After the 25 minutes are done, you can do whatever you want for 5 minutes, before starting again. Basically, the way it works is that you set a timer for 25 minutes, and during that time you turn off all distractions (email, texts, slack, etc.) and just work on what you need to get done. I find it works really well and I've used it successfully on many projects, including my book. I'd describe it as a way of tricking yourself into being productive. If you've never tried it or heard of it before. This is a simple timer for the "Pomodoro Technique". It can also do fun things like record network traffic for inspection later. Your mileage will vary depending on how curious/paranoid you are about what the software on your machine is doing. LS will monitor all your network traffic and allow you to create blocking rules. Maybe it's built into OSX now too? Haven't bothered to look. There's probably something to this, considering Apple started incorporating a similar feature into ios. However, when it's dark you can really tell the difference between having a screen that is "blue" vs "yellow". I really can't speak to its effect on my sleep/health. Flux will make the colors of your screen mimic warmer colors like light bulbs or candles which should help. Apparently there's science that shows that "blue" light too late in the day messes with sleep because it tricks the body into thinking that it's daytime. I use this all the time to take a shot of an interface, add text and arrow overlays, and send it to a developer to make changes.įlux will change the color temperature of your screen to "match" the time of day. I love that they have a global shortcut to take a screenshot and immediately open up annotation tools on it. The killer feature of CloudApp is annotation. Then it seemed like a whole crop of tools came out like Kap, and Dropbox started adding support for watching for screen captures and automatically uploading them. I've had Snapz for screen recording etc forever, and that worked great. CloudApp is just a screenshot tool, and it's one of those things where I did not think I needed a new one. ![]() My friend Rouzbeh got this for me as a gift. This comes in extremely handy when juggling urls / cli commands, etc. Using a shortcut key, ClipMenu opens up a popup menu where you can select which of the previous 20 things you'd like to paste. If you're unfamiliar, the basic idea is that it will hold the last 20 or so items you've copied to your clipboard. If you haven't used a clipboard manager, do yourself a favor and try one out for a bit. If this stopped working I would notice very quickly. I can't remember life before using a clipboard manager. Looks like this app is no longer supported, so I might switch to another free alternative: This app give me a little coffee cup icon that I can use to toggle this behavior, but I mostly keep it turned on (preventing automatic sleep). Now I either will manually sleep, or when I want to lock my machine, I use a hot corner. I use caffeine to keep my machine from automatically sleeping. Over time I've disliked the automatic sleep feature of osx. ![]() ![]() It has a bunch of features to make this easier like sync. You just remember one "master" password (get it?) and to unlock the app so that it can fill in the unique for you. And when a site inevitably gets hacked, you know they won't be able to use that email/password combination anywhere else. 1Password will help you create an individual, unique, secure password for each site - that you don't have to remember. This works well enough, but using a password manager is a whole other level. Like if the password was for Amazon, I would take the second and third letters and surround the base password: mu78xDfa. ![]() For example I had a "base" password like u78xDf and depending on the site I would add onto it. I used to use an "algorithm" for passwords on various sites. Some of them might be useful to other people, so here are the ones that I use and some thoughts about each of them: 1Password Over time, I've acquired a good number of apps and they all help me in various ways. Dry.ly What's On The Menu? Recommended OSX Menu Bar Apps July 25th, 2018Ī number of times after giving a talk, someones has commented about all the icons I have in my OSX menu bar.
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