A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way

• How to unhide your Library in Lion — chflags nohidden ~/Library. Yay.
• Making desktop web apps with Automator. All kinds of goodness in here.
• BBEdit 10 is out. Purchased.
• Marked seems like a super useful companion to BBEdit.
• Billguard is now free-er.

• Firefox is feeling increasingly bloated, maybe because I’ve got a bunch of plugins jammed in. But trying out Camino(TidBITS%3A+Mac+News+for+the+Rest+of+Us)&utm_content=Google+Reader on the Mac, seems cleaner and lighter.
• Shuffler.FM. Eh, streaming music just doesn’t work for me. My primary listening time is while driving and I need music that I can put on an ipod or cd. When I am at an actual computer I am too busy doing other things. But I like music discovery tools and guides, I just don’t want them bound into streaming.
• GIT for the lazy. Perfect for me.
• Terminal tips and tricks for OSX and in general SuperUser seems helpful.
• I want to love WiseStamp but I don’t get email addins that assume you are only sending email from a browser. iPhone? iPad? OSX Mail? How can I commit to this thing if I can’t use it consistently? Sigh.
• I’m super late to Windows Live Sync but it is very useful. I do have a quibble with the naming, once upon a time MSFT was confident enough in its products to give them simple iconic names — Word, Excel, Windows. The company seems to have lost its confidence in products and jams these crazy names on them to try to ride on the coattails of other products. Mistake.

Not sure why, the Mac Airbook SSD was reporting full.  Tried to delete a bunch of apps, nothing seemed to help.  I kind of wonder if it isn’t a time machine problem. I don’t have great OSX intuition and so an examination of the directory structure and process list didn’t really mean much to me.

Decided to just reinstall the OS.  40G free again.  we’ll see what happens.  Rennie pointed me towards The Omni Group – OmniDiskSweeper – Download or Tinkertool as decent utilities to use if it happens again.