mac Disable App Nap to stop Spotify from stuttering For a while now I had an issue where the playback from Spotify was starting stuttering if it wasn't the active window. For no apparent reason. CPU and RAM where both ok and had a lot of free capacity. Apparently it seems to be connected to App Nap.
mac Clear dock icon cache When mac apps change their icons this sometimes does not trigger down to the Dock and the app switcher. This is also the case when you manually change the icon of an app. Run the two following commands to clear the icon cache of the dock: $ sudo find /private/var/
app Notifications from iTerm with content images As an addition to the last Native OSX notifications from iTerm with Triggers [http://blog.liplex.de/native-osx-notifications-from-iterm-with-triggers/] article there is also a solution to add content images to the notifications. We use the parameter -contentImage of terminal-notifier to display the image. To make it easier we adjust the script
app Native OSX notifications from iTerm with Triggers As an addition to the last Show notification when PHPUnit tests are done in iTerm [http://blog.liplex.de/show-notification-for-finished-phpunit-tests-in-iterm/] article there is also a solution to fire notifications from iTerm on certain triggers with native OSX notifications (instead of Growl). To do this just install the terminal-notifier gem with[
app Show notification when PHPUnit tests are done in iTerm I've got a few thousand unit tests in a project which I run with PHPUnit. Running them can take quite a while. I run them through and ant command though the Mac app iTerm. Running them takes quite a while. There is a nice way to be notified
app API Testing with Postman There are several apps on the market to test APIs with. A quite nice one I just stubled opon is called Postman [http://www.getpostman.com]. It's first of all a Chrome extension, but it's also already available as a Chrome App and therefore as a
