Tag: TEXTFILE

About a week ago I posted about an AppleScript that you can use to create a new text file in the Finder folder that you are looking at. I was a little bit surprised by the reaction; some people thought it was a great idea, while others thought it ridiculous and couldn't imagine why anyone would ever want to do that. Well, if you fall into the latter camp, you might as well skip the rest of this ...

When switching from one operating system to another, sometimes it's not obvious how to do something that was straightforward to do on the previous OS. As someone who switched from Windows to a Mac a couple of years ago, I was able to find easy solutions to most of the things that I originally struggled with. But there is one irritant that has stuck around for the past two years, and though I've ...

Here's an idea: instead of dealing with lots of different programs, formats and files, why not keep all of your data – contact info, calendar, the draft of your dissertation – in one mammoth text file? That's what O'Reilly's Giles Turnbull is doing, and it actually doesn't seem like that crazy an idea, especially if you work on multiple machines. You only have to worry about ...