac laptop with a small shell script and Splunk. Watching your battery charge is as exciting as watching paint dry, but analyzing it over time is pretty interesting. You may discover a few things about the software you run – like it eats your battery’s amps for desert.
A friend of mine, Sean Dick, showed me a version of this idea using Splunk on Linux and a program called ‘apci’. As I’m a Mac fanboy of sorts, I dug up a shell script for the Mac that will print out a single logfile-like line containing laptop battery information, including amp draw, amp-hours left, and more. It’s aptly named ‘battery’, and…
