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Tracking HipChat Activity with AppleScript
The Problem Chat tools are great for being able to work remotely, at least until you get bombarded by one chat after another. I’ve often wondered if I could come up with a way to track who my chats are with and how much time was spent chatting with each person. My initial attempts involved…
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Background on Mac OS X Lion Gets Stuck on Gray Linen Background and Menu Bar is Black
I’ve been having this problem intermittently when plugging in and unplugging my external monitor. I found a fix to the black menu bar that involved going into System Preferences->Desktop & Screen Saver and toggling the “Translucent Menu Bar” setting. However, my backgrounds were still the gray linen background. Upon further searching for that system, I…
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Script to Change the Title of Your Terminal Window
I decided to create a small bash script to change the title of my current terminal window in bash on my Mac: change_title: #!/bin/bash echo -ne “33]0;” $* “07” The script then runs as: change_title Your title goes here.