OS X Activity monitor

Just been having a play with activity monitor, one thing that I like about the Windows Task Manager is that it has a separate tab for Open Application vs Processes.

Well I just discovered that there is a drop down which you can select which processes to view; one of them being "Windowed Processes" which then just lists the Applications that are open, brilliant!

Things email integration

Wonderful things are a foot; I have discovered email integration with Things. There are two scripts;

1) Send email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/MailToThings - This allows you to send an email to yourself with subject line "Add to things" and a task will be created in your Things inbox on your Mac with the message body added as the task in Things. Brilliant! This is going to be very useful when I want to set myself a task at work or forward an email that I want as a task; I can change the subject to "Add to things" and it will be waiting for me in my Things inbox when I get home, brilliant! It just requires downloading an AppleScript and adding a rule to to Mail; follow the link it's all explained.

2) Add email to Things https://culturedcode.com/things/wiki/index.php/AppleScript:Create_new_tasks_from_Mail_messages%2C_adding_Growl_notification Similar to the first one, but this is for when you receive an email that you want to make a task out of (which is a regular thing), instead of manually adding to Things you can now select the message(s) and run an AppleScript and each of the messages will be added to the Things inbox as a new Task, with the subject as the task, and message body as the notes of the task. Brilliant! It even gives you a notification message when it creates the task - you just need to install Growl (notification app) you can download that from the App Store here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/growl/id467939042?mt=12&ign-mpt=uo%3D4.

Loving Things, and love this email integration, brilliant! :-)

Where are my sent email

1. Sent items from yahoo were not appearing under sent items in mail.app or via mail.yahoo.co.uk. By setting the preferences on the yahoo account to "save drafts on server" the emails then appeared under sent items on mac and yahoo.

2. Sent items on the mac not appearing on the iPhone and iPad under sent. I found the mail.app on os x is storing the mail in "sent messages" rather than "sent". On the mac these two folders are merged under sent. On the iPhone and iPad you can find these other sent items under "sent messages" under the folders, so they are there and accessible, phew!


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How to change email address on Flickr

I just spent several frustrating minutes on flickr trying to change my email address, as somehow it had my work email address as my registered email address... Its very un-obvious, but a quick google gave me this gem;

http://www.flickr.com/account/prefs/email/

You can add and remove email addresses, and change which one is the primary email address, done!