![]() ![]() 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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