OS X

Homebrew: List packages and what uses them

22 September 2014
OS X Homebrew

For anyone that uses Homebrew a lot, its very easy to amasse many casks (installed packages) and never quite know which ones are still needed. I did some googling and found a really interesting blog post by Mark H. Nichols about listing all brew dependencies.

How to setup reminders on OS X

01 July 2010
Quicksilver OS X mac Apple

I just wanted to quickly setup a reminder on my mac (in this case that Star Trek was on in ten minutes - I know, I'm a geek!). It dawned on me that I didn't know a way to do this off the top of my head.

After a little Googling and trial and error, I found that the awesome Quicksilver could execute timed events!

It's a little convoluted, however here is the process...