Monthly Archives: December 2009

Hiding the GrowlTunes menu bar icon

By Sharpy | Published: December 29, 2009
Update: You can now find this hint on macosxhints.com, along with some (hopefully) helpful comments. GrowlTunes is a nice little app included with the default Growl distribution. It watches iTunes and then whenever a song changes pops up a notification window giving details about the track, album art, your rating etc. Something that has really [...]
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A month of Vim (including Ruby, cron and GeekTool)

By Sharpy | Published: December 18, 2009
The general idea Teach myself Vim by using it exclusively for 1 month Write my first (somewhat) useful Ruby script to show me how long I have left (i.e. how long until the month is complete) Use GeekTool to display the regularly-updated results (via cron) on my desktop But why? I need to learn Vim, [...]
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